GPSing.zip - GPSing v3.4.0.0
MSCOMM32.ocx installer - Required to communicate with GPS.
.NET 2.0 Framework - (Will prompt you to download if not installed during install.)
GPS Receiver - Any NMEA compatible receiver.
To run GPSing with another GPS program or if you use it to hibernate and have issues with the GPS receiver being detected after resume, you can run XPort3. A program written by another www.mp3car.com member that splits the com ports and helps with hibernation issues.
The Gauges and Settings Page
Here you can set what gauges to display and in what units. Also you can select backgrounds and other user defined settings such as font color. To access the settings you double click any of the gauges skins. If you select to show no gauges or use a transparent skin background* (*more on this below), you can still get to settings or exit the program by using the Tray Icon as shown below.
*The Program looks at the gauges bitmap at 0,0 and sets whatever that color is in the bitmap to transparent. So if you choose a all black bitmap the color at 0,0 on that bitmap is black so it sets the whole bitmap to transparent and you will have just floating text. To move the text, you must use a background first such as the default background (uncheck the Use box) to move the gauges to your desired position then check the use box again to use the black bitmap to get back just floating text.
Tray Icon
Allows you to exit the program or display settings screen using the the system tray icon. Also used if no gauges are displayed or user decides to use no gauge background skin.
Speed Alert
Here the gauges are shown with transparency. If speed alert is checked and speed exceeds speed alert selected speed. A red exclamation will flash on the screen to warn you that you have exceeded the set alert speed.
Full Screen Mode
If you double click the speed Gauge text (the numbers themselves), it will activate Full Screen Mode where you will see a large digital display and a bar meter (optional, if checked) that grows as your speed increases. You can set the maximum of the meter. Here I set it to 3 and had the speed go to 1 to show you what it would look like if you set it to 160 and was going 53. To exit Full Screen Mode, just click anywhere on the screen.
Full Screen Mode with user selected bitmap
You can also make your own bitmap and use it in Full Screen Mode. If the bitmap is smaller it will be stretch to fit the full size of the screen. Here I selected a really small bitmap and it stretched it to fill the whole screen.