Thread: Garmin Mobile PC OSK and More - RELEASE

This is more of a sendkey program, and can be adapated for use with any skin in any front end.

Nice, thank you for this, now I might just have to go out and buy the program. I was saving my pennies for IG 2009, but it doesn't seem to be worth 2x the price of GMPC... This was a major issue holding me back from it.

Subscribed and downloaded.
Will give this a try tomorrow and let you know how it goes in my setup.

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So, has anyone put together an OSK skin to use this with?

here's what I threw together:





The OSK is a little slow since it has to run the script for each and every letter, but it works. If there was a way to speed it up a little bit, or create a buffer of commands, that would be nice.

I have my screen set up so that the "garmin rr" in the top left activates and deactivates the keyboard, and the "back" exits back to RR.

EDIT: Slight tweak to the OSK.

Originally Posted by monkeyracer

If there was a way to speed it up a little bit, or create a buffer of commands, that would be nice.

Very Nice! I have a way you can really speed it up if you want. Just add a "receiver" to the script, so it is always running and "listening" for commands. You can start the script when you press the OSK button and close it when you hit enter.

In the script you then simply use CASE statements in a loop:

Here is the basic script to start with:

Code:

#include <misc.au3>
$hwnd_rec = GUICreate('GarminOSK')
GUIRegisterMsg(0x004A, '_GUIRegisterMsgProc')

While 1

    Switch String($OSKCommand )
          Case "a" 
                 [Your command here to send a to Garmin]

          Case "b" 
                 [Your command here to send b to Garmin]

          Case "c" 
                 [Your command here to send c to Garmin]

          Case "find" 
                 [Your code to find the text box in garmin]

          Case "enter" 
                 [Send Enter to Garmin]
                 Exit

    EndSwitch

WEnd


Func _GUIRegisterMsgProc($hWnd, $MsgID, $WParam, $LParam)
    If $MsgID = 0x004A Then
        $vs_cds = DllStructCreate("ptr;dword;ptr", $LParam)
        $vs_msg = DllStructCreate('char[' & DllStructGetData($vs_cds, 2) + 1 & ']', DllStructGetData($vs_cds, 3))
        $recd_msg = DllStructGetData($vs_msg, 1)
        $recd_msg = StringLeft($recd_msg, DllStructGetData($vs_cds, 2))
        $OSKCommand = $recd_msg
    EndIf
EndFunc

Then, on the RR button use:

"SENDMSG;GarminOSK;a"

to send an "a" to the script.

So it is not always running, when you press ENTER on the OSK, send the command to Garmin, and then close the script.


I used this type of script for my screen lock in the DFX skin, and the key presses are instant.

Looks like there will be an update to this pretty quick then...

Hmmm thinking about this a bit more.... there may be an even easier way to simplify the code.. Look for enter, esc and what not, and if its not a "special" command or key, then just send what was received to Garmin.