ScaredyCats Apps Re: Quick Add Camera

DeeSee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 91

Yet another thought (slow brain or what).

To verify whether or not you have a valid menu: Swap around two of the standard entries in your menu. Reboot and see if they are in their new positions.

If they have not changed then you have an invalid menu file and TomTom is defaulting to its own menu. Concentrate on the mnu file until you get to see these two files swapped around.

If they have changed around then the menu is not invalid and you need to look to some of your other additions - SDKRegistry files, Catapps files etc.

DeeSee

jimbokb · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

Its worth a go.
Dieter in germany has had a few goes at the file and gets it so dam close
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forky · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

Boy it will be heaven when this is finally sorted out. Its doing my head in trying to get it right so have given up till there is a definitive answer
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DeeSee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 91

Jimbokb,

Even though I don't use the phone facility, I couldn't see why your menu should be so radically affected so I modded my working mnu on my 300 (which has quickam and all of Scaredy's others except autoswitcher).

My working menu has quickam on the first page but, like your mnu had, it has a greyed out phone for TASK_MENU_PHONE.

I changed this for TASK_DIAL_POI and everything else still worked except the greyed out phone disappeared and the forward arrow moved left one position.

I then tried to guess a name for the phone setup (TASK_SET_PHONE) and put this in. The menu still worked fine except for the greyed out phone disappearing and the forward arrow moving to the left one position.

I am convinced that you have a fault with your menu structure if you can't get quickam on the first page regardless of whether or not the phone works and that TomTom is defaulting to its own menu which is why the phone facility then works and quickam is then back on page 4.

I noticed from your earlier menu that you only had 5 entries on page 2 of your main menu. Maybe not having 6 entries on all but the last page matters (I didn't try this - All mine are full up to my last page which has my TASK_MENU_PHONE).

I do know, however, that the 300 is happy with less than 6 entries on the last page.

Go over your mnu with a fine tooth comb, checking for extra spaces, extra carriage returns, any commas/full stops etc that may have crept in and that it is being saved as tomtom.mnu (there is just a chance that you have inadvertently used mmu again).

Make sure you computer shows extensions as if it doesn't then you may be saving a file in notepad as tomtom.mnu.txt but not seeing the extension (Must admit this is grasping at straws since you have had it working so probably can see extensions).

Just in case you have any earlier menus (regardless of whether or not you have renamed them with different extensions) on your 300, it may be a good idea to look in each directory and delete/take off any you may find so that there is only 1 tomtom.mnu (all lower case - not TomTom.mnu).

Keep us all informed how you are getting on.

DeeSee

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Pocketgps · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:

Thank you Richard, I think I understand what it is now, a new app to give additional menu items/functions on the GO

jimbokb · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

DeeSee

Many thanks for your input & it is good to know that I am not the only person with the Grayed out phone replacing the Connect To Phone icon, I am beginning to wonder if this problem is purely related to the TTG 300 alone.

I have sent my MNU file to many people who just cannot understand why this is happening but it would appear most if not all are using TTG Classic where the Connect To Phone icon is not an issue since the Classic is not Bluetooth enabled.

I have at this time reverted to an mnu file that shows the Quick Add Cam on page four (4 Taps to the screen) while the mnu file shows it to be on page 1 (SDK 1) which while being a pain at least it allows me access to the Connect To Phone option even though in theory this mnu file should not work since it also shows Add Favourites on page 4 when its actually on page 1

I am not bothered where the Connect To Phone icon appears in the menu or what page just as long as it is there and is accessible
Anybody who is unsure what the fuss is about then PM with email address & I will send screenshots
to show visually what I mean.
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Pocketgps · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject:

jimbokb · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject:

DeeSee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 01, 2005 Posts: 91

Hi Jimbokb,

It is clear now what you are doing. You are using the default menu and not any menu you have added.

You are finding connect to phone on page 3 top right and quickam on page 4 are you not?

To verify whether or not this is the case take off your menu from the TT (only tomtom.mnu - leave everything else on) and start it up. You will find the menu you are seeing is the one you have been using for a while and are "resigned to" since it allows you to connect to your phone and still has quickam on it.

This is the TT default menu but with SDKs added at the end.

I have a feeling that no one has cracked the correct task terminology for a menu "connect to phone" task and that what you are running with is the best you can do for now.

The rest of us can use our own menus (with quickam on page 1) because, presumably, we don't need the "connect to phone" facility.

Sooner or later the fog will lift and we will all be able to make the TT do what we want.

DeeSee

jimbokb · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

Yes all is as you say and sadly i have to agree.
I did say that there was something in the Tomtom's own menu that may be conflicting with the mnu and as you say, much as I hate to admit it I am stuck with Quick Add Cam on page 4 in order to access my phone menu.

I will leave things as they are for now.

Thanks for all your help.
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

Doesn't it seem odd that TomTom have released the SDK, but haven't provided this most obvious bit of information, namely the syntax of the menu items?

Has anyone actually tried asking them for it?

jimbokb · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:34 am Post subject:

It takes Tomtom weeks sometime months just to answer a simple question, why would they bother to reply for something so important.

I received an email just the other day from them that I sent in 3 WHOLE MONTHS AGO.
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