Thread: Integrating my Nav Software

Hi,

You need to create an application area on the skin that you want to embed the program onto, youll get the idea from these 2 posts...

How do I launch an application in its own "skin" or "screen" ? Launching applications from ANY skin/screen in RR

How to embbed any Application in RR ? To embbed an application

put this on the button that calls for your satnav program

this is an example for my satnav using iguidance:

LOAD;iguidance.skin;GPS;c:\Program Files\iNav\iGuidance Europe\iGuidance.exe;iGuidance",""

this is contained in the iguidance.skin, which is where i am embedding the sat nav software:

A01,204,42,596,516,192

ive attached the 2 skin files, so you can have a look at the code, and change them to work with your program.

Have Fun!

the way your talking, it should also work, i find it more efficient to have a seperate skin for each nav program, for example i run tom tom, freedrive, iguidance but the only program that i have specified in rrconfig is "freedrive" with the "external" selected.

each satnav i use has a skin, like the files i attached for example i have a button with this code:

"LOAD;iguidance.skin;GPS;c:\Program Files\iNav\iGuidance Europe\iGuidance.exe;iGuidance",""

it will then embed the prog into iguidance.skin

Iguidance.skin has the following code to define how its going to embed:

A01,204,42,596,516,192 (this is the application size parameter)
C01,204,42,596,516,192 (This is the clipping area)

This works fine for me, you may also want to check if you have the program details defined correctly, so it knows what program it is embeding into skin, attach your skins if you want me to take a look

Originally Posted by millec

Thanks for the help. I'll read through the links. I'm a bit confused why I would need to modify a skin. In the past I've embedded a variety of external Nav systems just by changing the "external app" GPS settig in rrconfig. I've used USGS Topo, DeLorme TopoMap USA, and Freedrive w/o having to modify my current skin. I believe my application is doing something that is preventing it from running correctly.

My application was designed to automatically run full-screen, and if it was smaller than the screen size to run centered on the screen. I noticed that RR runs in the upper left hand corner when it is running smaller than the current screen size. Rather than just experimenting around to figure out how my app should behave to be compatible with RR, I thought I'd ask so I know that I have a clear understanding of the requirements.

Thanks,
Craig

Originally Posted by millec

Yeah, I'm updating my software now to run either as a normal window or in it's custom fullscreen window mode if it is running stand-alone. Hopefully that will do the trick.

Thanks again for the reply. Seeing how it passes a size and a clipping region reassures me that I'm on the right track.

care to tell us more about your nav software?

Nice! Are those OS Landranger maps, kind of like OZi Explorer & Memory Map Navigator?

How do you stop it trying to route people down footpaths and bridalways, some UK satnavs units are a ****er for that. The GF's TomTom700 sent me down an unamed road which rapidly turned into a dirt & cobble bridalway in my lowered Nissan 200sx. This 'road' was tight and after dark had no street lighting, became very narrow and bumpy and impossible for me to turn round, and too dark to reverse... So I had to take a chance and carry on, nearly wrecking my car in the process, and another time when it wanted to take me through the private roads on a farm as it was a short cut, the farmer wasn't amused though

Maybe one day, the maps will have road restrictions like weight, width and height restrictions, low bridges etc to make routing safer and more reliable for folk in unusual vehicles.

I beleive TomTom are working on TomTom Commercial, a kind of Truckers version of a TomTom. Not sure how far off that is though.