This is all new to me and I have managed to pick up quite a lot intuitively which is awesome, but I can't seem to figure out how to change the default icon for waypoints? I am planning a journey across France and Europe of around 1200 miles and it looks like I will have thousands of waypoints. Having to change the icon and name every.single.time. is very annoying! Is it possible to change the default settings, because if it is I can't figure it out at all! Thanks ;)
You can definitely change the defaults but I don't think that's possible through BC itself (unlike MapSource). The defaults are stored in the Windows registry in the
key. The trick is knowing what values to set "Symbol" and "Waypoint Name Length" to. "Symbol" is a hexadecimal value that defines the default icon/symbol while "Waypoint Name Length" defines the length of waypoint names that your device can accept.
Hi, that was really quick and really helpful, except I am on windows 8 and the registry editor shows 'garminbasecamp' and there are only about 4 keys in there, none of them are called 'waypoint.' If there is another way to find the full set of 'HKEYs' I would love to know!
(Thankfully :)) I don't have Win8 so I can't help with those details. That said knowing Microsoft you probably have to run the registry editor as an Administrator to see all keys.
The Waypoint key includes "Symbol" (which defaults to 0x8d here) and "Waypoint Name Length" which defaults to 0x20.
EDIT: Damn! The forum editor is screwing with the Registry path. I type the word "Settings" and it is substituting "Setting.s" as it did in STUARTMW's. So in the path above and in STUARTMW's post, use "Settings", not "Setting.s"
