Thread: My Custom Frontend

Hi dmxl,

Thank you for your reply. I will definitly keep up the good work . I was just about to post a new update when i saw your message.

I was bored today because i was learning (stupid stuff about datawarehousing) so i decided to continue working on my Destinator DLL. Here's a screenshot of it preloading the cities. This way you have easy access to all the cities because there already in your memory. I do think I am going to create an option to turn preloading of the cities on or off.

Coming along nicely MOnline!

A few questions...

Is the top and bottom bar locked in the system? Meaning that it can not be "skinned away"?


What's the advantage of preloading the cities? How long does it take to do it?

I'm loading all the cities in the map into an array (for display in a list) and it opens up the list pretty instant, I'm not sure about how many cities that's in the list but it would be all in Scandinavia.

He Borte,

Don't worry the bars can be skinned away. Will create a skinning app because it is currently optimized for my skin (streching etc keeps the system resources down ).

I decided to preload the cities because it takes about 10 seconds to load them all. Don't know why but it does that. (Maybe you can take a look at my code and see what i am doing wrong. (I am using the BeNeLux map btw and as you can see it contains many cities)

Code:

Public Sub fillCities()
    ReDim strCityNames(0 To myDest.CityCount - 1)

    For i = 0 To myDest.CityCount - 1
        DoEvents
        strCityNames(i) = myDest.GetCityNameFromID(myDest.GetArrayOfCitiesID.Item(i))
        If ((i / 100) = Round((i / 100), 0)) Then
            frmDestNavi.lblLoading.Caption = "Preloading Cities: " & i & "/" & myDest.CityCount - 1
        End If
    Next
End Sub

So thats all for now will try to see if i can create a quick skin to show you all how skinnable it is.

With Kind Regards,

FG van Zeelst

This is my code for getting the cities:

Code:

            Set tmpDestIDArray = Dest2.GetArrayOfCitiesID
            ReDim tmpList(tmpDestIDArray.ItemCount - 1)
            ReDim Route_City(UBound(tmpList))
            For Index = 0 To tmpDestIDArray.ItemCount - 1
                Route_City(Index).Index = tmpDestIDArray.Item(Index)
                Route_City(Index).Name = Dest2.GetCityNameFromID(tmpDestIDArray.Item(Index))
                tmpList(Index) = Route_City(Index).Name
            Next Index
            Local_List = tmpList

Like I said it loads it more or less instantly.

I think one of the reasons your code behaves slowly is this line:

Code:

        strCityNames(i) = myDest.GetCityNameFromID(myDest.GetArrayOfCitiesID.Item(i))

If I understand it correctly you're querying destionator about the CityID everytime you get a name.
In my code I get an array of this first instead of redoing this every loop.

As far as I can see now (in a bit of a rush) that's the only difference.

EDIT: Disregard the above statement. Our codes are more or less the same... So I don't really see the difference. I'll see if I can verify how many cities I'm loading, but I can't do that before on sunday (I got a tournament to goto this weekend)

Thanks for your reply I do think my problem is the multiple querying of destinator but I did this because that set Command gave me an error. Will be looking in to this.

If you could also tell me how the variables in your code are defined, because the Set tmpDestIDArray = myDest.GetArrayOfCitiesID was giving me an error all the time.

*UPDATE*
Well fixed the problem and well it now loads in about 1 second . So that's pretty good . Thanks

With kind regards,

FG van Zeelst

PS good luck at your tournament

So here it is a new screenshot of the navigation screen. This is the menu where you are able to plan your navigations. Still not sure if its completely correct but he.

I know the icons are ugly at least i think so but im not that good working with photoshop .

So I was just working out my street selection thingy when i ran into a problem loading the number. I live in holland and here we have subfixes to our house numbers (sometimes) like 49A. 49B, 49C. How do I find out if those numbers are present?

With kind regards,

FG van Zeelst

It should work using the same code as I gave you, but you have to loop trough your sub numbers before jumping to the next housenumber.
The problem though is that you'll slow the loop down.

I have not tested this so I'm not sure if it will work, I'm just trowing out ideeas!

Hmm,

I see it would be pretty heavy to do so. I guess I will just stick with numbers .

With kind regards,

FG van Zeelst