Garmin MobilePC Hacking

**ThunderStick** · 09-18-2008, 06:03 PM

I kind of like the way it looks right now...
But hey if we can change it we will...
Great idea...

**bandung_steve** · 09-23-2008, 02:12 AM

TYP files editor at
http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/editor.cgi
It will allow you to modify colors, orientation flags, line widths, localization strings,draw own bitmaps (editor,change object names,easy poi editing.
Right TYP makes maps in GPS or GMPC a lot more readable!

Language.gtt in text folder can be changed too like:.....

hxxp://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GarminTextTranslationv1.xsd" >
<hdr>
<lang>Indonesia</lang>
<desc>Indonesia</desc>
<type>Primary</type>
<sort>0</sort>
<cpage>1252</cpage>
<pnum>006-D1115-00</pnum>
<ver>1.00</ver>
</hdr>
<str>
<tag>TXT_LANG_ID_STR_M</tag>
<txt>Indonesia</txt>
</str>
.........etc

Camera manager by Ash10 at http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/module...Forums&t=43111

Garmin Voice Utility by Ash10 again at
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/module...Forums&t=52344

Now , thanks for OSK and stuff from Monkeyracer,ThunderStick,El Camino, and Pbarrette

Love it

**bandung_steve** · 09-23-2008, 02:37 AM

I forgot to mention one thing Animated gps batmobile icon by aarrgghh for your GMPC vehicle collection
http://www.instructables.com/id/anim...atmobile-icon/
in case you wanna create more

Fully satisfied

**pbarrette** · 09-24-2008, 12:59 AM

Excellent!

I'm glad that someone is able to use this program, as I really don't have the time or the artistic ability to do any serious reskinning. My hope with the release of this tool was that it would be able to help at least one person to skin Mobile PC to their liking.

I also thought it was great that at least some interface skinning could be done simply by editing some PNGs without having to muck about in the EXE with ResHack or a hex editor the way most other programs (eg Iguidance) require.

I was actually considering a GUI interface that would show PNG thumbnails along with their center point and GIR defined offset and allow exporting and replacement of single PNGs as well as center point changes. I don't really have the time to do that at the moment, so I published what I know about the GIR format and the source code to my simple app. If someone wants to run with it, please do.

pb

**kevincop130** · 04-22-2009, 11:44 PM

Now if we can figure out how to change the font, that would be very nice...
LOL

**reece146** · 05-14-2009, 04:14 PM

Anyone have some ideas on how to change the font used? There's nothing obvious in the reg keys.

**bdmfckr** · 07-25-2009, 01:29 PM

is it possible to resize GMPC window smaller than it originally is?

**ws6vert** · 07-31-2009, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by bdmfckr

is it possible to resize GMPC window smaller than it originally is?

Unfortunately, no

**Deric** · 08-22-2009, 01:41 AM

Originally Posted by bdmfckr

is it possible to resize GMPC window smaller than it originally is?

You might talk to the author for igo-Mysize. He may be able to do something similar for GMPC.

http://code.google.com/p/igo-mysize/

Since I have a 4:3 screen set to 800x600 I put Garmin in WS format (dbl-click window) which allowed it to embed nicely in a 800x480 window.