eugeneloke

i know there was some discussion on this forum about what is running in our idrive - there was even talk about how the idrive in the 7-er & in our e60's being dif. One has a JAVA frontend & the other apparently is pure embedded windows. I think there was talk that the 7-er version is the JAVA one.

even if ours is running embedded windows - the apps would probably be compiled down to binary - so nearly impossible to change the screen widgets or screen designs. Unless it's like embedded VB or VC on pocketpc where the code is interpreted at runtime & not compiled (Which may explain performance issues) then perhaps you can change the contents of the forms - but it would risky if you accidentally corrupt the code

also - i am inclined to think that software modules of this nature tends to be calling very low level subroutines - so really unlikely to be able to just change things easily

anyhow, overall i think the interface is very pleasing - and i agree with 555 - the idrive looks cool enuff as it is.

larsa

Some people like the looks of iDrive as it is, others don?t. If you dislike your standards rims, you can buy new ones. A new iDrive look can?t be bought that easily. And that?s to bad...