Thread: OziExplorer

In accordance with rules for RR:
How to embed any Application in RR
-You must have a "base" launch folder (i.e. C:\LAUNCH\)
-You must create a sub-folder with your App's name (i.e. C:\LAUNCH\ Oziexplorer)
-You must create a INI with the same name of your sub-folder (i.e. Oziexplorer.ini)
-You must enter AT LEAST those two lines in the INI file:
PATH=C:\Oziexplorer\Ozi.exe
WindowSearchString= TfmMainForm
That I must now write in the folder of LAUNCH

@ SSan

We've set this program up to be called from the main menu, not from the embedded apps area. In the release, there is a folder called "Ozi BMV2 Skin". This contains our modified menu skin and the required Ozi skin to make it all work.

I haven't tested it, but it may work in the launch area. The window title to embed is "OziEmbedded"

Easiest way to get it working to start with is to do a new install of RR using the latest installer, then follow the instructions in the readme in the OziEmbedded release file. This will set it up the way Rod and myself run it in the BMV2 skin.

I use the Russian version of Oziexplorer 3.95.4m

I need to see what the window title is when you open OziExplorer not embedded. Our skin relies on the text name of the window to make it embed from the start.

SSan

From what I am seeing, from the screen dump, you have got this going. You will be able to emebed it uing lauch, but you use the Window name "OziEmbedded", and start Skinbedder.exe, not OziExplorer but we are starting it direct from a button as we have described in the earlier posts.

The window handling is complex. Skinbedder (SB) encapsulates OziExplorer as it was not well behaved and does not work if embeded directly in RR. SB grabs the Window class !TfmMainForm and hides it from every other program and publishes thewindow title "OziEmbedded" in its place.

The OziAPI.DLL which we use (in the program OziSave.EXE) to save files also looks for !TfmMainForm and does not work once Ozi is "hidden" in SB. So we have to be tricky. What we do is open up a hidden window with a class of TfmMainForm and the same window title OziExplorer has if the demonstration map (demo.map) is open. This window drills down into Skinbedder to find the real OziExplorer and then acts as an intermediary capturing messages to and from the API and forwarding them on to Ozi or the API DLL and everybody is happy.

There is only one oziAPI.DLL for OziExplorer (so it does not change for each language) so I am pretty sure there will be no language problems.

Finally, if you ever try to launch an application as you have tried to do and use a Windows class instead of a name, it starts with a ! as in

Code:

!TfmMainForm

I am sorry, it is eventual so
!TfmMainForm
A screen shot OziExplorer (not embedded)

a screen shot OziEmbedded in RR
[media]http://s54.radikal.ru/i145/0809/26/60859d6b9752.jpg[/media]

PCCAR is set in a car already more than 3 months. I also use the Front Ends of RR with skin Bmv2 and Oziexplorer for a navigation. All works remarkably. However much practice rotined that it is necessary automatically to save tracks and waypoints at the shutdown of computer on leaving from a car. (In hand I often forget it to do). I also want to have a map on all screen without instrumental panels and other inscriptions. In an ideal it would be necessary to have pop-up panel, as in the videoplayer of Bmv2.
I already have some experience with RR with skin Bmv2. Therefore:
1. I set Oziembeddedv1.0.
2. Replaced the files of Ozi in the folder of skin on files from the complete set of Oziembeddedv1.0.zip.
3 Replaced a line in a main menu on the button «Oziexplorer» on:B17,473,305,317,99,"LOAD;OZI.SKIN;OZI EXPLORER;C:\OziEmbeddedV1.0\SKINbedder.exe;OziEmbe dded","OziEmbedded"

I would like also to have the Russian lay-out of keyboard as on a photo:
http://s59.radikal.ru/i164/0809/f6/c5ad551b39cf.jpg

So it sounds like you have got this installed and working? Yes or No?
Tracks and waypoints should be saved on shutdown and closing of OziExplorer from our skin.

If you have installed OziExplorer in C:\OziExplorer, you will find these files in C:\OziExplorer\Data. The file names look something like:
20080914-0150-06.wpt

This file was saved on 14th Sepember 2008 and the time was 1:50:06

Now in a car set old version of Skinbedder from the complete set of ozistuff.rar Your version I only try on a working computer.
In the folder of C:\oziexplorer\data I have a file 20080924-1134-11.wpt

Hey Rod,

I think I was leading people astray when I was asking about the language... It's that long ago that I got the embedding working properly, I forgot we're using the window class and not the text...

Anyway, it works!

Hallo all!
There is another moment which, as it is it seems to me necessary to take into account. The buttons in skin Bmv2 have a form of ellipse, and in Oziembedded of the button have a form of circle.

The screen of PCCAR has usually correlation of sides 9:16 and the buttons in skin Bmv2 become round, and button Oziembedded now have a form of ellipse.
[media]http://s56.radikal.ru/i153/0809/55/311ab9e9e036.jpg[/media]
It is good evidently on the example of the button Oziexplorer main menu – all the same our planet is round.