John Cleese 'graphics' display in TT5 voice selection menu

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Although the "John Cleese" voice works perfectly with my iPAQ2210 / TT5 combination, I am puzzled why the corresponding graphics do not display in the voice selection menu.

To compare with Jane:

Silhouette: Female
Flag: Union flag
Legend: The word "female"
Caption: "Jane English UK"

John Cleese:

Silhouette: Female (huh?!)
Flag: A '?' symbol
Legend: The word "female"
Caption: "Special 39"

My iPAQ doesn't have a Voices directory, so all three John Cleese files (data99.bmp, data99.chk, and data99.vif) exist in My documents\tomtom. Note that I renamed the files from '100' to '99' to solve the 'forgotten settings' problem described in another thread but the problem I describe here happened beforehand too.

Of course not having a nice bitmap doesn't really matter a jot, but it bugs me!

Many thanks.

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

I should add that if I open the .bmp file in a graphics editor I get a picture of John Cleese's face together with a Union flag.

Rabdo · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

Why don't you create a voices directory on your SD card and copy all three files there?

rabdo

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work: I created a folder called "Voices" directly against the root of the SD card, but TomTom fails to see the path; John Cleese no longer exists in the list of available voices.

Copying the three files back to their original location restores functionality (apart of course to the problem reported in this thread).

Rabdo · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:

Leodis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2004 Posts: 27

Mines exactly the same mate, just have to go by the number Confused

I think that the bitmaps are for TT Go only.

Leo

julianbarker · Lifetime Member Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 431

Other third party custom voices such as Bonnie, Yoda etc have working graphics on my IPAQ.

SteveW · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:35 am Post subject:

As Rabdo says above, put the three files in a Voices folder directly on the SD card and also make sure you have set up another empty folder called TOMTOM on the SD card. You might find the Postcode function works properly then also.

Steve

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Many thanks. :-)
Much appreciated.

Problem solved by following the advice given; the key was indeed to create an (empty) TomTom folder against the root of the SD card, as well as the Voices folder (also against the root of the SD card) containing the three voice files.

For info I already had postcodes working by manually creating a directory called Zip against "My Pocket PC" in which I placed the Great_Britain.Postal file. I guess from inference that this worked because I also have a directory called TomTom against "My Pocket PC".

Rabdo · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Thanks, Rabdo.

I actually did something similar to this last night; my SysOnChip CF antenna has 256MB storage that I already use to hold GB maps, so I created a TomTom folder and then moved the Zip folder containing the postcodes file. Works a treat.

I do have a similar question though that I would like to ask before I screw anything up; Can the TomTom application be easily moved to the SD or CF card, or is there more to it than cut and paste?

Many thanks,
SjB

floody · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 75

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Thanks for the tip regarding how to move the TT5 application to my CF card. Since doing this I can run the application from my Start / Programs list and from the button assignment that I made, but the Today entry is screwed up.

Instead of the TomTom legend in the Today window I get an empty white rectangle. I guess this is because \TomTom\tttoday.dll (the only file in the \TomTom folder) is no longer valid, but I can't delete it or the folder. When I try, even after a fresh reboot so that TT5 is not running I get a 'locked file' message. I guess the 'lock' is therefore the operating system itself.

How do I uninstall and reinstall this .dll to work with the new CF location of the TT5 application, please?

Thanks as always.

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Some progress; Have managed to unlock file tttoday.dll by unticking the TomTom tickbox in Start/Settings/Today/Items and then deleting the file(and the unwanted \TomTom) directory via file explorer.

Currently trying to find out how to regenerate tttoday.dll pointing to the \Mounted Volume\TomTom location where the application now exists.

SjB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 07, 2005 Posts: 44

Job done.

Copied wzd.cab from the supplied CD to \Mounted Volume\TomTom and then ran it from this location.

TomTom Today functionality restored with the application now moved to CF card from where runtime performance appears to be faster. :-)

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