TomTom Menu Designer
Beta version 1.12 (Windows XP / Vista)
29 January 2007

Sometimes you have to navigate through several menu pages to get to the desired TomTom function. If you use a certain function frequently, it's much easier to have that function on the first menu page! You can rearrange the TomTom menus easily with this free software.

Information & Disclaimer

THIS TOOL IS PROVIDED AS FREEWARE AND CAN BE DISTRIBUTED FREELY. NO CHARGE MAY BE MADE FOR THIS SOFTWARE OR FOR SERVICES PROVIDED USING THIS SOFTWARE. YOU USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND HOW TO COPY THE MENU FILE TO YOUR TOMTOM DEVICE (instructions are included in the accompanying manual). THE CREATORS OF THIS SOFTWARE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE OR SYSTEM CRASHES CAUSED BY USING THIS SOFTWARE OR COPYING THE RESULTING MENU FILES TO YOUR NAVIGATION DEVICE. THIS IS A BETA TEST VERSION OF THIS SOFTWARE AND NO SUPPORT OF ANY KIND IS OFFERED OTHER THAN THIS DOCUMENTATION.

BUG REPORTS, SUGGESTIONS AND COMMENTS CAN BE SENT TO ttmd@gregoryduncan.com

 Thank you for using this software!

Frequently Answered Questions (FAQs)

1. What TomTom models does this software work on?
This software has only been tested by the author on a TomTom 300. However, menu files can be uploaded to 300/500/700/510/710/910/ONE models and should work perfectly well. E-mails have come from many users using different TomTom models, and all with success. It even works on TomTom Navigator software for PDAs.

2. Where are the rest of the icons such as "Home", "Postcode", "City Centre" etc?
Not all icons / menu pages can be customised. Those icons which cannot be customised are often available on separate menus accessed by clicking another icon. For example, "Home", "Post Code", "City Centre" are all avaiable from clicking "Navigate To". You cannot however just put the "Home" or "Postcode" button on the main page of your menu.

3. Will adding a new menu delete my default TomTom menus?
When you customise a menu, all your TomTom menus are replaced. However, should you need or want to return to the default TomTom menu which came shipped with your TomTom, simply delete the TomTom.mnu file from your TomTom.

4. Where are other menu items for x10 TomToms or firmware v6?
There are a number of icons which (to date) are not available to be customised. These are :

• Speaker Preferences
• Disable wireless data
• Show fewer / more menu options (but you are customising your menu anyway!)
• Ask arrival time
• Set owner
• Start up preferences

This may seem like a downside to customising your own menus, but most of the settings in the icons above you only ever set once (or rarely after). Therefore, should you need to change, for example the owner information (from "Set owner"), simply remove the customised menu from your TomTom which will return you to the default TomTom menus. Then you will have access to the Set Owner button. Change the owner information and after you can copy the customised menu to your TomTom again.

5. How do I display no text under the “next page” button?
Please see page 7 of the manual for instructions

Revision History (beta)

1.12 : Select folder to save menu to as Vista with UAC turned on doesn't allow saving to the system root folder. Changed to .NETv2

1.11 : clicking "Only show unused icons" does not remove the SDK icon (thanks to Biggles_downunder for that suggestion)

1.10 : new menu function to restore default TomTom button name (if you have changed the default text),
fixed swapping of buttons for show/hide POIs and enable/disable POIs (thanks to Steve B for finding that)

1.9 : fixed renaming of preference buttons not being saved (Thanks to Steve Gold for finding that bug!)

1.8 : you can now rename individual menu buttons

1.7 : add additional v6 / x10 series icons (but see above FAQs). Thanks to Patrick Cate for some additional icons

1.6 : save to root folder of application drive (in case there is no drive C)

1.5 : show default preferences menu on TT when pref menu not customised, set default open folder to c:\,
show that not all icons are for all TomTom devices

1.4 : switch button positions easily by dragging menu buttons to a new position
(a) context menu not appearing with right click.

1.3 : fixed problem with last page of preferences menu being blank, fixed problem with menu jumping to page one when
adding buttons to later pages, (a) last main menu page sometimes not shown correctly on TT

1.2 : different format (3x2 or 2x3 for PDAs), eliminates main/preferences menu switch flicker, help button changed to "help tutorial"

1.1 : allows up to 9 SDK applications

1.0 : Added sizeable window, easier drag/drop, better interface

0.9 : Original release

A PDF manual is also included in the setup. You can also read the manual by clicking here.

No Spyware.
Although we do not offer support, we welcome your bug reports, comments and suggestions
for possible future versions.