Thread: hide speedcam icon

@ioannis0, here is a way to do what you want. Its copied from a word document I wrote for myself so I wouldn't forget, so all the screenshots have fallen off. I'll try to figure out how to add them in later when I have some time but this and a bit of reading around the forum will get you there.

I have to say I've never understood why NNG (and some members of this forum) think I want to have my screen cluttered with icons for hazards which are not on my route

Remove School Zone, Railway Crossing etc. Icons Cluttering the Navigation Screen
For unbranded, unskinned iGO, take a copy of data.zip and save it in a safe place. If you have skins or a branding.zip file you will need to save that too.
ON MY 800x480 WinCE DEVICE the file used for the main navigation screen icons is Speedwarn1.bmp

1. Save an unmolested copy of your data.zip, branding.zip or skin.zip file and keep it safe!
2. Make a working copy of the .zip file and extract all Speedwarn*.bmp files from …\ui_igo9\800_480 to a working directory. If your device is a different resolution change 800_480 accordingly

3. Open Dview and navigate to the working directory containing the Speedwarn*.bmp files. Click on each file to open it and note the file size; 800_480 .bmps are generally (but not always) 50x2048.

4. Using File/Save as, save each .bmp to a new directory as Windows or OS/2 Bitmap (*.bmp)


5.Select File Format: Windows, Depth: 32 bits RGBA8888 and click OK


The file is now converted to Windows .bmp format

6. To identify which .bmp file is used for the navigation screen icons, open (Axialis) Icon Workshop, click on File\open, navigate to the appropriate directory, choose Speedwarn1.bmp (the most likely candidate), and click Open. Pick a tool and colour and deface the image.



7. Save your modified image somewhere as a Windows BMP (*.BMP;*.RLE;*.DIB)



8. Replace the bmp in data.zip. This is most easily done using Total Commander as it avoids problems with formatting. Open your working data.zip in one pane and the directory containing your modified bmp files in the other, then select the modified files and click Copy.



9. Click OK or press Enter


10. Click Overwrite


11.The file is copied

12. Alternative method using Pixelformer. To identify which .bmp file is used for the navigation screen icons, open Pixelformer, click on File\Import, select “All supported file types”, navigate to the appropriate directory, choose Speedwarn1.bmp (the most likely candidate), and click Open.

13. Zoom in to 800% and click the Selection tool. Click and drag the rectangle around the Railway Crossing icon then use the Eraser tool to remove it.

Rectangle Tool

Eraser

Selection Tool

14. In case it makes a difference, scroll down to the school zone icon use the Selection Tool again. This time use the Colour Picker to choose transparent, then use the brush tool to paint over the unwanted icon



15. Click in File/Export and save the modified image as a Windows bitmap



16. Choose Format A8:R8:G8:B8 (32bpp) and click OK



17. Open the modified bmp in Dview and check it is still the same size (in my case 50x2048) as the original. If not, use the edit/scale command to correct the size. If you do this don’t forget to save.


18. The modified .bmp in windows bmp format will be several times the size of the original. If you want you can convert it to NNG bmp format by opening it in Dview and saving it as an NNG bmp.

19. Replace the bmp in data.zip. This is most easily done using Total Commander as this avoids problems with formatting. Open your working data.zip in one pane and the directory containing your modified bmp files in the other, then select the required files and click Copy