Changing road colours?

prusling · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:38 am Post subject: Changing road colours?

It seems to be possible to adjust various features of CP5 in the cfg files, and these include the colours in which roads are displayed.

I'd like to use the more conventional colours for UK roads (blue for motorways, red for trunk roads); has anyone worked out the values for different colours?

Cheers, Peter

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject:

Not sure I understand what you are asking for. Do you need to know the structure of the entries in the styles.cfg or do you want to know the color values?
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KenS · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 73

Looking at the file it seems primary colours can be named (RED, GREEN, BLUE, BLACK, WHITE) otherwise the last 6 digits in the hex code are RGB (Red Green Blue) codes. For example for purple you need red and blue which is coded in hex as 0x00ff00ff where 0x means it is a hex code, the first 00 is just a filler, the first ff means full red, the second 00 means no green and the last ff means full blue. Put it together and you get purple (or Magenta for the techncially inclined).
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prusling · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:52 am Post subject:

Thanks, KenS

Spot on - and with the help of a great utility at http://www.proffs.nu/rgblab.htm I now have blue motorways, red A roads, better colours on my PDA for park areas and water, and I use the background colour from the PC version on my PDA which is less glaring. I also have road names that are smaller but more readable, although its frustrating that the box they appear in is larger than necessary, and I can't see a way to fix this.

If anyone wants to try this out, I can tell you the values I changed.

I think the parameterisation of CoPilot is a great feature; obviously one needs to take care when editing the files, and you need to be able to revert to safe values.

Has anyone discovered any other end-user tailoring options - e.g. in the preferences file?

Cheers, Peter

lbendlin · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:48 am Post subject:

yes - have a look at the road speed tweaking thread.
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gripp · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject:

>> If anyone wants to try this out, I can tell you the values I changed.

I would be very interested to see a copy of your styles.cfg file.
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Skippy · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I have done this on my smartphone.

Motorways are now blue, A roads Green and B roads Red. Residental streets are now thin and black rather than the low contrast grey they used to be. I also made the roads a lot thinner which looks nicer in my opinion.

The colour scheme is reversed to what you would think it is. You can change the numbers by altering the colour name or the 0x00BBGGRR value where RR GG and BB are the hex values between 00 and FF denoting the percentage of that colour to use. I don't know what the first 00 does. Anyone?

I will put a copy of my styles.cfg up on a web page if there is any interest. I guess there should be a disclaimer that messing around with your .cfg files could potentially break your system. So back them up first! DOH! 8O
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lbendlin · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

prusling · Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject:

Please pm me your e-mail address if you want a copy of my styles file.

Pete

prusling · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

Changes I made (pm me your e-mail for the whole file)

[Basic\LandArea] from white to slightly darker colour used in PC version
"BrushColor"=0x00ffffff to "BrushColor"=0x00d2e9e9
"PenColor"=0x00ffffff" to PenColor"=0x00d2e9e9

[Basic\ParkAreas] to a darker green
"BrushColor"=0x00b3fbd5 to "BrushColor"=0x0086ff86

[Basic\RailLines] from grey to black but doesn’t seem to have any effect
"PenColor"=0x00c0c0c0" to PenColor"="Black"

[Basic\Road\DividedThin] “A” roads outer to Red
"PenColor"=0x0025a2f2" to PenColor"="Red"
[Basic\Road\DividedThin\DividedThickInner] and inner to Pink
"PenColor"=0x008ff8ff" to PenColor"=0x008080ff

[Basic\Road\EuropeMotorway] Legend smaller but bold
"FontHeight"=9" to FontHeight"=8
"FontWeight"="REGULAR" to "FontWeight"="Bold"

[Basic\Road\EuropeState] “A” road legend changed
"BrushColor"=0x0060a060 to "BrushColor"="Red"
"FontColor"="YELLOW" to "FontColor"="White"
"FontHeight"=9" to FontHeight"=8
"FontWeight"="REGULAR" to "FontWeight"="Bold"

[Basic\Road\EuropeTertiary] “B” road legend changed
"BrushColor"="WHITE" to "BrushColor"=0x0040a2cf
"FontColor"="BLACK" to "FontColor"="White"
"FontHeight"=9 to "FontHeight"=8
"FontWeight"="REGULAR" to "FontWeight"="Bold"

[Basic\Road\InterstateThin] Motorways outer to Blue
"PenColor"=0x000c43e0 to "PenColor"="blue"
[Basic\Road\InterstateThin\InterstateThickInner] and inner to pale blue
"PenColor"=0x0051f1ff" to PenColor"=0x00ff8080

[Basic\UrbanAreas] From white to grey but doesn’t seem to have any effect
"BrushColor"=0x00ffffff to "BrushColor"=0x00c0c0c0
"PenColor"=0x00ffffff to "PenColor"=0x00c0c0c0

[Basic\Water] to a darker blue
"BrushColor"=0x00f8cdb8 to "BrushColor"=0x00ffdb90
[Basic\WaterAreas] to a darker blue
"BrushColor"=0x00f8cdb8 to "BrushColor"=0x00ffdb90

Damian_27 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2003 Posts: 15

Hi,

This seems a great idea...but (for the novice) how do you do it? Do you copy the file onto a PC and paste back over the master? If so, which application do you edit the file in?

I guess the worst case if I get it wrong is to have to reinstall Co-Pilot and its settings. Would be worth the risk to get the road colours more like the traditional road mapping colours.

Any info greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Damian

gripp · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:07 pm Post subject:

Make a backup copy of your original styles.cfg.
Then copy the styles.cfg from the PDA to a temp directory on the PC. Edit it there with Notepad. Then copy the edited file back to the original directly on the PDA.
I've been experimenting myself this evening and it's really not too frightening!!
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lbendlin · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:

Alternatively you can use Pocket Notepad to do the changes directly on the Pocket PC.
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Robin2 · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:

Peter,
Thanks for the details. It worked well on my PDA and looks much nicer. After editing in Notepad and saving, the title of the file is styles.cfg.txt It is necessary to delete the final .txt before overwriting the styles.cfg file in CoPilot.
Have you found out why the grey urban areas and black railway lines don't work?
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Skippy · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:02 am Post subject:

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