Map Colours

rjabse · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 22, 2005 Posts: 20

I've just upgraded from a Go500 to a Go720.
I used Suntime on my 500 which worked perfectly and I had my day and night colours set to Belgica and Antartica respectively.
I initially installed Suntime on the 720 and set it up with the same map colours then I read somewhere on here of someone who used Belgica all the time, but with lower brightness at night, which sounds to me like a good idea. I also read that Suntime wasn't necessary on the 720 so removed it.
Now I set both map colours to Belgica with 80% brightness daytime and 5% brightness night-time and it accepts those settings. However next time I switch on the 720 at night it reverts back to Antartica. Crying or Very sad

Any ideas what is causing this ?
I have both 'Turn brightness down when dark' and 'Switch to night view when dark' ticked in the brightness settings.

DennisN · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

Let me know when you find out! I have exactly the same except I haven't ticked to use night colours at night, just dimmer, and I use 100% and 10%. I get really annoyed that it won't keep Belgica, not least because I think Antarctica is rubbish. I've just become resigned to being a dumbo, because no matter what I do, it won't keep Belgica for night colour - I have to change it all over again after every time I connect to PC (NOTE it's only after connecting to PC with me, not every switch on - if I don't connect to PC, it stays Belgica). That's a megga annoyance with three TomToms to do it for. Evil or Very Mad

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Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:08 am Post subject:

That sounds like it could be another case of a config file being set to 'read only'. (Several reports of this being the cause of POI warning settings not being retained) In that case it is "MapSettings.cfg" in the map folder. I've no idea if this is there the map colour preferences are stored, but it sounds likely.
Check the file and folder attributes with Windows Explorer.
Otherwise you could try a "return to factory defaults".

Incidentally, I've always used a dimmed version of the day colours rather than a night colour, even from the early days of the Go300.

I use a brilliant colour scheme called GB_New. You can get it from the Colour Scheme Editor Library, and they also have schemes that match the OS Maps colours or Google Maps.
Might be worth trying one just to see if it stops resetting it, if you've got a custom scheme installed.

My 720 switches over fine, but possibly a BIT early in the evening for my liking. No way to adjust it though....

rjabse · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 22, 2005 Posts: 20

henryg · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2005 Posts: 78

I would hazard a guess that you connected to TTHome at some point. TT have confirmed to me that it is a bug. It's a real PITA having to reset it manually after using TTHome each time.
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rjabse · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 22, 2005 Posts: 20

DennisN · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

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GerryC · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject:

The GB_New.clr scheme and others can be downloaded via Home or from the Colour Scheme Editor website.

They are then copied into the \schemes directory of the TT. Now when you 'Change preferences' | 'Change map colours' | 'Advanced', one of the options is 'Plug-in scheme'. When you select this you are given the list of your custom schemes to choose from.

The 'built-in' schemes are tucked away somewhere but copies can be downloaded from the CSE site to play with as well.

My personal schemes has the roads the same but day/night backgrounds. I suspect I'm not getting similar problems as it doesn't switch automatically so can't help with that.

Hope you don't mind this coming from me and not Andy. Wink

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Oldboy · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject:

Thank you to EVERYONE - Of course I don't mind you joining in Gerry - open forum, the more the merrier - problems get solved that much quicker. Andy won't have seen this just yet, so you've saved me waiting up for him!

I find the GB-New as far as I can see is the same as Belgica. But I really liked the UK_OS and have put that on. Using the colour schemes appears to have solved the problem of reverting to default Antarctica on both 720 and 920. Thanks again.
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rjabse · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 22, 2005 Posts: 20

GerryC · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:49 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:31 am Post subject:

If you want to play, Dennis, download the actual Editor (from the same link I had in my original post - did you miss that?)
It IS just a text file, but the editor gives you a nice front panel, and a sample map, that changes as you tweak, so you can see the effects of what you're doing.

Sorry I'm late, by the way! Laughing

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