Gremlin

Yet another Car System?

I've been working on AutoTouch. My variant. The idea is to do something that requires no input apart from a touch screen. At the moment I have a version done which could be alpha tested, I've not finished the skinning part. It does Navigation using MapPoint (you'll need MapPoint to use it) and uses the Windows Media Player 9 interface to play music. You can create playlists on the fly, and it does autocomplete when selecting music information (Artist/Album names). It does point to point navigation using any NEMA GPS and MapPoint without using AGPS or the equivalent.

If anyone wants to give it a go, I'll figure out a place to post an MSI.

-Gremlin

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Laidback

Of course we want to try....

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SilentAdmirer

I would like to test too :-)

spectrrr

car system isnt up yet, but i'd love to bench test it and see how the interface works..... Mediacar didnt quite do it for me

Gremlin

I'm not sure will work but here's a link

http://www.sarinarts.com/AutoTouchSetup.msi

It's got some basic skinning in that you can edit the XML file it's hardcoded to read to change which background, which colours etc. Also if you're using MapPoint Europe you'll want to change the North America string in the MBSkin.xml file to "Europe"

The settings button (the two gears) at the bottom does nothing right now,I'm working on what I want it to do, and the DVD button on the left just launches an app (specified by the XML file) as I use it to run a DVD through a decoder board to a TV, while the UI stays ont he touch screen.

The Navigation and the music system work, but it requires that you have MapPoint Installed, and also the .NET Framework 1.1

let me know what y'all think!

-Gremlin

AlienEclipse

I'm getting the following error when running your app:

An exception 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' has occurred in AutoTouch.exe

I'm running Windows XP, fully up-to-date and have .NET framework 1.1 installed. Its actually the "Just-In-Time" Debugger thats picking it up, as i have VS.net 2003 and the .net framework sdk installed.

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Gremlin

Okay Alien, any more information than that? You have MapPoint 2004 installed (or whatever the latest version is?)

-Gremlin

SilentAdmirer

I had the same problem as AlienEclipse but once I changed the navigation to europe in XML , its running . I will test it in later in the evening.

Satish

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Gremlin

Thanks, that's great info!

I'll add a try catch around that section for a bit more reliability. Or maybe I'll just change it to try each one and keep the one that succeeds!

-Gremlin

Gremlin

I'm just wondering, apparenlty changing the map to europe per my instructions is necessary to get it going. I'm curious for any feedback.

thank you!

-Gremlin

Custommx3

I did, and it crashes on me as well.

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Gremlin

I've only tested this on three systems and it has worked on each ones. Can I ask you for the text of the crash so I can debug? You're in TN I see so you should've left the MAP Set to North America

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peterj

Hi
This is the error I get.

peterj

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Laidback

I get same as above but different id's

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Gremlin

Okay that's not so useful because I have no idea what bit is crashing. So I've created a new version with a different exception handler, that should hopefuly give more info. You'll be able to copy the text from the error box and paste it into the message you send back. Please download this version (same location) and let me know how it goes. I appreciate all the help! I'm sorry for the crash.

As a quick possibility did you install it to the normal location (as suggested) or put it on another drive? I'm just curious there aren't any hardcoded paths but I need to know what to try.

-grem

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