Thread: iGO Primo & iGO Primo Nextgen kmlpoi icons

Hello!

I am building my own KML files for various points of interest (truck parkings with showers, revolution laundry locations, etc).
While looking into branding.zip archive, for the WINCE, I noticed the following files, for Rest Area Parking for example:

Spoiler: ui_igo9/icons/POI/poi.icons

[Parking.Rest_Area]
$poi_mapdistant.bmp
$Poi_Brand_A.spr 8
$Poi_Brand_A.spr 8
poi_group.spr 54
$Poi_Brand_A.spr 8
poi_hwy.spr 4
poi_hwy_disabled.spr 4

What I have noticed is that the spr files are text files with some options inside them:

Spoiler: Poi_Brand_A.spr

BmpFlags = 0
DefFlags = ALPHA_PIXEL | ALPHA_LAYER | GRAB_BOTTOM | GRAB_HCENTER
DefPhase = 1
Stripes = 60

The bmp files are not bmp icons, as I cannot view them with regular image viewer.
What I noticed about them is that they have transparent background, one thing which I am most interested of.

On iGO Nextgen, the spr files are missing.

What I want to do and I don't know how and if it is possible:

• On both platforms, I would like to define rules just as the ones defined in branding/ui_igo9/icons/POI/*.icons for the KMLPOI files from content/userdata/poi, such that the placemarks from those files would be displayed with different icons, just as the normal POI's from the regular map files can be displayed. I want to have different icon for map display, enabled category, mapdistant, and disabled.
• On WINCE I want to be able to add transparent background to the icon I chose for my placemarks. WINCE is unable to read 32 bit BMP files with alpha channel. I tried to use BLACK and MAGENTA as background, but no success.
• Regarding WINCE bmp files from branding.zip, I would like to know what actually are those files.

Attatched below you can find the two branding archives for the two iGO versions.

Spoiler: brandings

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Thank you in advance for the answers!