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TYPwiz 7.886

New Feature: Show B on polygons or lines which have a Bitmap.

Lines 00400 and 10A00 have a bitmap which should be removed.

This helps identifying elements which should have their bitmaps removed!

Non Bitmap Elements are faster to process and in lines have a higher (ie more predictable) draworder
Only Not Bitmap Elements can have levels of transparency

Go Settings, Colours / Icons, Add B if Bitmap

TYPwiz 7.885

fixed max values for transparency in polygons; now set to 255 - transparency only works on the latest Garmin devices, ie Alpha 200i .
A bitmap becomes invisible when its polygon values are set to 255. For all other values, the bitmap stays visible..

Not Bitmap Polygons

Bitmap Polygons

Polygon with Alpha 230 (notice missing border)

Fixed various transparency related bugs

TYPwiz 7.882

fixed bug in editor related to solid lines giving wrong colours
fixed various line related bugs in editor
Add a new check to avoid 2 or more colours being the same.

TYPwiz 7.881

fixed bug in editor related to lines and night versions
fixed copying and pasting lines
fixed some memory leaks
fixed having to select the first icon 2x when using SHFT
fixed multiple versions when launched going off screen

TYPwiz 7.874

Various bug fixes in editor
Updated languages
Special thank you to Carlos Dávila for updating Spanish.

TYPwiz 7.87

Dark Mode and Coloured Text Code selected

Add cursor key support to navigate all the icons and press Enter to select & edit an icon
Add support to select day and or night font colours
When Nolabel has been selected, ignore day/night colours in line with recent Garmin developments
Add option to remove all font colours of selected icons
Highlight different aspects of code using different colours
Errors highlighted in RED
Rewritten text editor making it easier & quicker to edit a TYP file
Added support for text outline colours, day and or night, used in modern devices
Added support to try out new unknown option for bitmap polygons found in recent TYP files
Support for group x2 and x3 enlargement of point sizes
Various editor improvements

TYPwiz 7.85

Fixed issue when saving some polygons as text
minor bugs fixed

TYPwiz 7.82

Automatically show all languages contained in a TYP file on main screen
Single click to change preferred language

TYPWiz 7.80

Some of Garmin's latest TYP files include polygons with levels of opacity, ie TOPO France V6 PRO,TOPO Sweden V6 PRO,Openstreet based Bike Maps.
Support for this feature has been added.
Notification of any future Garmin additions in a TYP file regarding polygons has been included.
Added T to indicate transparent night colours for polygons and lines
Garmin TOPO typ files often contain numerous 'empty' draworders the purpose of which is not clear. When editing a polygon draworders are sorted and this can take a long time. We've added an option to press the ESC key to exit the empty draworder sorting process.
In Settings/All Settings/Advanced tick Mark Alpha Polygons to quickly see which polygons have opacity,
Fixed error when borders are set to 0 and night colours still contain a border colour.
Various code improvements.

TYPWiz 7.72

Fixed draw order view when right clicking on polygons
In settings,Elements added option to reset new elements from Garmin custom elements; these are not indexed and hence do not appear in a search BUT should be visible on all Garmin devices. Clcik Garmin Custom buttons.

TYPwiz 7.71

Fixed issue when Garmin condenses POI stream when night and day bitmaps are the same.
Fixed issue when the wrong colour becomes dominant whilst converting bitmap to non bitmap in the editor
Fixed parsing Garmin POI non-bitmaps occasionally found in TOPO TYP files when height and width are not the same .Text if any is now correctly parsed.
In settings add option to condense Transparent True Color POis when saved. Some Garmin TYP files show such compaction.
Export list of elements as a jpg.
Double click on blue selected element type(ie polnts) to add new element.
Various small bug fixes.

TYPWiz 7.698

Allowing 0x0 for lines
Import TYP files from very large gmapsupp.img files - this requires gmt.exe - see manual
Enable image to be flipped horizontally or vertically
Some minor bugs fixed.

TYPWiz 7.691

Various issues fixed when converting lines or polygons to non-bitmap
Added Tool to clearly match Points found in TYP file to Garmin types: (Registered version only)
Go Tools,Check POI TYPES .
Correct matches ensures correct searches on a Garmin device.
Using the wrong type number can affect visibility of point and whether it appears in a search.
The tool also finds 'unused' custom poi types which can be safely used without affecting visibility of poi.
Added tool to print out list of lines & polygons used in the TYP file making it easier to check if element is visible on a garmin device - not all type numbers are visible on a map. (Registered version only)

TYPWiz 7.66

Fixed key issue when files were savedwith header &5B
Fixed colour shades not appearing when clicking on a colour in the editor.

TYPWiz 7.652

File / Export / Save as Webpage

Export Pois, Lines & Polygons as .html to create legends of a TYP file.
see Example Topo France V3 TYP Legend
Use own template.html file (script) & Insert -->table<-- where you wish the table to be displayed.
images are stored in [image folder] / [ subfolder
Above Example d:\dreamweaver\images\opentopo
Polygons are automatically separated from pois etc
Select number of columns

Locating all Garmin maps & TYP files on a PC when referenced via a shortcut.
Improved IMG2TYP
Fixed problem when City Navigator TYP files lose their data 2+ files
Fixed issue of Polygons , when in draworder mode, at times not showing text/types numbers.
Various minor bugs fixed

TYPWiz 7.61

Fixed Draworder View showing incorrect code when clicking on icon
Fixed some linked Basecamp maps not included list of Installed Maps
various small bugs fixed.
Added Make Transparent when right clicking on an element.

TYPWiz 7.54

Dark Theme : Go Settings, Colours/icons/Dark Theme
Bug Fixes

TYPWiz 7.51

Easier to identify transparent colours , particularly in pois
Better support for' useorientation' in lines.
Draworders get pasted when copied.
Various bugs fixed

TYPWiz 7.45

Added support for Outline colours in POIs as found in latest Garmin TOPO TYP files
Add new improved option to Open TYP files from Gmapsupps
Some Bug fixes

TYPWiz 7.31

Fixed bug when copying and pasting polygons failed to paste fontstyles and colours
Fixed issue when task bar is at the top
Slimlined code to aid speed

TYPWiz 7.15

Fixed issue when using tool to create transparent polygons
Removed img2typ from Settings as this no longer applies
Added 'Bell' at top right to show if there is an update -
Go Preferences,Settings,Advanced and tick automatic updates.

TYPWiz 7.10

Fixed an issue when non-bitmap lines were saved as bitmap lines
Adding and Removing colours made simpler
Incorporated img2typ into TYPWiz
Img2TYP now also reads rgn files found in certain gmap folders