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Marvin Hlavac
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 Posted - 21 mai 2005 : 01:38:18
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@ Dumpper - I know this is just your first "Alpha" version. You love this kind of stuff and I know you will not stop till it is just right. We have something nice to look forward to ;-)
@ Bob - I just opened ResHacker to check this. ResHacker will only use images from *.exe, *.dll, *.res, and *.bmp. These images are very small, so even the *.bmp files are only about 4 or 5 KB in size. Nothing to worry about, really.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
Edited by - Marvin Hlavac on 21 mai 2005 01:49:29 |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 21 mai 2005 : 11:09:50
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Now you see it...
...and now you don't ;-)
Justin <weatheryoko> on the previous page of this thread shares with us an excellent idea how we can hide geo-features like cemeteries, airports, lakes, parks, etc.
While driving I like to keep my display screen as simple, clean, and uncluttered as possible. I keep display of POI's turned off, and now I can do the same with geo-features.
POI's I only turn on when I need them. It would be excellent if we could do the same with geo-features, if we could easily turn them on and turn them off within Display Options.
And now perhaps the only remaining item on my list of serious "problems" with iGuidance is the 3D road width issue. When that is solved driving will be a pleasure again just like it used to be in version 1.1.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
Edited by - Marvin Hlavac on 21 mai 2005 12:03:21 |
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justintime
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Posted - 22 mai 2005 : 19:19:40
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Question for you guys:
As you already know, iG will display a bar at the bottom with the name of the street you are currently on. Also, it will display a bar at the top with the name of the street for your next turn. These horizontal bars are 'brown' in color during the daytime view. Not my favorite, but at least the do contrast with the background. OK, now to the point...
In NIGHT mode, the bars are the exact same color as the background (blue). This does not stand out at all, and the problem is it can be confused with the name of a horizontal road across the bottom of the screen, etc. Can this be changed via teme.ini/ctheme.ini files? |
Edited by - justintime on 22 mai 2005 19:21:45 |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 22 mai 2005 : 20:08:13
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I don't have 2.0 installed right now, but I wonder if this is it:
; screen titlebar color
STC=255,255,0 0,0,255
;STC=255,255,0 0,0,255
255,255,0 is yellow color, and 0,0,255 is blue. Try to change these values in your theme.ini and let us know if it does anything. Just for testing purposes try this code (it could turn the bars green):
; screen titlebar color
STC=0,255,0 0,255,0
;STC=0,255,0 0,255,0
The above doesn't do anything in 2.1, but that would be expected. We will just have to wait for iNav to officially release their version of CTHEME.INI so we can start again having more fun ;-)
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada
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EDITED: Well, while playing with it I realized the above code doesn't do what you need. However, the above code changes the color of the bar that appears on the top of the map window when you pan (move) the map. It also changes the color of the text. We may have some fun with it now ;-) If you use ResHacker, you may go to View > FindText, and then search for "Panning". You will locate the text which you could customize any way you wish ;-)
Before & After pictures:
Here is the code to change the bar to green and the font to black:
; screen titlebar color
STC=0,0,0 0,255,0
;STC=255,255,0 0,0,255
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 23 mai 2005 : 15:12:49
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See More Roads
; max funclass to draw @ zoom level
MDFC=5 5 5 5 5 4 3 3 2 2 1
;MDFC=5 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1
The code above tells iGuidance which road types (and geo-features) to display on our laptops or PDA’s. If you use the exact above code in your CTHEME.INI nothing much will change. However, you may modify the values if you wish to see more roads at higher zoom levels.
The code has 11 digits representing 11 zoom levels. The numbers 5 mean that we could potentially see all 5 different road classes at a particular zoom level. Number 1 will allow us to see only major highways.
I changed all values to "5" to see what road types iGuidance would let me view at different zoom levels:
; max funclass to draw @ zoom level
MDFC=5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
;MDFC=5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Following are before & after screenshots at three different zoom levels:
Before & After @ 2km Zoom Level:
Before & After @ 10km Zoom Level:
Before & After @ 80km Zoom Level:
I spent several hours today driving with this modification and I see no negative effect on the performance of iGuidance, but I suspect slower computers may suffer since we are really asking iGuidance to display more roads (and also more parks, lakes, rivers, etc). However, this function is available should anyone wish to experiment with it. I personally find it useful and the code is going to stay in my CTHEME.INI file. Only 2D-view is affected as far as I can tell, and that is just fine. There is really no need for this in 3D-view mode.
PDA users: I haven't tested this one tweak on a PPC because I suspect it may just unnecessarily slowdown an average PDA. But I may be wrong. If someone tries it please let us know.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
Edited by - Marvin Hlavac on 12 juin 2005 03:56:56 |
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wysocki
USA
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Posted - 25 mai 2005 : 17:40:20
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| Does the new ctheme.ini provide a way to increase the fonts on the dialog boxes? For example, if I click on a POI the popup dialog box font describing the POI is almost impossible to read on my 7" screen. |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 25 mai 2005 : 18:03:04
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The *.ini will not do it, but I looked at iguidance.exe in ResHacker and while it appears to be possible to manipulate the size of dialog boxes and the size of buttons within the dialog boxes and also the font size of the buttons, I'm afraid I don't know at this moment how to increase the font size of the particular item that interests you, which is the actual POI information within the dialog box. But I haven't really had much time to explore this. I will play with it more hopefully tomorrow.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
Edited by - Marvin Hlavac on 25 mai 2005 22:59:15 |
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justintime
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Posted - 26 mai 2005 : 00:22:31
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Awesome find Marvin! I love the new settings for MDFC variable.
If I use all 5's, iG crashes at 1500ft zoom level. (using iG 2.0) I have to use this, but it looks great anyways, a huge improvement.
MDFC=5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3
(not that its too useful, but it looks great at higher zoom levels :)
Thanks for maintaining this thread. Keep it alive! |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 26 mai 2005 : 00:50:48
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;-) Thanks for the feedback. Actually there would likely be no difference between my "5, 5, 5, 5...." and your MDFC=5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 since iGuidance will not display smaller roads at the extreme zoom levels anyway. But I just put #5 everywhere out of pure laziness, and since it didn't crash in my setup I left it like that. Your settings though may be more appropriate.
I do find it "somewhat useful"  As long as it doesn't slow the program down I would recommend it.
More 2D Road Width Fine-Tuning
I just spent some time fine-tuning 2D road width mainly because I wanted to see more difference between the grey color roads of different class. (I also wanted to make every road class as narrow as possible.) This is what I ended up with:
Before & after pictures:
Bellow is my code if someone wishes to do something similar. The values in red are the relevant values to change. Enter numbers from 1 to 5 and see what it does at different zoom levels.
; road pen width in pixels @ 100ft FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW0=3 3 3 4 3
;RPW0=2 2 2 2 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 200ft FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW1=2 2 2 3 2
;RPW1=2 2 2 2 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 500ft FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW2=2 2 2 2 1
;RPW2=2 2 2 2 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 1000ft FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW3=2 2 2 2 1
;RPW3=2 2 2 2 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 2500ft FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW4=1 1 1 2 1
;RPW4=2 2 2 2 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 1mi FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW5=1 1 1 2 1
;RPW5=2 2 2 2 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 2mi FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW6=2 2 1 1 1
;RPW6=2 2 1 1 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 5mi FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW7=2 2 1 1 1
;RPW7=2 1 1 1 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 10mi FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW8=1 1 1 1 1
;RPW8=2 1 1 1 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 25mi FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW9=1 1 1 1 1
;RPW9=2 1 1 1 1
; road pen width in pixels @ 100mi FC1-2-3-4-5
RPW10=1 1 1 1 1
;RPW10=1 1 1 1 1
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
Edited by - Marvin Hlavac on 12 juin 2005 03:50:17 |
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wysocki
USA
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Posted - 26 mai 2005 : 20:35:07
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| Great detective work, Marvin. Looks like iNav is now trying to catch up in the PR game but it's a shame they couldn't just work closer with the carpc community of tweakers to make this into the #1 nav system on the market. Anyway, I'm really happy with my street name sizes in 2.1 now, BUT... how about city names? Any way to change their font/size? |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 26 mai 2005 : 21:23:15
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quote:
Originally posted by wysocki
...it's a shame they couldn't just work closer with the carpc community of tweakers to make this into the #1 nav system on the market...
It is hard to comment on that because we really don't know what plans for their product the developer has. But, yes, I agree that on the surface it may at times appear that some user communities are not being taken as seriously as they would perhaps deserve.
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Originally posted by wysocki
... how about city names? Any way to change their font/size?
I haven't come across a setting like that yet. There appears to be a way to change the zoom level threshold at which city names appear, but I haven't felt the need to change that. I wish there we were able to change the threshold for street names. I'd like to try if it would make sense to still see street names at 2km (1 mile) level.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
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zebelkhan
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Posted - 26 mai 2005 : 21:55:48
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This is my first post but I have been reviewing the threads for a little while now and thanks to the members, especially Marvin, have been able to "upgrade" my iGuidance 2.0 quite a bit. So thank you!
I do have a question for Marvin though. In your post above regarding
"more 2D Road Width Fine Tuning" you have two occurances of line RPW10=1 1 1 1 1. Should one of them be RPW11=1 1 1 1 1?
Thanks.
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6899 Posts |
Posted - 26 mai 2005 : 22:14:50
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Hi Zebelkhan,
Welcome to the forums!
Good catch, thanks! The bottom three lines of the code didn't belong there at all. It got there by an accident ;-) I was experimenting with trying to add more zoom levels and in the process of doing that I changed code for a few other features (incorrectly for this particular feature I see now).
I just edited the code above. Thanks again.
Marvin Hlavac - Toronto, Canada |
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wiredwrx2
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Posted - 01 juin 2005 : 07:01:00
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Well, perhaps my luck is just bad. Seeing how easy the hack was with IG, and as soon as Marvin said that ctheme worked with 2.1, I went and ordered it and gotr rid of Routis. Well, the place I ordered from said they were waiting for 2.1.1, the DVD version. Of course, I wanted the older versions, but I got the DVD version 2.1.1 Tried the ctheme, and it doesn't seem to be working. Has anyone had any success with version 2.1.1.
Michael
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Notsure
Canada
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Posted - 03 juin 2005 : 00:42:29
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quote:
Originally posted by wiredwrx2
Well, perhaps my luck is just bad. Seeing how easy the hack was with IG, and as soon as Marvin said that ctheme worked with 2.1, I went and ordered it and gotr rid of Routis. Well, the place I ordered from said they were waiting for 2.1.1, the DVD version. Of course, I wanted the older versions, but I got the DVD version 2.1.1 Tried the ctheme, and it doesn't seem to be working. Has anyone had any success with version 2.1.1.
Michael
I just received version 2.1 and I'm about to order my free ($9 US I think) 2.1.1 upgrade. Wanna swap? I have the 3CD version of 2.1 which I received last week from BuyGPSNow with my BT-338. |
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