How to get more menu options on models with 'Easymenu'

Aiken Drum · Feb 21, 2011

jerry525 said:
Hi Everybody. Just got my 550 XXL with Easy Menu. Read this thread and loaded ?PARIDER?S? custom menu.

For the most part it works great! However there are two things that perhaps someone can help me with.

FIRST QUESTION:

When I click on the Compass, I get the following choices
? None
? One with arrow pointing north
? One with arrow showing your heading
? One with arrow pointing to your destination (Then ?Done?)

I select ?One with arrow showing your heading? and select ?Done?

When I navigate, however, the car icon and roads do not line up with my direction of travel. When I return to ?Compass?, I find that the choice has reverted back to ?None

When I select the option I want and then ?Done? and then go right back to the ?Compass? icon and select it again, my choice has been ignored and the option has reverted back to ?None?

Anyone else have this problem? Can I eliminate the three choices I will never use and keep the choice I want to use? (How?)

You won't have the compass on the XXL550. The coding isn't in the navcore.

jerry525 said:
SECOND QUESTION:

I copied and pasted the TomTom.mnu to the sdkregistry and added it to the root directory.

Here is how my menus appear. The following is the start menu when the device starts up. The rest of the icons and pages follow:

Navigation:

Plan route
Change Route (Grayed out)
Avoid Part of Route (Grayed out)
Clear Route (Grayed out) (Then right arrow for next screen)

As you can see, most of the icons are displayed and work. Four of them on the ?Navigation? page are grayed out and selecting them does nothing. Any thoughts?

If you plan a route those grayed out options should be available, when there is no route planned they will be grayed out until you plan a route.

jerry525 · Feb 22, 2011

Thanks Aiken for your quick reply. Much appreicated and the grayed out option lit up when I planned a route. Not being able to choose having the map turn so your direction of travel is always up is a real bummer. What were they thinking?

jerry525

jerry525 · Feb 22, 2011

XXL 550 "Favorite" route changes every time

Just got the XXL 550. Another question I can't resolve.

I decided to add a favorite. I put in the address and it calculated a route.

Since I'm familiar with the destination, I wanted to take the toll free freeway rather then a parallel road near it.

So I choose "Change Route" then "Travel Via" and "Address". Then I entered the two hwy intersections to put me on the free way. It then recalculated the route using the freeway I wanted and the route was then correct. Then I selectrd "Done".

To test the new favorite, I selected "Plan Route" then "Favorite" then I chose the Favorite I just created.

The XLL 550 got busy planning the route and when it displayed, it was the original route not the corrected route I wanted to take. (No toll road issues).

How do you "SAVE" a correction to a route you have in "Favorites" and not have it re create the orginal route that it first calculated? How do you get it to recognize the corrections to that favorite route and use the corrected route from then on?

jerry 525

dhn · Feb 22, 2011

You can't. If you want to go by a specific route and use that route every time, you need Itinerary Planning where you can set up to 48 waypoints.

I do not think your model has that functionality.

Aiken Drum · Feb 22, 2011

jerry525 said:
Just got the XXL 550. Another question I can't resolve.

How do you "SAVE" a correction to a route you have in "Favorites" and not have it re create the orginal route that it first calculated? How do you get it to recognize the corrections to that favorite route and use the corrected route from then on?

jerry 525

Welcome to the world of "what the xxl550 doesn't do"
It looks like you have Itinerary Planning in your custom menu, I have used the Itinerary Planning to force TT to take a certain route but first you have to make an itinerary.

Here is how I do it on mine.

Go to TomTom itinerary generator

Zoom all the way out and then drag the part of the world you want to the center of the screen using your mouse.

Zoom in to where you want to be. Click your mouse on your starting point and it will show the gps coordinates in the window. Follow your route and click the road every few miles to get another waypoint(set of coordinates) Continue until you get to your destination. I think you can have up to 48 waypoints in an itinerary but I've never been that high. You will end up with a bunch of waypoints in the window. *Try to click right on the road you want to be on, on the correct side if it's a 4-lane (if possible that is)*

Now all you do is copy and paste the waypoints into a file on your computer, name the file whatever you want but the extension(last three letters after the dot) needs to be .itn , it will look like myroute.itn (as an example)

Now copy the file to your tomtom, it needs to get copied to the itn folder.

That route should now be available under Itinerary Planning on the TT.

I have my TT set to degrees(that's an option on the TT gps status page under "configure") as that is how the itinerary generator displays them on the web page.

Don't set your TT to avoid highways like the website suggests (in it's help) as that will override an itinerary that uses highway waypoints. (you would encounter that bit of info by clicking help)

Al least that's how I force my XXL550 to do what I want it to do. It's easier than I make it sound.

If you do this and have questions just post it here for answere.

jerry525 · Feb 24, 2011

Again, thanks for your help Aiken. It worked!

Jerry525

Aiken Drum · Feb 24, 2011

jerry525 said:
Again, thanks for your help Aiken. It worked!

Jerry525

Your welcome, glad it worked

Hishighness · Mar 2, 2011

Does anyone know where you can find a list of all of the commands with a description for each saying what it does? I know about the list at OpenTom but I'm new to this and half of the options I don't know what they are.

Thanks.

dhn · Mar 2, 2011

Welcome to TTF.

What kind of list and for what model are you referring?

Hishighness · Mar 2, 2011

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I'm looking for this.

TASK_NONE
TASK_EMPTY
TASK_MENU_PREFERENCES <- this item call automatically block_pref menu block (see example).
TASK_SWITCH_ASN
TASK_SET_VOICE
TASK_SET_LANGUAGE
TASK_SET_DIST_UNITS
TASK_SET_CLOCK_TYPE
TASK_SET_GEO (1)
TASK_SWITCH_TIPS
TASK_SET_VOLUME
TASK_SWITCH_SOUND
TASK_SHOW_STATUS
TASK_SHOW_GPS_STATUS
TASK_SET_BRIGHTNESS
TASK_SET_BACKLIGHT (2)
TASK_RESET_SETTINGS
TASK_SWITCH_BLUETOOTH
TASK_SWITCH_CLOCK (1)
TASK_LEFTHANDED
TASK_ROTATE_DISPLAY
TASK_SET_KEYBOARD_SIZE <- if you use this, keyboard_type is automatically used after.
TASK_SET_KEYBOARD_TYPE
TASK_SET_PROMPT (2)
TASK_SET_COMPASS
TASK_SET_STATUS
TASK_SWITCH_NIGHTVIEW
TASK_SET_COLOR_SCHEMES
TASK_SET_DAY_COLOR_SCHEME
TASK_SET_NIGHT_COLOR_SCHEME
TASK_CHANGE_HOME_LOCATION
TASK_MAINTAIN_FAVORITES
TASK_ADD_FAVORITE
TASK_SET_SAFETY_SPEED (1)
TASK_SWITCH_2D3D
TASK_SET_MAP
TASK_DELETE_MAP
TASK_SHOW_MAP
TASK_SET_HIDEMAP
TASK_SWITCH_POI
TASK_CONFIGURE_POI
TASK_MAINTAIN_POI
TASK_MENU_RECALC_BLOCK
TASK_AVOID_ROUTE_LINE
TASK_PLAN_VIA
TASK_MENU_FIND_ALTERNATIVES
TASK_ASK_CHANGE_OWNER (1)
TASK_MENU_TRAFFIC
TASK_TRAFFIC_SETTINGS
TASK_TRAFFIC_ENABLE
TASK_TRAFFIC_UPDATE
TASK_TRAFFIC_REPLAN
TASK_TRAFFIC_VIEW
TASK_TRAFFIC_EXPLAIN
TASK_NAVIGATE_TO
TASK_MENU_PLAN_ATOB
TASK_DELETE_ROUTE
TASK_CONFIRM_DELETE_ROUTE
TASK_SET_TOLL
TASK_SET_PLANTYPE
TASK_SET_CRADLE
TASK_SHOW_ROUTE_DEMO
TASK_MENU_ROUTE_INSTRUCTIONS
TASK_SHOW_ROUTE_INSTRUCTIONS
TASK_STEP_ROUTE_INSTRUCTIONS
TASK_ABOUT
TASK_ITINERARY
TASK_TUTORIAL
TASK_EXIT_APP
TASK_SET_NAME_DISPLAY
TASK_SHOW_WEATHER
TASK_MANAGE_MAPS
TASK_MENU_DOWNLOAD
TASK_DOWNLOAD_MAP
TASK_DOWNLOAD_POI
TASK_DOWNLOAD_VOICE
TASK_DOWNLOAD_SCHEME
TASK_DOWNLOAD_VERSION_NUMBER
TASK_SERVICE_LOGIN (2)
TASK_HELP_GENERAL
TASK_HELP_MAINMENU
TASK_HELP_MAPBROWSER
TASK_HELP_ZOOMING
TASK_HELP_TRAFFIC
TASK_HELP_ITINERARY
TASK_HELP_PLANNING
TASK_MENU_PHONE
TASK_PAIR_WITH_PHONE (1)
TASK_DIAL_POI
BLOCK_MAIN
BLOCK_PREF
TASK_SDK (or TASK_SDK(n) see below)
TASK_PAGE (better: TASK_PAGE(n))
TASK_PHONE_MENU

But with a description for each item saying what it does. The website it's from Menu structure - OpenTom has some of them described but doesn't have others.

Edit: I have a Tom Tom Ease

Aiken Drum · Mar 5, 2011

Hishighness said:
Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

I'm looking for this.

But with a description for each item saying what it does. The website it's from Menu structure - OpenTom has some of them described but doesn't have others.

Edit: I have a Tom Tom Ease

Here are some menu command descriptions from the TomTom SDK
------------------------------------------------------------
3.6. Overview menu items

For more information on TomTom GO menu items, please refer to the manual that is provided with the TomTom GO.

Blocks

There are three blocks that can currently be defined in a menu file:

* BLOCK_MAIN , Main Menu Block
* BLOCK_PREF, Preferences Menu Block
* BLOCK_CURSOR, Cursor Menu Block

BTM_options

At block-level, the following items can be defined to be shown at the bottom of the screen. Each menu-page of that block will show the BTM_options defined for that block.

* BTM_GPS_POSITION , GPS Information
* BTM_DONE , Done Button
* TRAFFIC_INFO , Traffic Information
* BTM_CAM_INFO , Safety cams last updated

Menu Items

The following menu items can be used in the customized menu file for the main menu and the preferences menu.

Special Tasks

* TASK_EMPTY, no task and this option will be shown as a blanc spot in the 6-option menu
* TASK_NONE, no task and no placeholder for it in the menu
* TASK_PAGEn, (n is in the range 1-20) a number identifying the custom menu page *****ATTACH A 24-BIT BMP TO THIS FOR AN ICON*****
* TASK_SDKn, (n is in the range 1-50) a command to be sent to a client application, as defined in a capability file

Navigation

* TASK_AVOID_ROUTE_LINE, Choose part of the route to avoid
* TASK_CONFIRM_DELETE_ROUTE , Clear Route with asking the user confirmation first
* TASK_DELETE_ROUTE, Clear Route immediately
* TASK_ITINERARY , Itinerary planning
* TASK_NAVIGATE_TO , Navigate to
* TASK_MENU_FIND_ALTERNATIVES , Go to "Find alternative" menu
* TASK_MENU_PLAN_ATOB , Advanced planning
* TASK_MENU_RECALC_BLOCK, Go to "Avoid roadblock" menu
* TASK_MENU_ROUTE_INSTRUCTIONS, Show the menu with options for vieuwing route
* TASK_PLAN_VIA, Calculate a route that goes via specified address
* TASK_SET_TOLL, Set the preferences for toll roads
* TASK_SET_PLANTYPE, Set the preferences for route planning
* TASK_SET_CRADLE, Set cradle preferences
* TASK_SHOW_ROUTE_DEMO, Demonstrate planned route
* TASK_SHOW_ROUTE_INSTRUCTIONS, Show the list with route instructions
* TASK_STEP_ROUTE_INSTRUCTIONS, Browse through the route instructions as images
* TASK_SWITCH_2D3D, Switch between 2D and 3D navigation view

Downloads

* TASK_MENU_DOWNLOAD , Download extras
* TASK_MENU_TRAFFIC , TomTom Traffic
* TASK_SHOW_WEATHER , TomTom Weather

Manage Maps

* TASK_DELETE_MAP, Delete a map
* TASK_SET_MAP, Choose a current map
* TASK_SET_HIDEMAP, Specifies whether the map should be replaced with a simpler view under certain conditions
* TASK_SHOW_MAP , Browse map

Favourites

* TASK_ADD_FAVORITE , Add favourite
* TASK_MAINTAIN_FAVORITES, Maintain the list of favorites

Preferences

* TASK_CHANGE_HOME_LOCATION, Specify new home location
* TASK_LEFTHANDED, Switch between lefthanded and righthanded UI
* TASK_MENU_PREFERENCES , Change Preferences
* TASK_RESET_SETTINGS, Restore original application settings
* TASK_ROTATE_DISPLAY, rotate display by 180 degrees
* TASK_SET_BRIGHTNESS, Adjust the brightness level for the device
* TASK_SET_BACKLIGHT, Adjust the backlight settings for the device
* TASK_SET_CLOCK_TYPE, Set clock type
* TASK_SET_COLOR_SCHEMES, Choose day and night color schemes
* TASK_SET_COMPASS, Specify how to show the compass in the navigation view
* TASK_SET_DAY_COLOR_SCHEME, Choose day color scheme
* TASK_SET_DIST_UNITS, Choose distance units
* TASK_SET_KEYBOARD_SIZE, Set preferences (size and type) of the on-screen keyboard.
* TASK_SET_LANGUAGE, Choose application language
* TASK_SET_NIGHT_COLOR_SCHEME, Choose night color scheme
* TASK_SET_PROMPT, Specify the additional settings for voice promtps
* TASK_SET_STATUS, Specify the information to show at the bottom of navigation view
* TASK_SET_VOICE, Choose the voice for reading instructions
* TASK_SET_VOLUME, Adjust the voice volume
* TASK_SHOW_GPS_STATUS , Configure GPS
* TASK_SHOW_STATUS, Show route status
* TASK_SWITCH_ASN, Switch accelerometer on/off
* TASK_SWITCH_BLUETOOTH, Enable/disable bluetooth connectivity
* TASK_SWITCH_NIGHTVIEW, Switch to night view mode
* TASK_SWITCH_SOUND, Enable/disable sound
* TASK_SWITCH_TIPS, Enable/disable tips

POI

* TASK_CONFIGURE_POI, Choose which types of POI to show
* TASK_MAINTAIN_POI, Go to POI maintenance menu
* TASK_SWITCH_POI, shows/hides POI

Traffic

* TASK_MENU_TRAFFIC, go to traffic menu
* TASK_TRAFFIC_ENABLE, enable traffic support
* TASK_TRAFFIC_EXPLAIN, help for traffic
* TASK_TRAFFIC_REPLAN, replan current route
* TASK_TRAFFIC_SETTINGS, specify traffic settings
* TASK_TRAFFIC_UPDATE, update traffic information
* TASK_TRAFFIC_VIEW, go to traffic incidents view

Miscellanious tasks

* TASK_ABOUT, show Navigator information screen
* TASK_SET_NAME_DISPLAY, specify naming preferences for map/navigation views
* TASK_BUDDIES, go to buddies menu
* TASK_EXIT_APP , Reboot the TomTom

Downloads

* TASK_DOWNLOAD_MAP, Download map
* TASK_DOWNLOAD_POI, Download POI
* TASK_DOWNLOAD_VOICE, Download voice
* TASK_DOWNLOAD_SCHEME, Download color scheme
* TASK_DOWNLOAD_VERSIONNUMBER, Upgrade the Navigator application
* TASK_MANAGE_MAPS, Go to "Manage maps" menu
* TASK_MENU_DOWNLOAD, Go to "Downloads" menu
* TASK_SERVICE_LOGIN, Perform login to the TomTom Plus services
* TASK_SHOW_WEATHER, Get the current weather information

Help

* TASK_HELP_GENERAL, General help
* TASK_HELP_ITINERARY, Help for itinerary
* TASK_HELP_MAINMENU, Help for the main menu
* TASK_HELP_MAPBROWSER, Help for the map view
* TASK_HELP_PLANNING, Help for route planning
* TASK_HELP_TRAFFIC, Help for traffic
* TASK_HELP_ZOOMING, Help for zooming
* TASK_TUTORIAL , Guided tour

Phone

* TASK_DIAL_POI, Dial the POI
* TASK_MENU_PHONE , Mobile phone
* TASK_PAIR_WITH_PHONE, Connect to the phone via Bluetooth

Multimedia

* TASK_MULTIMEDIA, Go to multimedia menu
* TASK_JUKEBOX, Go to jukebox menu
* TASK_IPOD, Go to IPod control
* TASK_IMAGE_BROWSER, Go to image library
* TASK_DOC_BROWSER, Go to document reader

The following menu items can be used in the customized menu file for the map cursor menu.

Cursor menu

* TASK_PLAN_TO_MAPLOC, Navigate to map cursor location.
* TASK_NEARBY_POICAT, Find POI near map cursor location.
* TASK_CENTER_ON_MAP, Center map on map cursor location.
* TASK_DO_ADD_FAVOURITE, Add map cursor location as favourite.
* TASK_CURSOR_INTO_POI, Add map cursor location as POI.
* TASK_TRAVEL_VIA, Travel via map cursor location.

*****************TWO NEW ADDITIONS 3-27-2011********************
BTM_CAM_INFO , Safety cams last updated
TASK_EXIT_APP , Reboot the TomTom

beachnut · Mar 6, 2011

Aiken Drum · Mar 6, 2011

beachnut said:
try this> on 550xxl tm. copy between ****** and paste in SdkRegistry. Page 1is null page. Page 2 through 5 are shortcut menu's to commands. Page 6 through 20 are command menu's which can be serially scrolled. Page 9 and 10 are special. Nine (9) is written to skip page 10. THIS IS BECAUSE: calling page ten always results in opening the route correction features. Calling page ten by itself (no actual page ten) gives this result and breaks scrolling. A call to page 10 is on page 14/15. This lets you get to route correction if you want to. Where the next page buttons will take you is indicated in legend at top of screen. As written some features are available in several places so there is room to cut the menu down some.

May be confusing at first so play with it. Would like to label the page buttons but can't make label's show. This custom menu lets you use itinerary planning. A neat way to use itinerary: Get a copy of GPSBabel (freeware) file converter for gps data. Use whatever map service to make a route and translate it to an itn file for tomtom and place it in the itn folder. You can then load the saved route using the itinerary function. Microsoft streets gives a gpx file that can be saved and translated to itn. Google maps will download points on map directly to TomTom but seems to do only one stop a route.

Thanks for sharing this. On page 3 of this thread Mikealder references a way to add bmp's and text to the menu commands. You can change the page button on the MENUITEM|TASK_PAGE*| to a 24-bit bmp. I just verified that it works but could not insert text under the new button, but you could insert text into the button using paint or other programs. I just tried it using the 89 X 60 "options.bmp" button that genci88 posted there, you may be able to go a little bigger on the button size to fit more text in it.

beachnut · Mar 6, 2011

icon change works for next page button also

genci88 said:
Thanks for the reply. I tried that, but it doesn't work. I opened the file in Photoshop, and saved it as a 16-bit bmp (smallest available option).

MENUITEM|TASK_MENU_PREFERENCES|"Options.bmp"|"Preferences"|

This is the actual Options.bmp file (Imageshack autoconverted it to png after I uploaded it):

The text is updated, but the picture is not. I still get a blank spot where the picture is supposed to be.

used this for next page button in menu. will have to make icon for each page or function.

mikealder · Mar 6, 2011

Have a look at the attached zip for a few ideas - Mike

c_wolsey · Mar 13, 2011

Is it possible just to add one item to the easy menu?

I have been using the full menu tweak for a week now in conjunction with the switchmenu function. It works lovely

What I am wondering is if anyone can thinnk of a way of adding just one of the missing items to the easy menus?

When you use the switchmenu it places a new function in the custom full menus as well as one in the easymenu system called "switch menu". so you can switch between the standard easy menus and custom full menus. This is great but it does require a restart. which is long

The only real reason i switch to custom is for itinerary planning. Is there a way of just adding this function to the easy menu system just like a switchmenu item was added?

It looks to me like it is by adding an item to the sdkregisry with the extension .cap and a corresponding .bmp file to get an icon. This then runs the script in the bin folder that changes the tomtom.mnu file to tom.mnu.

Is there a way that another item (.cap) can be added to just run the "MENUITEM|TASK_ITINERARY|" comand?

Any ideas? help much appreciated.

mikealder · Mar 13, 2011

With the custom menu its all or nothing, if you only add on eline of code to your .mnu file then you will only get a single option in the menu when its launched running custom menu.

Its not possible to add one or two items to the standard menu - Mike

mccririck · Mar 13, 2011

Since you cant use mapshare with the custom menu, is it possible to use the custom menu to change a few settings, then remove the custom menu and still keep these changes, and use mapshare?

mikealder · Mar 13, 2011

If your device supports the "Short Cuts" option you can set a short cut to Map Share then activate the custom menu, when you want Map Share use the short cut, this saves toggling the custom menu on and off.

Carrying out the above means you will lose the "Help Me" function but I have never really seen a need for that, but everything will be available.

You can't add just one or two items to the standard menu you have to create the menu text so it contains a line per option you want on the device. Note some options might not be available from the device due to hardware limitations, for example with the device you have got it would stupid to add any menu items that need the Bluetooth hardware as the hardware isn't physically installed to the device - Mike

mccririck · Mar 13, 2011

ok so I can use the custom menu, but when I want to make a correction when driving I use the Mapshare shortcut?

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