Tripmaster / Height

Alfie,
Yes, I have the latest versions of both, Tripmaster 3.1 and Offroad 3.0. Working with the "hook", but then I can't get Height to work, then when Height gets going Tripmaster and Offroad flashing again. I guess I need to find the right order to install everything.
Andy

Andy, I still believe the answer is to modify your ttn file using UltraEdit or WordPad.
Have you do this? On a previous post I had only included instructions mentioning the LD_PRELOAD line, and perhaps you left out the other two lines . . . which may have mislead you. Sorry!

Your entire ttn file should look like the three lines below. The modifed third (red) line reflects the correct order of the plugins_hook and the height.so.

#! /bin/sh
rm /mnt/sdcard/plugins_hook/*.hook > /dev/null 2>&1
LD_PRELOAD=/mnt/sdcard/plugins_hook/plugins_hook.so:/mnt/sdcard/Height/height.so ttn

My suggestion would be to make a backup of your 'original' ttn file (e.g. ttn_bak), then go ahead and cut/paste all three of the above lines into your new ttn file. Save it like before, into the root of your TomTom.

Leave all your other programs 'as is' for right now.

I hope I have this correct! Let us know how it works.

Afie,
I tried again, and Height showed up, with Tripmaster and Offroad. The problem was Heights numbers were flickering, and showwing the screen ID rather than the altitude. When I went through the steps to adjust the config file, it did nothing. I then tried to tweak a bit, and the 920 would not turn off, and when I reset it would not go anywhere, until I stated it on the charger, and undid everything through explorer.
So now I'm back to square one, but the TomTom is working, Height is visible, and Tripmaster and Offroad are flashing and unusable. ...and so it goes.

Andy

I've sent the author a request to check in on this thread. We'll see..........

Andy, these abnormalities would be normal at this stage of modification of height -- it would display the screen id. and there would be some flickering, although it doesn't flicker enough to bother me :-)

The next step would have been to replace the below code lines #5 and #6 in the height.cfg file with the id numbers displayed on your TomTom (see my numbers for my device below).

To get both id numbers, change to day - or night - mode (wherever you weren't) and enter those numbers in the below code.

Is that what you did??

x32 # x-position of height-numbers in real pixels, between 0 and about 300-400
y4 # y-position of height-numbers in real pixels, between 0 and about 220-250
h-80.0 # geoidal separation, value will be added to height, meter or feet
mf # mode, "m" for meter, "f" for feet
d19028 # screen identifier for when to display height, day colors
n8500 # screen identifier for when to display height, night colors
s2 # font size, value between "0" (small) and "3" (big).
f0 # font color, "1" = black, "2" = white, "0" = day/night-automatic
al # alignment: "l"eft, "c"enter, "r

I'm excited you were able to get the three programs 'almost' running after the 720 upgrade some years ago. Let us know how you do with the above modification of the height.cfg file changes . . . good luck!

The problem is loading the different shared libaries (files.so) from one single ttn file. Joghurt and Escor (developers of Height and TomPlayer) developed a solution for this using a different method loading shared libaries through ttninit. Roussillat (developer of Tripmaster) doesn't use the ttninit package for now so I think it will never work using the current versions of the 3rd party software. Check out this page: h t t p : / / o p e n t o m . o r g / D a t a B a c k b o n e.