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Table of Contents
1. Installation and Getting Started
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1.1. Introduction
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1.2. System requirements
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1.3. Installation
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1.3.1. ActiveX and DLL components
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1.3.2. Installing the Visual Basic−specific parts
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1.3.3. Installing the Visual C++−specific parts
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1.3.4. Points of interests
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1.3.5. Desktop Computer
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1.4. License
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1.4.1. ATTENTION
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1.4.2. LICENSE AGREEMENT
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1.4.3. MANUFACTURER’S WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
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1.5. Technical Support
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2. Providing your own Points of Interest to TomTom Navigator
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2.1. Installing a POI database
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2.2. How to make POI databases
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2.3. Converting to Navigator format
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2.4. OV2 File Structure
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3. Itinerary files
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3.1. Itinerary file format
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3.1.1. Fields in itinerary files
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3.1.2. Flags in itinerary lines
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3.2. Using itineraries
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4. Extending the Location−sensitive Menu
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4.1. About external commands
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4.2. Capabilities files
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4.2.1. Format of the .CAP file
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4.2.2. Format of the .TMT files
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4.3. External POI files
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4.4. Format of the requests to external applications
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5. Communicating with TomTom Navigator from Visual Basic
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5.1. Introduction
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5.2. Supported API calls
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5.2.1. Function GetSdkVersionInfo( ) As String
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5.2.2. Function GetNavigatorVersionInfo( ) As String
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5.2.3. Sub BringNavigatorToForeground( )
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5.2.4. Sub SwitchToNavigatorView( )
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5.2.5. Sub TryCloseCurrentOpenedDialogs( )
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5.2.6. Sub SwitchMap( String As aFileName)
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5.2.7. Sub GetLocationInfo( aLongitude As Long, aLatitude As Long)
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5.2.8. Sub NavigateToCoordinate( aLongitude As Long, aLatitude As
Long, aName As String)
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5.2.9. Sub ClearFavorite( aFavorite As Long)
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5.2.10. Sub SetFavorite( aFavorite As Long, aName As String,
aDescription As String, aLongitude As Long, aLatitude As Long)
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