Has anyone found a variable that will output the zoom scale in plane text? I would like to display the current zoom setting as 1/2 mile, 1/4 mile, etc rather than having the zoom bar.

Anyone have any ideas?

I would love this function too - personally I find it much easier to read and understand, than the zoom bar (which I found small and hard to read).

I'll keep searching, but so far I haven't seen anything that looks promising in the UI files, or in any other iGo skins.

I've been looking through the executable and found two possibilities. I'll test them in the morning.

There is a "ZOOM" command/variable, which I'm going to try accessing as map.ZOOM (based on the zoombar being map.ZOOMCONTROL).

There is also a "nZoomLevel" variable. I'll see if either of them produce any output. It's possible that even if we find a variable, it won't give us a friendly output, just a relative integer (like the heading does). Although that might be good enough, if you don't need the actual scale, just a relative number.

Either way I'll let you know what I find.

Well I tried those variables this morning, and it didn't pitch any errors, but it didn't display anything either.

This means that either the variables I guessed at don't actually exist, or that the textmodel I used is incorrect for the type of data in the variables.

I'll test again with different textmodels and see if anything turns up. I'm sure there must be a way to display something, it's just a matter of finding the right variable and matching textmodel.

Cheers!

Thanks for the update Stephanie, I'll keep you posted on my success as well.

I'm going to give up on this one.. I've tried every variable I can think of, every combination of textmodel I can think of, and nothing comes up at all.

At this stage, I don't think there is a way to access the data. I know the data is in there, of course, but there doesn't seem to be a way to display it other than the zoombar.

Of all the variables I tried, I thought these had the most potential:

map.zoom_level_in_map

map.zoom_level_in_navigate

map.zoomlevel

Unfortunately none of the textmodels revealed any data for me, nor any of the text methods. I have a feeling that the data is in some format that there's no text method for - the zoom is a very 'smooth' zoom, instead of large discrete steps, so it's probably a hex or binary thing...like 8 bits or 16 bits or something along those lines.

Thinking of the way the zoombar reacted, it didn't just change text headings over a fixed-width scale, but the scale indicators changed size and the text headings moved around accordingly - so perhaps the best we could have hoped for would be a hex readout, like 1A or 4F or whatever...

So I'm giving up - conceding defeat on this one. Same as with the car heading in degrees - for now I think it simply doesn't exist in there in a format we can use.

edited to add:

If I am correct, this is something that the iGo programmers would have to add - either a textmodel_hex model, or add a full_text method to the appropriate variable. Ditto for car heading, we have navigate.car_heading but the programmers would have to add a .full_text method that would perform the (simple) maths to turn the integer into a degrees readout.