Thread: Garmin RR: Overlay and OSK for GMPC Updated 11/09/08

Can anyone give me some guidance as to how I get this working with the eLite Lite skin?

Has anyone gotten Garmin OSK to work with windows 7 (I'm using DFX 4 and eLite lite)? The OSK doesn't show up for me but it still blocks the input field so I can't use my keyboard to enter the address so it makes it almost unusable within RR, I have to run it outside of RR put in the address then restart RR. Very inefficient.

Originally Posted by maceo4

Has anyone gotten Garmin OSK to work with windows 7 (I'm using DFX 4 and eLite lite)?

Yes. Works fine for me.

my style of gmpc overlay

with free virtual keyboard for multilanguage

Originally Posted by kuo

I had the same issue. My workaround was to autohide the taskbar and have an autoit script on the desktop that moves the mouse to show the taskbar when needed. I believe the issue is that win7's taskbar is always on top and makes the gmpc window open shorter than specified by the skin. RR then resizes gmpc and leaves it on top. It may not be accurate but that's my theory.

I finally got my touchscreen and my OSK doesn't show up either. I tried this autohide trick and it didn't seem to do anything. I still can't get the OSK to show up.

So has anyone managed to fix the overlay issue? It's actually pretty irritating now :/

Originally Posted by zillacles

So has anyone managed to fix the overlay issue? It's actually pretty irritating now :/

with gmpc 5.00.70 and win7 the overlay only works sporadically but i've found with gmpc 5.00.60 the overlay almost always gets hidden behind the gmpc window. the solution i've found reliable is to stop using the overlay. just create a normal skin to embed the gmpc window and use the osk that anuchit is using a few posts up and you will be a much happier camper. this is what i've done.

Trying it out now. One question though, how did you remove the title for the virtual keyboard window? It doesn't seem to be part of its settings.

i use the following autoit script that i found on the interwebs to remove the title bar and position the osk. just change the path to freevk.exe to what you need it to be and adjust the 2nd winmove line to suit your needs. the reason there are two winmove lines is that the osk needs to be moved for the title bar to be removed. maybe one of our expert autoit coders can shed some light on why this is the case.

Code:

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
Run("D:\program files\virtualkeyboard\Freevk.exe")
WinWait("[CLASS:TMainForm]")

$hWnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:TMainForm]")

$iOld_Styles = _WinGetStyle($hWnd, 0)
$iOld_ExStyles = _WinGetStyle($hWnd, 1)

$iNew_Styles = BitAND($iOld_Styles, BitNOT($WS_SYSMENU), BitNOT($WS_CAPTION)) ;, BitNOT($WS_SIZEBOX))

_WinSetStyle($hWnd, $iNew_Styles, $iOld_ExStyles)

WinMove("[CLASS:TMainForm]", "", -3, 209, 807, 273)
WinMove("[CLASS:TMainForm]", "", -4, 210, 808, 274)

Func _WinSetStyle($hWnd, $Style = -1, $ExStyle = 0)
    Local Const $GWL_STYLE = -16, $GWL_EXSTYLE = -20
    Local Const $SWP_NOMOVE = 0x2, $SWP_NOSIZE = 0x1, $SWP_SHOWWINDOW = 0x40, $SWP_NOZORDER = 0x4
    Local $iFlags = BitOR($SWP_SHOWWINDOW, $SWP_NOSIZE, $SWP_NOMOVE, $SWP_NOZORDER)
    
    If $Style = -1 Then $Style = BitOR($WS_MINIMIZEBOX, $WS_CAPTION, $WS_POPUP, $WS_SYSMENU)
    
    DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "SetWindowLong", "hwnd", $hWnd, "int", $GWL_STYLE, "int", $Style)
    DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "SetWindowLong", "hwnd", $hWnd, "int", $GWL_EXSTYLE, "int", $ExStyle)
    DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "SetWindowPos", "hwnd", $hWnd, "hwnd", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", $iFlags)
EndFunc

Func _WinGetStyle($hWnd, $iIndex=0)
    Local Const $GWL_STYLE = -16, $GWL_EXSTYLE = -20
    
    Local $iGWL_Index = $GWL_STYLE
    If $iIndex > 0 Then $iGWL_Index = $GWL_EXSTYLE
    
    Local $aStyles = DllCall('User32.dll', 'long', 'GetWindowLong', 'hwnd', $hWnd, 'int', $iGWL_Index)
    Return $aStyles[0]
EndFunc

the osk skin button runs the following auto it script where osk_open.exe is the above autoit script

Code:

If WinExists("[CLASS:TMainForm]") Then
	WinClose("[CLASS:TMainForm]", "")
Else
	Run("D:\Program Files\Riderunner\Tools\osk_open.exe")
EndIf

the exit button executes the following code along with an "EXIT"

Code:

If WinExists("[CLASS:TMainForm]") Then
	WinClose("[CLASS:TMainForm]", "")
EndIf