Let me begin by saying that if you have (or can get) TTexplorer working on your TT, do not bother reading this thread. If you have no need to ?modify? your TT while away from your PC, read no further. Also, this first post is more about ?why?, and will be followed in the very next post with ?how?.
Why:
I have a need to rename files and edit text (config.txt files) on my TT ONE XL while away from my PC.
Thanks to ?Roussillat?, I am using ?Tripmaster? and ?Offroad? (Nice work and thanks!). Thanks to ?The Spook? I also have the screen ?capture? working. To keep things simple while driving, I am also running TTmenu (thanks ?Birdman? for the great instructions), and the custom menu generator ?menutt.mnu? (thanks Greg Duncan). Here is the downside of having so much more than just a GPS to play with; Things need to change from time to time! I don?t always want to do screen captures when I touch the upper left portion of my screen, so, I need to rename the ?capture? file in the ?Screen? directory to keep that from happening. I also like to change the way Tripmaster drops ?breadcrumbs? (time, distance, & direction variables), and that can?t be done without a text editor on my TT. Then there is the need to bypass the ?menuTT.mnu? file to disable the custom menus and regain access to some of the original TT menu features that I left off the ?simplified? custom menu structure (a temporary requirement until I can become more organized). If I have access to my PC then all this is a no brainer. If TTexplorer worked on my TT ONE XL, none of this would be an issue. But, TTexplorer does not work on my TT yet (I?m sure ?Roussillat? will get around to making it work eventually). So after posting my frustrations elsewhere on this forum, I decided that it was about time I tried to solve my own problems and not just sit and wait for somebody much smarter than me to come up with a better ?tweak?.
The first problem is there is no text editor in the variation of linux that is on the TT ONE XL. The second problem is that even if there were one, there is no keyboard (or console if you prefer) to do the editing with. Both problems can be resolved with bits and pieces of programs taken from http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page . It probably works just fine the way they did it, but I was not smart enough to understand the instructions. So all I really did was strip it down enough to work on my ONE XL, and suit my needs.
I will apologize here and now to all you real programmers and linux users out there, I am just an old mechanical engineer (maybe too old!) and not a ?software guy? by any stretch of the imagination! The only ?O.S.? platforms I have ever worked on (knowingly) are DOS/Windows. I realize that this ?tweak? is very heavy handed, and there must be far more elegant ways to do this. Obviously, I?ve never messed with linux before and I welcome any input from those of you who know way more about this O.S than I ever will!
Ok, enough about ?why?. So if you are still interested (or if you are a real programmer and just want a good laugh), it is time to move on to ?how?.
See the next post in this thread.
Why:
I have a need to rename files and edit text (config.txt files) on my TT ONE XL while away from my PC.
Thanks to ?Roussillat?, I am using ?Tripmaster? and ?Offroad? (Nice work and thanks!). Thanks to ?The Spook? I also have the screen ?capture? working. To keep things simple while driving, I am also running TTmenu (thanks ?Birdman? for the great instructions), and the custom menu generator ?menutt.mnu? (thanks Greg Duncan). Here is the downside of having so much more than just a GPS to play with; Things need to change from time to time! I don?t always want to do screen captures when I touch the upper left portion of my screen, so, I need to rename the ?capture? file in the ?Screen? directory to keep that from happening. I also like to change the way Tripmaster drops ?breadcrumbs? (time, distance, & direction variables), and that can?t be done without a text editor on my TT. Then there is the need to bypass the ?menuTT.mnu? file to disable the custom menus and regain access to some of the original TT menu features that I left off the ?simplified? custom menu structure (a temporary requirement until I can become more organized). If I have access to my PC then all this is a no brainer. If TTexplorer worked on my TT ONE XL, none of this would be an issue. But, TTexplorer does not work on my TT yet (I?m sure ?Roussillat? will get around to making it work eventually). So after posting my frustrations elsewhere on this forum, I decided that it was about time I tried to solve my own problems and not just sit and wait for somebody much smarter than me to come up with a better ?tweak?.
The first problem is there is no text editor in the variation of linux that is on the TT ONE XL. The second problem is that even if there were one, there is no keyboard (or console if you prefer) to do the editing with. Both problems can be resolved with bits and pieces of programs taken from http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page . It probably works just fine the way they did it, but I was not smart enough to understand the instructions. So all I really did was strip it down enough to work on my ONE XL, and suit my needs.
I will apologize here and now to all you real programmers and linux users out there, I am just an old mechanical engineer (maybe too old!) and not a ?software guy? by any stretch of the imagination! The only ?O.S.? platforms I have ever worked on (knowingly) are DOS/Windows. I realize that this ?tweak? is very heavy handed, and there must be far more elegant ways to do this. Obviously, I?ve never messed with linux before and I welcome any input from those of you who know way more about this O.S than I ever will!
Ok, enough about ?why?. So if you are still interested (or if you are a real programmer and just want a good laugh), it is time to move on to ?how?.
See the next post in this thread.