ANN: Postcode support for TTN2 on PocketPC

Steve_o · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 15

Thax1,

Thanx for your reply. I tried the Activsync and it worked a dream. No more trying to connect to whatever it was. For some reason it was draining my battery while trying to connect.

Anyway problem solved.

Thanks again. Thumbs Up

Steve_o

tom9851 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:33 am Post subject:

I have tried to use Dynamite's great new software but without success. I tried to follow his instructions on his site but think my lack of experience is getting the better of me!

Wonder if one of you clever guys could e-mail me an idiot-proof step-by-tep set of instructions for the installation of this application. I have a new Ipaq H2210 with TTN2 and WM2003 and my TTN2 UK maps are stored on a 256mb SD card.

Many thanks in advance.

Tom

e-mail:- gmtomkins@worldonline.co.uk

Nick412 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:10 am Post subject:

Hi Tom,
have you got checkpoint 2.02 already installed.?

if so heres what worked for me Smile

Nick412,

I see you are using CheckPOInt - in this case I don't think you need to run the setup.exe file at all, it installs the tomtom drivers which should already be on your machine. Try just copying the .exe and .dat files to your storage card (Step 4 onwards in installation instructions).

You can verify that you already have the tomtom driver on your machine by looking for a file called TTNControl.ocx in the \Windows folder on the PocketPC.

- Niels
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Ianh · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:

dynamite!! - What a program, exactly what it says on the tin - Now if TTNv3 doesn't include full uk postcodes............!!!

Great work, for your next release maybe a larger keyboard and little icon to call your program up whilst in TTN like CheckPOInt

Keep up the good work Thumbs Up

Pebbles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 25, 2004 Posts: 1

Dynamite,

Based on other people's feedback it look's as if you've created a great application!

I have TT2 installed with 128Mb CF on an HP Jornada 548 running Windows CE. This has proved to be a very reliable set-up and is permanently installed in my car.

Do you have any plans of recompiling to support Windows-CE or is there anyway this application can be run with this configuration?

Cheers,

-Pebbles

tom9851 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

Hi Nick412,

No, I don't have Checkpoint installed - should I install it?
I checked on the Ipaq's Windows folder and can't see TTNControl.ocx in there.

Tom

Nick412 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

Hi Tom,
If you installed checkpoint then it will add TTNControl.ocx to your pda,

Then all you need to do is bypass setup.exe and just move the dat and other exe file to the same folder on your pda.

then hightlight the .exe USING YOUR PDA and copy

then goto window\Start menu and click edit on the bottom left, then paste shortcut

then click start and a link to the postcode app should show.

click on it and enjoy :-)

let us know hwo you get on :-)

Cheers
Nick
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Nick412 · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

error - move dat & other exe to storage card, and then create shortcut.

as dynamite says earlier, as long as the dat & .exe files are in the same folder and the exe has a shortcut add to the start menu all should be ok

Cheers
Nick[/b]
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dynamite · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:52 pm Post subject:

Hi Howard,

Regarding missing postcodes, the database currently contains 1665938 postcodes which should be by far the majority of them. My intention was to just pick up any postcodes that cannot be found in the database from the internet and dynamically add them to the database. Assuming I can actually make it work (!) it should only take a few seconds to locate a postcode that isn't in the database this way.

- Niels

dynamite · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

Pebbles,

I'm sorry, I don't actually know the difference between the various versions of Win CE, I'm a bit of a novice programmer on the PocketPC...

From what I understand, I should be able to target my application at Win CE versions 2.00, 2.01, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12 and 3.00 as well as Windows Mobile 2003 of course. If your Journada runs one of those it should be possible to make it work, although it may take some experimentation.

- Niels

Howarduk · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

hi dynamite

It wasnt a criticism. I think your post code search is absolutely brilliant. If as you say its the majority of postcodes anyway then adding to it shouldnt be to bad. Thanks again for letting us use this brilliant piece of software
Thumbs Up

Howard

martinleebriggs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 16, 2003 Posts: 31

Well done Dynamite
This program of yours works loads really fast and best of all its free. Welldone again mate keep up the good work. Thumbs Up

tom9851 · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:18 am Post subject:

Nick,

Thanks for your advice. Spent ages last night trying to paste the .exe into the windows/startmenu folder - must have done it 20 times and it never showed on the menu and every time I went back to the folder it had disappeared!!!
The penny finally dropped that I had to delete an existing one as there was a maximum number of items you can have in the menu list - DOH! So deleted one and bingo it's there - it works amazingly well - thanks for your help!!

Dynamite,

Many thanks for an excellent piece of kit!! I had the entire postcode database spread over two SD cards because as you know you TTN can't handle all of them, so I had postcodes for the North of the UK on one card and the rest on another i.e. had to keep swapping SD cards. And it was v ery slow to load TTN2 and to Navigate To.
I have everything now on a 128md card and it is navigating to any postcode almost instantly - fantastic - you are a living legend!

Many thanks

Tom

ttrevor · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:34 am Post subject:

Hi, this seems like a good program to have Thumbs Up

can i load this onto a cf memory card that i have in my CF slot or does it have to be on the same SD TT2 maps card where my maps are stored?

thanks

trevor
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omaruk · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:02 pm Post subject:

Fanatstic program, really should be a sticky on the forum and should also be in the PocketGPS news and downloads sections. So come on forum administrators do your bit. Thumbs Up

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