yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
You are right, but for that to be functional, picture can't be small. And if pictures are not small, the whole thing will slow down. I don't know how much, but it's already on the edge of usability on 195 mhz wizard (in my opinion).

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
I would ask for small buttons to the right side of the screen for each contact to call the number or send a text/email quickly. Is that possible Larna?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
It is possible. Actually, i know of a guy who allready did that. His name is Guybrush ;)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackbnymbl:
Where are his files, just so that we can test them?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] crino:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=307294

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackbnymbl:
not for WM2003SE. Oh well...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myownregister:
hi larna,

i've been eagerly following your program's development and i find it totally great! i installed it on 2 devices (xda mini in WM20003se & ipaq hx2495 in WM5). i am aware that you developed the software to simply remain in the background since it has a tiny footprint. however, i noticed that after running it and sending it to the background and then running it again, i find 2 iContacts in the running programs list. would there happen to be a workaround this small effect? i also tried using the HTC-X button to close the app in the WM5 but it does not work too. any comment or help would be greatly appreciated coz i simply love your app.

thanks and continue doing such wonderful and incredibly useful work.

regards,

myownregister :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tommyd75:
My device does the same thing, it wont close and I get another one to open if I click on it again. I have a hp6515 with wm2003se on it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
I'm using a magician with WM2003SE.

This application is great, but could it have:

- A minimized version with smaller buttons (not too small, of corse)

- A groups view

- click and dial (instead of just jumping to the details area of the contact)

- use the photo of the contact (if it had one alrready)

- menu (to choose between views and oprions above)

...other than these ideias, congrats on the software!

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I think most of these features already exist in guybrush's SSContact. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] richierich:
...Yeah, but SSContacts doesn't support wm2003se!!!!

...or does it???

Anywho, thats my two-pence worth!! Love the app Larna, really wish you could develop the extras for it!!!

RR
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stephano:
larna, i've sent you a private message. Check it out.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
It does support, but it has the same "problem" as this app, it still doesnt make the actuall call.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aleksander100:
hey why dont u make it in a such a way that once u select a contact it turns blue
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aleksander100:
and alphabet stuff on right side not left it wud be really gr8 of u if u make it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vador:
I am using wm6 in a HTC tytn this app freezes up :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
I volunteered to help the author of SScontact to make icons for its software, since your projects are very similar, I am offering my services to make you icons as well, if you'd like... Above is a preview of my proposition to the SScontact software:

I can make a different style of icons for your software, if they will have some.

If you'd like me to make a proposal, let me know.

Keep up the great work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aleksander100:
and i think that u shud make the contact stuff white and a bit blue and once selected a bit dark blue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
But that IS already like how you just said in this software, do remenber that that screenshot was for a diferent software.

Blue is indeed a smooth color for iContact and if it had a icon to make the call that only appeared when selected (in that dark blue) and actually made the call happen, that would be excelent.

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
I love iContacts, except that it becomes difficult to use with longer contact lists. If the author dislikes jumping by choosing letters, it would already help making the list circular.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Circular! That's genius!! Great thinking Andre!

Hopefully it's not too hard for Larna to do
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Well, using windows listview control makes that pretty impossible. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrram:
What are regs for adding to buttons?

What are regs for adding to buttons?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Oliy:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\113

Default = iContact

Open = \Program Files\iContact\iContact.exe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myRIGHT:
is there any recent release for icontact cosidering what were mentioned above for improvement?&when?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
No, there were no recent releases. And considering that Guybrush implemented most of mentioned features into his own amazing app, there probably won't be similar releases for quite some time. At least not until i succeed in doing something new and more fun than currently available features. As for the functionality, the iContact suits me just fine. For those who want more functionality there is aforementioned SSContact app, and it has a LOT of potential. So support Guybrush instead, report bugs to him. He allready has functional app. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
But...your app is faster and smoother on the scroll, if it just had the "call on click" working, it would be very, very good.

I like his app, but without the smooth scrool it looses a bit of interest...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JcNeji:
Question:

I own a HTC TyTN and i think this app rocks, but it wont work on my phone.

Ive installed it but when i click it my phone freezes, ive tried it on my previous WM5 and now on WM6 and it still doesnt work

Anyone know if it actually can work or ....

any help would be appreciated

thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Well, mine won't have call on click implemented :) Sorry to disappoint you, but as i said, my app is contact chooser. And that is what it does. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I think it was tested and worked fine on TyTN with WM5.0, not sure about WM6.0

Maybe some kind of ROM incompatibility? (Not sure if that could actually be a problem)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] -SKYLINE-:
Tested on Fujitsu-Siemens N560 WM5 VGA device. Works.

Bug #1 found: while using iContact, enter into a contact and delete it, then iContact last slot (the now empty one) shows some weird stuff.

Bug #2 found: maybe it's because of the VGA device.... the scroll bar seem to go past the end of the screen (about half the bar in size past the screen), but all the contacts still show

Otherwise... this some great stuff. perhaps allow some customising would be great!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Hi

Scroll indicator thing is a known bug, but it doesn't harm anything, so it's fine with me.

However, other thing is a more of a issue. I'll look more into that. Thx for testing.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jcespi2005:
Tested in a TyTN with WM6, and works fine for me...

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myRIGHT:
tested on HTC TyTN 2005

IT WORKS VERY GOOD
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BoldFace:
I have tried to uninstall iContact and it did not uninstall fully. What are the registry entries to restore the old contacts button?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myownregister:
hi larna,

i've been using your v2 release for quite some time now and it simply is a wonderful piece of work. however, i have a small confusion with its behavior when sent to the background. like my post mentioned before, whenever i open iContact then closed it, the program will be minimized and sent to the background. but when i call it again for a 2nd time of use then close it again, there will be 2 instances of iContacts in the running programs. is this a normal behavior of the app? if so, if you could please recommend to me a program that closes iContacts coz the HTC-X button you mentioned you use does not support my magician running WM2003se. any help would be appreciated. especially coz i simply love using your app and i just would like to find ways to accommodate its behavior in my device.

thanks again for developing such a wonderful app!

regards,

myownregister
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
hi myownregister,

i don't really know that much about the whole pocketpc architecture so i can easily solve problems with the app. When you start iContact, it checks to see if there is allready running instance, and if it finds one, it closes itself and opens previous instance. I guess there is some problems with that checking code on wm2003 devices. Or on custom ROMs (even i don't understand how that could be).

Either way, i'll look into code, but i can't promise anything. I'm glad that you like the app, and i'm sorry to see that you can't run it. I'll try to solve that problem.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myownregister:
hi larna,

thank you for your quick reply on my post. i'm sad to hear that this tiny problem may possibly be the fault of having the WM2003se OS. for you to take a look into the code again would be very much appreciated since there are a lot of us who use WM2003se that really love your app. for my xda magician though, i did not do a custom ROM since i'm using the stock ROM version 1.11.00 WWE & ExtROM version 1.11.922 WWE that my device came with. no tweaks and anything special done to it at all so i understand your guess on the problem's cause. for the meantime anyway, i'll just have to continue searching for a task manager that can close iContacts (all that i have tested do not even see iContacts running except for the WM2003se's default RunningPrograms) after i use it each time so the instance will not become double.

thanks again for looking into the matter for your app is definitely the best contacts app i have ever used coz of clean simplicity and ease of use.

regards,

myownregister
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Hey larna, can you please make an icon for your app??

PLEASE!!!!!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mbbfiddler:
iContact icon

Hey mod junkies,

A couple ppl have requested an icon for this awesome app. I have quickly knocked one up using WinVister's (sic) gloss button and AplMak's (sic) AddressBook icons for Larna's approval and inclusion with next release.

Notwithstanding, can be used as a shortcut icon as anyone sees fit. I have been using this application in place of the SMS function on Grump's iFone (sic) app and called the link 'Contacts' as it provides many ways to communicate to each of my contacts through the one application - i.e. no need for seperate SMS, email, phone, or address book links.

cheers

mbb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Looks good enough for me. Let's just hope it's in the next version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] no_2468:
To change the softkeys on the Today screen

The left-hand softkey settings are at 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\1 12', the right-hand softkey settings are at 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\1 13'

The 'Default' string value can be changed to whatever text you wish to have displayed

The 'Open' string value can be changed to the program you wish to run when the softkey is pressed

For example, to change the left-hand softkey to start Pocket Excel you would set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 2\(Default) = Pocket Excel

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 2\Open = \windows\pxl.exe

If you want to change the left-hand softkey to start Messaging you would set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 2\(Default) = Messages

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 2\Open = \Windows\tmail.lnk

If you want to change the right-hand softkey to start Contacts you would set

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 3\(Default) = Contacts

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\11 3\Open = \Windows\AppButtons\Contacts.lnk
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Easy way to change SoftKeys...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=279544&highlight=softkey
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] robertn:
This is a great app, use it all the time :)

Would be cool if there was something like this to scroll through emails/text messages :)

When I open outlook now I sometimes forget I have to use the stupid scrollbar
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Hi Larna,

Could you please tell me if you would consider making the list circular?

And if so, when you might be able to implement it in a release?

Thanks so much!

Dax.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I think that circular list would be a very nice feature, but i think that it's impossible to implement it by using standard win32 list control, which iContact is using. Currently. :)

As for implementing it, i won't be able to do it.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lucasan2:
What about media player?

Hey Larna, first of all, my greatest congratulations for your app...you truely are brilliant...I was just wondering have you got any plans to release something similar for the media player? It's just the iphone one looks amazing and i've got something like 200 songs in my mobile and it's such a pain to browse to find the one I want!

Thanks for the time, and once again congratulations on the app :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshuawittstock:
Great app, use it daily.

that music browser app sounds pretty cool, do you think you would be able to make one?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abasu2003:
Just wondering...I see lots of requests for Larna but are you (Larna) actually working on the program to add extra functionality to it? It can definitely stand on its own right now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I don't have time to work on everyone's requests. I'm still in the process of learning new things in C and I am working on speed optimizations and program architecture that will allow me to extend it in the way i want. I use my app on a daily basis and it's very functional to me as it is. However, there are things that i want to add to it, that i will not discuss until they are finished or at least in the testing phase. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] abasu2003:
Ah, that makes sense. Just wanted to know if these 30 pages of requests were in vain. I agree its completely functional to me as well as is.

but, it would be nice to get a sneak at what you are thinking about, even if it doesnt' come to fruition.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Heh.. My thoughts may become other people's expectations... And we don't want that to happen. :)

Lots of wanted features are incorporated into Guybrush's SSContact app. And it is fully functional. So I'm free to do whatever i want with my app. Even if i want to turn it into mp3 player, that would be completely because of my desires ;)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gabbyg:
OBI WAN: You desire to create an iPhone style music and video player...

larna: I desire to create an iPhone style music and video player...

OBI WAN: You can go about your business...

larna: I can go about my business...

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Hehe...

My desires are far from my capabilities...

But i desire, nevertheless ;)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
ehehehe modest this guy...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Larna: Jedi mind tricks don't work on me, only money.

:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
hehe

Well, money is at least more convincing than mind tricks. I have firewall, with tricks filter "on". ;)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zgi:
suggestion

HI!

I've got two suggestions for iContacts.

1. It would be great to make a double tap to select contact in this app.

2. Scroling with D-pad would be great. So first you would be selecting betwen 7 contacts showed on screen and when you would be on the end of that 7th contact showed, the app would automaticaly scrol down for another couple of contacts.

BTW: Great program! I love it!

Gretings from Slovenia.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amino:
I installed the cab with the registry tweak, all I get on my p3300 is a contact name displayed four times, twice at top and twice at bottom and it does nothing !? :( have tried installing the other versions same result, am I doing something wrong ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xvx45:
larna > can you develop the same program (simplist) but for the SMS.

iSMS for example :D

So if you had no time or just don't want to develop that, can you send me source code of iContact at:

xvx45[at]wanadoo[dot]fr

([at] = @ and [dot] = . )

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kennethhansen:
Thank's for a great app. A nice feature would be to have the alphabet scrolling horizontal on the top, or start with the alphabet on the scrolling screen and after you select a letter you can start scrolling from that letter.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Agreed.

Dax.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfxMaven:
Amazing, amazing app. I agree that it can stand alone as it is but I have a few suggestions that I think will keep it simple and zippy yet give it a little extra something:

Double-tap to select a contact (a few times I've accidentally opened a contact up when I didn't mean to).

Current font is perfect but how about including a choice of two fonts styles: the default one AND a bold version of the default font (the bold version for the near-sighted people or car use). You could even release two different versions of the exact same code, just one for each font style.

Pictures (pulled from POulook) to the extreme right of the contact names, just before the little indicator.

Again, wonderful app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sergiopi:
I just discovered and tested on my TyTN WM6. A Killer app! I have more than 600 contacts and you app is the only way to find someone quickly using one hand!

I suggest:

1) Put your name and link to this board somewere in the SW (about), you will be surprised how many fiends you have

2) Contact Paypal and have a DONATE button below yur name, may be you will have also some money to spend with lazy ladies and beer...

3) Add to the cab the option to substitute Icontact to contact in the default home screen menu

4) I agree, double tap will be better to avoid wrong contact opening...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Thx all, you're all way too kind :)

I'm working on a new version, but slowly :) So i thought about giving you a little info about further development.

Version 0.2 used Windows ListView control to display contacts and various hacks were required to make that list scrollable and fast. And had many limitations regarding displaying of contacts.

Next version will not be full featured contacts manager, it will probably be as simple as v0.2. But...

I developed my own list control and now, in testing phase, it seems like 5 times faster drawing than before. Have to measure it to be sure. People with 400MHz devices wont really notice the difference, but as i have the wizard OC'd to 220MHz, it means much to me and other people with slower devices.

Also, many other things are possible now, but i'll try to keep iContact as fast and as minimal as i can.

Regarding the proposed features...

I'm thinking about that double tap for contact selection. It is easy to do, but yet it's so "Windowsesque" and that's attribute i don't like. :) Don't know, have to give it some more thought.

See you later, thx,

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
@sergiopi

1) I'll probably do that when iContact is more or less finished. :)

2) Paypal doesn't support receiving money in Croatia. Too bad, what can i say.

3) Nope. If user knows how to do that manually, he will surely know how to undo that. Otherwise...

4) See previous post.

Thanks for comments. It's really rewarding knowing that people use my software and that they like it. It's great. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
good work my friend, continue like this ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gfxMaven:
Just thought of one more feature AND a solution to your double-tap problem:

How about a "night-mode" for the drivers out there? Simply flip the color scheme- dark background (80% Gray or Jet-black) and light fonts (15% Gray). That wouldn't involve too much coding. This would go well with the user-selected option to make the fonts bolder, and neither option would have any impact on performance.

If the double-tap is too "windowesque" I have a simple solution: keep it as a single tap but limit the tap-zone to the area on the extreme right, probably where the picture would be (hint, hint ;)). Contact anywhere else will simply facilitate scrolling.

Good ideas, no?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Keyboard view is still the most important requested feature for me.

Thanks Larna! I too use your program on a daily basis, it's my default contacts picker.

Great work!

Dax.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fmchaves:
how to remove it?

funny aplication.

just one question. how do i remove it after i instaled it? i have to many contacts and i need something with a search on the toolbar like informant.

i tryed to remove it using the remove programs apllication in windows and got a message that it was not completly removed and the aplication is still active

i have a htc p3600 device.

thanks in advance,

FMC
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
I didn't even install it.. funnie.. it's just an application that you can use by placing it in your PPC. I'm using a Trinity too. :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fatouraee:
i tired it on HTC X7500 and it works great. just a questions did you use c# or PPL to write this app?

Thank You.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
C, not C#, but just C with win32 API.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mike_d_:
Sick!!!

that is a sick contacts app. man, keep up the great work!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PPCApache:
Great App!

Hi there

Just downloaded and installed on my Apache (PPC-6700) works really well makes it easier than the built in Contacts, really would like VGA version also for my Axim X51v. (its lonely...lol)

Cheers

Jace
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Hi Jace,

I thought it works on VGA devices. Can you tell me what happens when you run it on your vga device?

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
working nice on my jamin

thanx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SHAHS:
Complete iPhone-like UI on a JavaME phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=309999

LARNA DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT IT?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Someone did a very good job i guess. :)

larna