Please make backups of your MSM10USA.dll, New North American Map.stt and
menu.skin files before hacking or replacing them. Don't worry you will
know where they are when you get there.
Setting up Streets & Trips 2005 (I don't know if this will work with
earlier versions)
Then open Streets & Trips and check it out, it gives this dialog box much more
room for fingers on a tiny screen. While you are in there, position the map so
it opens on your home town at a decent zoom level, or wherever you happen to
drive the most. Now drag the Drawing and Standard menus to undock them and place
them out of the way, this way when you open up Streets in Road Runner they will
not take up usable space. Also go to View, Toolbars, Location and Scale and
uncheck it (it seems to remember this option on future openings where as the
other ones, sometimes yes, sometimes no.
For maps that are not as harsh at night and easier to read I the day time, try
changing the map style at View, Map Style, Terane Map, it just works a bit
better (although still not 3D). Now save your template to C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Streets and Trips\Templates as New North American Map.stt
Road Runner
Then for the Front End, Road Runner (a car pc project over at MP3car.com here
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=72 Thanks Guino!) seems well adapted to
customization. Look in the FAQ section to find out how to get the software.
Go ahead and do a regular install, when done open the Road Runner configuration
tool.
Configure it how you like, the only option you will need to select for
this piece will be Hide: Taskbar in the general settings, this will help Streets
retain focus.
Now go to C:\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\BrushMetalHonda (or skin of your
choice but make sure you adjust the coordinates appropriately) and make a backup
copy of menu.skin in case something goes wrong. Now open the file in notepad and
find the line
B06,418,298,369,116,"GPS","GPS"
This is currently line 11, and change it to
B06,418,298,369,116,"LOAD;STREETS.SKIN;Streets;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Streets and Trips\Streets.exe;Microsoft Streets & Trips","Streets"
This will ensure Streets closes when exiting RoadRunner, otherwise it runs in
the background and will most likely ask for a save before closing. Something
that might cause a hang up for your power off cycle, depending on what you are
doing about that.
Download this zip file for the Streets skin files >>
streets-night.zip << version 1.3
Copy the files to your skin directory, they should be
Note: these files are completely new and do not replace any other files so
there is no need to back up your whole skin,
And you should be good to go. I know my skins do not match the brush metal skin,
but they should be easy enough to customize to match if that is desired. This
was more of a “can I get Streets to work in Road Runner?” project. It is still a
work in progress and may change over time as I use it to make it better suited
for the job. As I write this I already see things I want to change but figure I
would get this out there for those who are in a bind with Streets and a CarPC.
Also note, this is the night version of this skin, hence the lack of button
style elements. Why I did this was because I noticed at night when I drive I
don’t see the switch outlines on the dash, just the icons, the day version of
this skin has 3D buttons but it’s not ready yet.
Now open Road Runner and click the GPS icon, it should look like this.
Footnote, these buttons work using Sendkeys, so when you click Zoom In, it is
not sending a “+” but instead a Alt+V, Z, Y, it’s clunky in code but it works
pretty well.
The buttons along the side are:
Exit (the icon is a placeholder for the back screen button I am still working
on)
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Show Navigation Menu (I wanted access to change from the pointer to the hand)
GPS pane
Directions pane
Route Planner pane
Find Places pane
Menu Expand
The Menu expand button will open up into this
This menu includes some of the general RR buttons that I tend to want handy when
I drive so there is less going back and forth through the main menu.
The buttons on the bottom are:
Menu Contract
Music Player
On Screen Keyboard (this is not working correctly yet, it opens the keyboard but
the keyboard only send one letter at a time, so if you typed “123 Oak Drive”
when you get back to Streets all you have is an “e”)
Volume Down
Mute (yes, clicking the volume level screen will mute it)
Volume Up
Rewind
Play/Pause
Fast Forward
Gamma
That’s about it for now, I will be testing this setup for a bit and will update
the information as I go. Currently I am working to embed Audible.com’s book
player right now so it might not get back to this right away.
Things that don't work or I wish worked better and have not figured out how yet: :
If anyone knows how to fix the OSK so it can collect a bunch of input and then
send it all at once, let me know, that would help make this thing totally touch
screen.
Sending keys to turn on GPS when the program launches would be cool too.
Toggle the Hand and Pointer selections with Sendkeys
A touch friendly "avoid area" scheme would be nice too.
I found the registry entries for this at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Automap\
if that helps anyone.
Note: Exiting RR will not always shut down Streets.exe, if you go
into task manager, you my find it running in the background. This could mess up
a shutdown seem if it is waiting for you to answer the Save question.
Solved 11 minutes after this was posted, thanks again to Guino
1.0 Initial release.
1.1 Fixed Streets closing properly when Road Runner is shut down.
1.2 Changed embedding window name to class.
1.3 Changed window name back to Microsoft Streets & Trips but removed Maps -,
this solved the reopening of Streets when a saved map was in use. Requires
changing streets.skin, menu.skin, exit_menu.skin. Streets-readme.txt added to
zip for version control.
