Thread: embedding copilot in mediacar

Thats not what I see.

In Driver mode I see that the top level (non child) windows is captioned:

"CoPilot 2003" and is actually a dialog frame. The styles are:

popup/visible/disabled/clipsibs/overlapped.

This is a container window only, the main panel has a caption of:

"In-Vehicle Route Guidance"

which contains two windows: PanelMap and PanelGPSTop

I have been able to get windows to embed by getting the caption correct and the window suporting resize.

Without the author of MediaCar the only knowledge I have been able to get is empirical. By making my own things embedd. This have been pretty easy, but I haven't started on co-Pilot yet. I first need to figure out why it hangs sometimes when I click the itinary, and why it tells me to turn left and yet the map clearly shows right sometimes. I have 2003 with the latest patch. Im impressed with the quality of the program except these important errors in makes (and the very annoying hangs). at least its better than Desinator which didnt even have my town on!

Please let me know how this goes. If you dont figure it out, I'll write a wrapper program that launches and finds the CoPilot windows and tells it to resize. If it wont listen, then its possible to change the window styles for a window too, you need the processid which can be found by enumerating the process table.

Kuo

You might find this program useful. I wrote it to help you figure this out.

When you run it (there is a release build and source) you enter some search string, like "CoPilot" (no * in these, unlike MC).

The program will then enumerate all visible windows with a caption and try and match the first to whatever you typed.

When you have something selected you can click resize and it will do a MoveWindow to 100,100, 800, 600 - offset 100,100, size 800x600.

This is just an illustration. I was able to get CoPilot to resize and move just fine using this. The problem is that when CoPiloit first starts it doesnt have the window that you ultimately resize created yet...

You'll see when you play with this.

Obviously feel free to play with the program and make it more useful.

The app is a MSVC6 project.

Think you could make that command lind based, ad we could run a batch file to look for the window, create the window, so Media car can snap it into place?

hey mobile,

i think i'm going to have to wait for you to write your wrapper program. i got copilot laptop 7 to embed into mediacar but i do not know how to make it resizeable. when it was embedded, the buttons were cut off. also you can't switch to any other module in mediacar without first quiting copilot. i'm going to keep looking at this but i hope someone smarter than me figures it out first.

Originally Posted by kuo

hey mobile,

i think i'm going to have to wait for you to write your wrapper program. i got copilot laptop 7 to embed into mediacar but i do not know how to make it resizeable. when it was embedded, the buttons were cut off. also you can't switch to any other module in mediacar without first quiting copilot. i'm going to keep looking at this but i hope someone smarter than me figures it out first.

Which buttons were cut off? If you can't switch to another module then it's not embedded.

i will try to look into this for routis as well. i have similar problems with resizing and not being embedded.

what i meant when i said i got copilot embedded was that the copilot window became only as big as the media car window. i'm running 1600x1200 on my desktop computer and mediacar is running at 848x480. when copilot normally opens up it goes fullscreen, but when i put the caption as "in-vehicle route guidance" in mediacar and opened it embedded, copilot opened up at 1600x1200 but the visible window was only 848x480 so a all of the buttons on the right were not visible. i think it showed the top left 848x480 of the 1600x1200 window. i hope that made some sense.

As a new owner of copilot this thread is of importance to me. Is there any we we can come up some way to embed this in mediacar?

id be highly interested to this as well