Thread: TwoCar - New car software for touchscreens

I know there are a lot of people out there doing their own software thing, but I thought someone else might want to take a look at what I have been working on.

You can download a beta version here

Here is my current feature list:
1) Supports the D-Link USB FM Radio. Includes user defined presets (in the INI file) and currently displays up to 9 presets at a time.
2) Plays MP3s through WinAmp (I use 2.x, I think 3.x should still work). It currently only plays existing playlists, which all have to be in the playlist directory in the INI file.
3) Plays DVDs using the MSDVD activeX control. That means you need a directShow compatable DVD player installed (PowerDVD is what I use, I think WinDVD should work as well). I am not actually sure if the app runs without a compatable DVD player installed, so if ti works for you and you don't have a DVD player, let me know.
4) Plays audio CDs, including having a local CDDB database. Right now, you need a windows format local CDDB, and you need to put the path to the database in the INI file. If you don't have CDDB on your machine, take the CDDBPath line out of the INI.
5) Interface is through a flash movie, which I have provided the source for. If you want a different interface, drop in a new movie (just make sure to call it the same thing). This means you need Flash installed on your computer. If you don't have Flash, go get it from http://www.macromedia.com

Planned features:
1) Support for plug ins to define new "pages". I actually have this mostly done, just need to wrap up a few things. Basically, you drop DLLs into a directory that have a well defined interface and then add support for them in your flash UI. I will have more information on this when it is done. The big question for me right now is if I should try to figure out a way to support VBActiveX dlls, which seems somewhat hard. Please let me know if that would be important to you.
2) Integration with TravRoute Copilot 2002. I already have the tab in the flash, it just doesn't do anything right now.
3) Car systems integration with ODB2 and with my labjack USB data logger for monitoring car stuff. Suggestions here are welcome.
4) A much prettier interface. As you can see, the current interface is a mismash of stuff, cause I was trying out some ideas. If there are any artists out there, please please please make me a new UI. The current one is ugly, cause I am a programmer, not an artist.
5) Support for remotes. I have the ATI remote wonder, so there will definetly be support for that at some point, but I would also like to support other remotes.

Suggestions are welcome, of course. I will be releasing the source code (all VC++) as soon as I finalize a few more bits. If you have any questions or comments, post em here or email me at josh@goldshlag.com

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