Q. I have put my country code in the ini but there is no cameras in the list?
A. The initial download only comes with the UK database, after you have entered your country code in the ini, run the program and leave it running for at least 5 mins. If the skin you are using has the 'New Database' indicator on it, it should light up when a new database is downloaded, click on this indicator and it will load the new database. If the skin has no indicator, stop and restart the program. If the database is still not there it could be that my website is down, you are behind a firewall which has blocked the download or the program itself was updating.
Q. Why is my country not supported?
A. I have collected as many countries as I can where I can, either from searching or other users providing links, if you country is not supported it is either I haven't found a website with the cameras or if I have they are moving images which TC does not support at this time. Bear in mind if the site is not in English I may have trouble understanding it.
Q. Why is my State/Town/City not supported?
A. I have collected as many countries as I can where I can, either from searching or other users providing links, if your state/town/city is not supported it is either I haven't found a website with the cameras or if I have they are moving images which TC does not support at this time.
Q. I have found a site for my Country/State/Town/City what do I need to do to get these added to the databases?
A. If it is a new Country then firstly provide me with a link, if it is not in English you may have to harvest the info yourself. Please provide the info in the following format
<url of camera>
<Location of camera including town/state>
<lat>
<lon>
NB the lat and lon need to be in decimal format and not Degrees Minutes, seconds. ie (34.4567,-23,9465)
Q. How can I download this wonderful creation?
A. Register on my forum at
www.en4cer.co.uk/forum , when activated go to the downloads section.
Q. I have registered on your site but am still not activated, why?
A. I do not monitor the forum registrations 24/7 so it could take hours or possibly a day or two before I can activate you. If I am going away I will normally put this info into the news section of the forum. If however after a few days of registering you have not been activated then contact me via PM here. Using the
same username as you do on here will help you get activated quicker.
Q. Does this application only work with a front end program like RR?
A. No, it will work standalone or embedded into most frontends, although is does have better integration with RR.
Q. How do I change the size?
A. At present TC is not dynamically resizeable, that means if you want to run at a different resolution, you will need to create a set of jpgs and .eskin files to fit.
The size is physically controlled by the skin.ini (found in the skin folder) file settings
Width=800
Height=546
or if not present the same settings in the Trafficams.ini file in the TC root directory
Q. Can I use RRSkineditor to edit the skin?
A. It is not recommended as earlier version could delete lines it did not recognise.
Q. How do I embed this is my skin?
A. To make a button you will need to edit the skin you are using (subaru skin), you can use the RRSkineditor for this, and add a button like
B,x,y,w,h,"load;trafficcam.skin;Traffic Cam;$rrpath$Traffic Cams\Trafficams.exe;Trafficams"
you will need to change the x,y,w,h figures to suit the placement on the skin. (if using skineditor this may be done for you).
You will then need a .skin file called trafficcam.skin. (I have just realised on some of the earlier releases I included suitable ones for the two skins I did, BMV and iDrive, as examples but the latest releases didn't have these. That is what the attachment in my previous post is)
Easiest thing to do at the moment is to use the BMV one and copy the mm_off.jpg,mm_on.jpg,mm_down.jpg jpgs to your subaru skin folder.
Then it is a matter of designing a skin for traffic cams that fits in with the subaru skin (might be best to contact the author and see they can do it if you are not familiar with doing RR skins other than with the editors).
Q. Would someone care to send me this?
A. The Terms And Conditions expressly forbid the distribution of this program, please register on my forum to get your copy.
Q. Does this show redlight and speed cameras?
A. No, this is only for traffic movement cameras, for speed cameras a red light cameras try Gatso Hunter.
Q. Is the video live or updated? or mix?
A. Currently this is only static image cameras, these get updated by the websites anything from every second to soem which update every 20mins.
Q. Does your plugin accepts video traffic cams?
A. Not at present, this maybe something for the future, but at the moment this would probably take too much bandwith.
Q. I would love to be able to add some custom images to the traffic cam app?
A. At present this is not possible, but it something I will look into
Q. How do you pull coordinates for traffic cams?
A. This can be very laborious.
One method is to use google earth combined with the website the cameras are on and the Traffic Camera pictures.
You will need to look at roughtly where they say it is (there is normally a map of sorts), look at the picture, zoom in on google earth until you can marry the picture image with what is seen in google earth and then read the co-ordinates. It also helps if you are fairly familiar with the area/country.
Sometimes you are lucky and if you look at the source of the page with the map, it will sometimes provide the GPS coords in their somewhere, these can then just be copy and pasted into notepad.
Q. In RR the OSK comes up but text does not appear in search box, why?
A. It has been found that if ctfmon.exe is running it will block anything sent via sendkeys, which is how the OSK works. Check in taskmgr to see if it is running in the processes. If it is kill it.
Q. Why do you need the GPS coords with the cameras?
A. Two fold, one is to be able to see on a map where a camera is in the serach screen, help you decide if it is somewhere you go. And secondly I hope to add the ability to show cameras based on the position, so as you move it will always show the cameras nearest to you.
Q. What is the current database version for my country?
A.
UK Database version=UK005
US Database version=US012
Austria Database Version=AT001
Australia Database Version=AU002
Belgium Database Version=BE001
Brazil Database Version=BR001
Canada Database Version=CA003
Germany Database Version=DE001
Denmark Database Version=DK002
Spain Database Version=ES004
Finland Database Version=FI001
France Database Version=FR001
Croatia Database Version=HR002
Hungary Database Version=HU002
Ireland Database Version=IE002
Iceland Database Version=IS001
Italy Database Version=IT001
Luxemburg Database Version=LU002
Malaysia Database Version=MY001
Nederlands Database Version=NL001
New Zealand Database Version=NZ001
Poland Database Version=PL001
Portugal Database Version=PT001
Sweden Database Version=SE001
Singapore Database Version=SG002
Slovenia Database Version=SI001
Venezuela Database Version=VE001
