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is tht why I got problem with version : POI Scanner V. 1,7.

Get two error windows when I drive to a alert point and it dosent work

the first on are:
C:\Windows\system32\sndvol32.exe

Coulden`t find C:\Windows\system32\sndvol32.exe. control the
name and try agin


the second one are:

AutoIt error:

Line-1:

Error: Unable to execute the external program.

Coulden`t find the file.

do anybody have some solution on this problem for me????

POI Scanner Version 1.8.0
for MS S&T 2006 to 2009 with Vista and XP. Plus Autoroute 2007.
Other versions of Windows are untested.


Adds compatibility with
Street & Trips 2006-2009 on Vista.
Fixes bug with year 2008 of beta001
Download zip file below

Source code included

Attached Files

toyfountain_POI_Scanner_1_8_00_2006-2009.zip (646.7 KB, 26 views)

Wow, excellent description of a problem. It helps to id the bug.
I had the same error when using v1.7 with Vista. 1.7 was written on an XP machine and MS modified the name of the volume player for Vista.

from C:\Windows\system32\sndvol32.exe
to C:\Windows\system32\sndvol.exe

The beta 1.8 should work on Vista with 2009 and 2006. I haven't had time to test for 2008 yet, nor do extensive tests yet. Give it a try and please tell me if you still get bugs.

I've replaced the beta file above with version 1.8.
The POI Scanner version 1.8 should work now with years 2006 to 2009 on both Vista and XP. I also programmed it for other OS versions (98, 2000 and ME), but can't test it since I don't have these versions of Windows.

Nice! A question: Does your new version of POI Scanner work with the new 2009-style pushpins, or users need to import the old-style pushpins to their Streets & Trips for POI Scanner to work?

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The POI Scanner works with the four included circular push pins that are in the zip file. It recognizes the color pixels of these push pins.

If you're comfortable creating bmp images, custom push pins can be created by using pixels of the included push pins. I steered away for using the S&T push pins because I didn't want to have copyrights issues with anyone. This is the reason for using a plain circular push pin instead of the nice S&T push pins.

toyfountain - with this latest release(v 1.8), is there a specific icon(pushpin) that can be used to simulate the gps "car symbol" or is the only way to test the program to activate the gps function and take it on the road ? thanks - hrp

For the easiest of use, you need to use one of the four circular images included in the download and import them as pushpins. The POI Scanner detects these four colors in the map.

You could customize your preferred car symbol. Just copy and paste a section of the color you want in your preferred car symbol from of the included images. I've done it for myself with a few of the old S&T pushpins, but I can't make them available for public download since they are copyrighted material. I would need permission from Microsoft to do this.