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First I would like to say
thanks to Shadowmite and Baffles for their idea of GPS Launcher.
Shadowmite's GPSLauncher and Baffles' GPS Launcher are great gps
launcher but aren't suite my need so I decided to write one
myself.
Shadowmite's GPSLauncher is nice and compact but more work, I need
to launch the application and click the 'Tomtom' to launch it (2
step). I like Baffles' idea when click on it and launch immediately
but unfortunately it use .NET use lot of RAM.
I have issue on both application for tomtom is that when turn off
the screen or someone call in, gps connection get lost and re-click
it to open up the gps port for tomtom.
This AstroGPSLauncher open the gps port and launch 'gps
application'. AstroGPSLauncher will close itself upon 'gps
application' exit in which won't have issue when someone call in or
turn off the phone.
iGuidance has issue with refresh the screen. To get iGuidance work
correctly you need to get GPS Gate to redirect com 4 to com 2 and
use this launcher to launch iGuidanceQVGA.exe, on iGuidance set to
com 2. This way won't have map refresh issue.
--How to use this AstroGPSLauncher ---
--Copy AstroGPSLauncher to your Main Memory
\AstroGPSLauncher\AstroGPSLauncher.exe
(YOu can copy AstroGPSLauncher to SD Card but you need to change
the path inside the shortcut if you use)
This launcher launch gps application through parameter(if you know
what I meant) . I have provide two shortcuts 'Tomtom Launcher'
which and 'iGuidance Launcher' for your need(Make sure you install
tomtom app or iGuidance to main memory which you should). If you
install on different location, you need to use notepad and edit the
shortcut to correct gps application and icon or you can use 'SK
Shortcut Manager' to create a short that point to your
launcher.
SK Shortcut Manager - New Short cut Instruction
Name = you provide
Command = select AstroGPSLauncher
Parameters = select your gps application
and set icon to your gps application.
BTW, this application only take 2k of RAM (very small) and 10k for
disk memory. It much less memory usage than Shadowmite's
GPSLauncher and Baffles' GPS Launcher
If you like this application, please give some comments.
Thanks to shadowmite cab the file. |