Thread: UK Speed camera detector, for any PC with GPS

Originally Posted by pottillo

Program give me run time error 13 whaen i hit start after loaded database and connected gps.

Thanks, I think I know what that is, corrected in next version.

Originally Posted by g_attrill

I had a quick sneak into the RoadAngel's update program and it appears to retrieve it's data in a simple XML format. Unfortunately I don't own a RoadAngel and am not the sort of person to "test" their software to see how it works!

If somebody with a RoadAngel could run an update while logging the HTTP traffic using Ethereal it would be most useful:
http://www.ethereal.com/download.html

Gareth

Done this a while ago using HTTPLook and spent a few hours sitting down doing radian/decimal calculators on the data converted from hex to no avail - feel free to give it ago.

Originally Posted by Ninja Monkey

What I really like about the snooper are the voice alerts telling you the speed limit / distance etc... Perhaps you could use the MS text-to-speech engine to incorporate this?

or even better - have the the option for the app to constantly output all the details to a file so we can write our own apps to deal with it (For example I'd want to have it mute winamp while it was talking)

It'd be great if I could replace all the functions of my snooper completely :-)

Yeah, could hook up TTS easily for real time speech.
Writing to a file and another app reading said file, both in 'realtime' would be very messy - I could offer an IP connection? eg 'host' it on a localhost port(127.0.0.1:9999) and output keywords - that would be a much neater way of making it work with your apps (your app would simply connect via a winsock control and listen for events)

Ok - the 2nd revision is ready for download (0.95) - now includes various options (minimise to tray, start on load, port config save etc) a much improved calculation routine (less CPU load and faster running) and the ability to connect to it with your own application. (VB or otherwise, uses IP so is fairly universal)
VB demo code for how to connect to the application is at the bottom of the page.
Haven't tested it fully 'on the road' yet so there are bound to be a few bugs!


Next revision will include any bug fixes found here - speed display along with estimated time to camera (including time alerts, so can set it to trigger voice when 10 seconds away, rather than just distance option)

Hmmm interesting, any other information with the runtime error?

Could you download this one for me and put it in the same folder as the main files you already have - then run debug.exe amd hit 'start' again, and tell me what messages it flags before crashing, will help me pinpoint where it's going wrong.

debug

Originally Posted by pottillo

tested version 0,95. Same run time error n. 13 when i hit start button. If the db is loaded or not or the gps is connected or not, still same error 13. Can this be related to the use of a non english verion of WinXP?