> I've been playing with trying to get Garmin symbols
> between my Garmin 60CSx and Viking 1.2.
>
> Normally I dowload gpx files with gpsbabel from the Garmin
> in file them on my computer. Later with Viking I load
> those files (and maps). Viking has never displayed the symbols,
> but playing around with 1.2 in the waypoint sub layers is a dialog
> for selecting the symbol. The symbols shown are the same ones
> to choose from whether or not I've just loaded the gpx file OR
> I've used Viking to download the GPS layer from my GPS and
> the type is "garmin" in that dialog box.
>
> Yet, when I peruse the source, the images for the the Garmin GPSs
> seem to be there, but they do NOT show up in the above dialog.
> My symbols for most of my waypoints is the Blue Flag and that symbol
> is in the source, but never shows up in the display of symbols to choose
> from. I would think since the "show symbols" box is checked that
> Viking would look up "Flag, Blue" and notice it was a garmin symbol
> and just display it -- so I must be doing something wrong.
>
> Suggestions????
>
Viking has two sets of icons, 'Small' & 'Large' - which one can select via the
global preferences 'Use large waypoint icons'
Unfortunately the graphics of each set is not complete, so for some
combinations - such as in your case of
'Small' and Blue Flag - there is no icon available and so it falls back to just
drawing a dot.
Perhaps one day I'll generate a corresponding large/small icon for the ones
where we have only one of them. This should be quite quick and easy.
I suppose this really should be done for flag/pin/block icons as these tend to
be the default garmin icons.
See garminsymbols.c - line 231 for the blue flag case - here the 5th field of
this struct is NULL as there is no small coloured flag icon. Whereas the 6th
field has an entry for a large icon.
HTH.
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