S&T Keys for Streets & Trips 2009 Wish List

MisterMoonlight, thanks for reminding me to look at all the hotkeys available. I guess I still need to study everything that is available. I never use a gps trail while traveling so I have never noticed this behavior. However, the Z hotkey is not available on my number pad so I will try to remember to not use the Ins key.

phays said:

You can see in this picture botttom right four hotkeys: Z,X,C,V. These hotkeys will allow to control the numerous panels on screen. When navigating not in full screen, you can just press the <F4> key than press one of these four keys (Z,X,C,V) to play with the panels (you may also do this by using a touch screen or a mouse by pressing the F4 button on the screen and the buttons near these 4 letters keys)

Hello,

I love the S&T Keys 2009 and we use it while traveling in our RV.

One nice feature would be a quick way to have it show you certain "nearby places" along your route of travel. My specific desire would be gas stations in front of us - say within 50 miles. When doing it manually it looks in a circle from where you are and some are behind you or way off your route of travel. Also, it would be nice to have it filter based on desired category and/or name. I prefer the Flying J's gas stations as they have easy access for RVs, but that's just an example.

Would be very helpful to hit a hot-key that would pop up (or plot on the map) the matches in front of you along your route. Then another hot-key to clear them. Maybe the search values are in an .ini file? That way I could look for upcomming gas stations without driving my rig into the ditch

Thanks for your consideration,
Eric Olsen
Denver, CO.

ericolsen01 said:
There is actually a function to do something similar in S&T Keys 2009 v2.54

Here an abstract from the help page

F10: this hotkey will allow you to find interesting nearby places from S&T Point Of Interest database, around your actual gps location. You can use this function even when navigating in full-screen, by defaut it will locate POI around your actual position for the around distance you used the last time. It will manage the navigation switching mode necessary to make this function posible.

Did you try it?

Just try it once and then change the distance in km/miles you want to look around your current gps position. The next time you will use it, it will remember and look around POI on this distance...

If you were navigating in fullscreen before doing this function, just press F11 after finishing to look the POI and you will return to fullscreen navigation!

MisterMoonlight,

Thanks for working on this for us. I use S&T 2008 and still use Marvin's version. I have quickly scanned your posts and additions to the newer version and I look forward to the new functionality. I am considering buying (if I don't win it first) S&T 2010. Will your current Keys work with the new 2010 version?

Also, has the functionality been added to Keys which would set the start time whenever a route was created/re-created? If not, consider this a vote Especially if this feature could be quickly turned on/off.

I like to schedule my route the night before. NOT establishing the start time allows me to set the arrival time at my first destination and then determine what time i need to leave the office by.

Conversely, once i am on the road, I would prefer real times to be used so i can see and quickly report my ETA to each of my remaining stops for the day.

THANKS!

rcurry71 said:
It has not been updated for the 2010 version yet.

The latest version supported at this time is the 2009 version...

It'd be nice to have a hotkey that takes you to a user-defined zoom level.

LineChaser said:

Well it is not a bad idea. The problem is that i don't see how it can be implemented easily and reliably. There is still a problem with the increment zooming function of the S&T Keys tools with the 2009 version because MS changed the main toolbar menu design last year and now the zoom control is not a control that can be easily/directly addressable anymore, especially when driving in fullscreen mode (as can be seen in 2009 known issues).

Too bad

I'm currently using S&T 2010 and really miss being able to use S&T Keys with it, as S&T Keys 2009 is not compatible or at least I can't figure out how to make it work. S&T Keys is an extremely handy add-on. Does anybody know a relatively easy fix to make it useable with the 2010 versioni?

Unfortunately there is no an easy fix. Each version of Streets and Trips is very different as far as S&T Keys is concerned. A lot of code rewriting is needed to make each S&T Keys version work with each new Streets & Trips release. It only depends on MisterMoonlight if he has the time and energy to continue on with the project.

Alternatively, you could look into learning AutoIt ( AutoIt v3 - Automate and Script Windows Tasks - For Free! ), and you could attempt to modify S&T Keys. You may actually enjoy it. It's not too difficult, one doesn't need to be a programmer to do this, and AutoIt has a helpful manual and even an online forum full of people willing to help.

Thanks Marvin. I will take a stab at it.

Actually i am still working on adding new function for the 2009 version that i will eventually move to the 2010 version i guess. But time is precious and limited for this project...

I can understand the preciousness of time. Thank you!

Hokie said:
Yep real time displayed when navigating, this is a very cool idea and it is now called "calendar navigation mode". This new function will be part of release v2.55.0 of S&T Keys 2009. Yes i know, it has been a long time since this request and maybe not many user will use it with S&T 2009. But i hope i can move the feature to the next version of S&T Keys 2010

See info about this release here:
S&T Keys 2009 v2.55.0 release information