yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
^Yup, did the same thing as you, to add a contact dial it on the phone, you don't actually need to make a call. Then under Menu choose the Save to Contacts option, it goes back to the standard program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] trojan9x:
I hope you get back to continue development of this fine app. I do have a (hopefully easy) feature request. Is it possibe to reverse the direction of the scrolling?

Thanks for the great work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] roman2113:
Hands down the best contact app i've found. Obiously it still needs work but the smoothness is incredible. It is extremely sensitive which is good. I hope that you continue development on this fine product.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] orion1602:
wow! so cool! Thx :)

(no need to by an xphone)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bluesky3012:
hi larna... are you planning to continue this project? wish you would.. it's a very simple and useful apps.. my review of .. tried icontact 0.3 but it doesn't take all my contacts, moved onto 0.4 ad it takes all my contacts alright but after clicking on one of the contacts name, got to the phone number page ( don't really like.. rather have it go straight to outlook), go to outlook and close it and then.. it takes a good 2 seconds for the app to restart. but all in all, the scrolling is very smooth..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] slimshadee:
I LOVE 0.4! Can't wait to see what you have planned for the intermediate page that opens when selecting a contact. The animation for the opening and closing of this screen is simply amazing!

I can see you implementing direct access to SMS/Home Phone/GSM phone/E-Mail from this screen, bypassing the outlook screen altogether. (I can dream, can't I?) At the very least, you can show more contact info.

Don't abandon this application. It has some really great possibilities!

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
New release on the first page.

I'm in dilemma, how to implement SMS and CALL buttons for a phone number so they are both large enough and easily selectable.

You guys (gals) have any ideas?

Thx for nice comments.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stan2:
thanks for the update, love this app
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jackuuuuu:
Hey larna,

Thanks for the updates! Nice update.

One problem: I can no longer see "A" as it starts from "B".

I do have A Contacts.

Edit: Got A back after soft reset. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
Wow! Works great and it closes! :) Good job, scrolling is smoother than ever..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
excelent!

beatifull...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kasush:
Larna,

Thank you so much for continuing development on this wonderful tool. I can honestly say I have tried all the other scrolling contact apps and always came back to yours. I love how simple yet functional it is. I don't need all the addons in my contact application that most of the others offer. I like yours because it is small, fast, beautiful. Again thank you so much, I look forward to see what the future holds for icontact. :D

Oh I created a cab that installs this and makes it your default contact application. I would be happy to post here if you approve.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I don't have anything against it. However, It'd be nice if you describe a process of uninstall and restoring a default contacts shortcut. It would help novice users as much as cab would :)

Thx for all your comments.

What about sms button?

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] guimau31:
Seems to not work on my MIO P350 WM5 0.4 worked
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] richierich:
Larna,

Bravo!!! You've done it yet again!!!

Another fantastic update, all contacts show up, and the abc grd staying there once tapped is absolute quality!!! (Even though it was quite a novel idea to have to slide your finger to the letter needed, this way is so much simpler!!!)

I've got this running on my XDAIIi (wm2003se) and like the previous versions, is running like a dream, and yes a couple of bugs still exist, but you know what.....WHO CARES!!!!

This is still by far, the best contacts app around, its small, fast and more importantly does exactly what it says on the tin!!!!

Keep up the good work buddy, it is much appreciated here!!!

Richie Rich
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tweakmy:
how do u install it?

sorry to ask such question...how can do u install it? will it replace the contact button on the today screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chiekh:
fantastic update thanks.

I suggest to allow the red button to minimise the app.

thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marcdu81:
Hi,is it possible to translate with reshack or similar words like work,home,etc in other language ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Nameless[PL]:
Not working on WM 2003 :( v0.4 worked perfectly :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I must have broken something with phone stuff. Unfortunately i don't own an 2003 device, so it's little harder to debug. I'll try to release working wm2003 version soon.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iUser13:
thanks for the update larna, works perfectly on my HTC P3300!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cediesaid:
is there any possible way to get this app to run from the contacts on the today screen? or do i have to always go to programs and run it or add it to my htc home launcher? not sure if this question has been asked...but again not much i can say and not much no one can really do seeing as so many threads and questions go up no matter what. but if anyone can help with my questions thxs!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] windjohnson:
I love you! Thank you SO MUCH for updating this fantastic contact app! This is my favorite!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rwomack897:
can you dial the numbers with this version?? because I couldnt dial the number with one of the earlier versions..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aneto:
Hi Larna,

Thanks for your graet app. It works fine until v0.4. :)

v0.5 doesn't work in my axim x51v (WM6 A03ROM). :(

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aneto ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kasush:
Installing this cab file will place the icontact.exe in the Windows folder and create a link in the start menu, it will also set icontact as the default contact application. Changing the default application is a registry change.

To manually set this to the default contacts application use a registry editor and change the following key:

HKLM\software\microsoft\shell\:MSCONTACTS\1

so that it has the following value:

\Windows\iContact.exe (make sure that \Windows is where you installed the program or else change the path to your location)

If you use the cab I provided then just uninstall to set back to the MS default contact viewer. To do it manually change the key listed above to read:

:MSPOUTLOOK contacts (as with all registry key values capitalization maters, as does spaces or no spaces)

@larna: Are you wanting to add an icon for call and an icon for SMS? I have not written any PPC apps so I am unfamiliar with the hows and what not, but I would think the best approach is to read the GSM/Mobile number and if exists add a picture of an envelope with the letters SMS in it and not show if no GSM/mobile number stored for that contact, you could do the same for each number stored for call, using a phone handset icon. All in all, everything looks good and works great as it is, if you add that it would make it teven better. As I already said, this is my favorite contacts application out of all the scrolling ones I found and tested.

Thanks again larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] robsno:
A superb application, V0.5 working perfectly on my wm2003 se XDA Alpine. Love the abc option to go to a letter quickly and the expanded display is much more useful. It would be lovely if you did a version of the calendar app that would scroll too ;-)

many Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deedee:
Awesome wee application, works grand on my Alpine (WM2003), and it dials form the contact screen as well, would be nice if the phone pad popped up for the input of extra numbers if needed to navigate through automated menu systems.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tweakmy:
thanks for the cab man..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tweakmy:
hi larna,

can u make the contact link with the hardware call button? sometimes it s not convenient for me to tab on the touchsreen call...likewise in the car...

the ui is so far..damn good....

i think pocketcm also behave the same as well.........the contact showned are not linked to hw button..u hv to tab to cal...

if u pressed the hw-button call..it would only bring u to the last call person..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Yes, I'm aware of that, i'll add support for hardware keys in contact details window. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tweakmy:
tq tq tq....(head bow! head bow!)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NexVision:
I think u should also add the ability to add a contact I was about to build it into my roms when I realized the only way to add a contact was via the recent calls menu.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] k wizzle:
this is by far the best contacts program.. at least to me it is
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rasel800:
At last an upgrade...

I have waiting so long for a upgrade and finally..:)

I have tested on O2 Atom with WM6.1 & no problem so far.

Things i must appriciate are:

1. Excellent load time

2. Excellent font and UI

3. Excellent scrolling effect

I really love the app.

Wish List:

1. Full Screen/Toggle

2. If Contact Name or E-mail is so long it gets out of screen. May be Name/Phone/E-mail can scroll horizontally if too long.

Thanks for the effort...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] master athlon:
best contact app

thank you so much for this great app, this is by far the easiest and fastest contact app i've ever used.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
correction

a "P" is mssing from the registry line,

The following should read as follows

If you use the cab I provided then just uninstall to set back to the MS default contact viewer. To do it manually change the key listed above to read:

:MSPOUTLOOK contacts (as with all registry key values capitalization maters, as does spaces or no spaces)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kasush:
Thanks for the keen eye. I would say it was a test, but we all know that it was not :D

Original post edited.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
True, true...

It's on my todo list. :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
v.0.5 works perfectly on my wm2003 magician...

Some ideas:

On the right side of the phone number, or centered right after the phone number, if it has severall it should have lines separating them. The icons could be smaller...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
I'm biased toward more subtle sms button. Like, if a number is mobile, then add simple "SMS" text at the right side of the number. :)

As you may already noticed, i'm not very fond of big icons :)

Thx for suggestion.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
That's a good idea, the number is the button to make a call (already is now) and a simple SMS text on the side to send a message...

I'm always into big rounded buttons, sorry... ^_^
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NexVision:
Sweeeet cant wait as it is exactly what is missing from my roms a fast finger contact app. I was using primecontact but now thats gone commercial.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kasush:
@larna

Any design demos on the SMS "button"

1 request: I have seen people asking for full screen. If you do decide to go that route please make it user configurable. Personally I dislike apps that take over my entire screen.

just my 2 cents.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] guimau31:
Does 0.5 work on non phone pda ? 0.4 worked.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dbakez:
Great app!

Man... there is tons of potential for this app. Keep developing it. Good luck
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Houser:
I think this app is very cool. Works well on my wizard device

and scrolling is very smooth. :) I am impressed!

Keep on developing and add some more features like sorting, and

may be different collors for the lines for some categories.

Houser
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] markquinton:
Works brilliantly on my Artemis, only fault I've found is any contact which has an ampersand in the name (&) it replaces it with a "_" character one character on.

i.e. Mum & Dad is displayed as Mum _Dad
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] df1:
lol so am i

anyway, is it possible?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hansoloafc:
Source code

Hi Larna, very cool app! What programming language do u use? Would you mind sharing the source code?

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

I'm working on the 2003 version of app, but i'm having some problems. Is POOM supported on wm2003 ?

I'm testing the app in the emulator, and I got the message that app is not pocketpc application.

Can anyone give me some tips on porting the app to WM2003? What are the key differences from WM5 ?

Thanx very much,

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
I found this :

The Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 SDK ships with a code sample, named "POOMMaster," that uses the POOM API. The default location for the installed code sample is C:\Program Files\Windows CE Tools\wce420\POCKET PC 2003\Samples\Win32\Poommaster.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] crino:
hi larna,

wm2003 supports POOM, be sure to compile your application for WM2003.

Are you using VS2005? How do you add the platform to the project?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hansoloafc:
VS 2005

Hi Larna.

Have you used any wm5 APIs? If so, the program will never run on a wm2003 unless you completly rewrite your program without the wm5 APIs.

I would really like to help you to develop this app, just contact me if youre interested!:)

HansoloAFC

Norway
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
I want to thanks larna for his useful tips that help me to understand how xphone scroller works and realize it :) I think scroller should work also WM2003 =) larna is doing a good job really ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lwkoon:
Yes.. finally a developement for WM2003SE platform. :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
i'm not doing the same project of larna, i would only understand xPhone scroller technic, someone with a slow processor can tell me if my app work correctly ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Yea it's working pretty good on my phone. Not as fluid as Larna's though. What I mean is when you can't do a fast drag. The list doesn't keep on scrolling down/up. So you have to keep on dragging the screen.

Also, the list movement is very sesitive. One slight tap and the list moves up or down.

Overall, it's good though. You're on the right track.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lwkoon:
the test.exe can't work on wm2003se.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
it's for WM5, thanks for opinion freeyayo50, i'll make it more quickly so.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lwkoon:
I'm very desperate to have the program running on my XDA iis WM2003SE.... :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
larna i'm sure will do it soon :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cifer:
It works correctly on my prophet but it doesnt continuing the movement like on larnas one... but great job! am i right that you're working on a mp3 scroller ;)?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lwkoon:
Hopefully all application developed can consider a wm2003se version. :D :eek:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
no sorry :) I'm haven't any project in mind just want to learn, I saw the nice application of larna and would try to do it by myself, it's my first app with a window on WM :) larna give me also many usefull tips :) and that's the result.. I try now to add some speed :)

now it have more speed.. any reports ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
0.5 links to phone.lib library, which may not be present on non phone devices. If that's the case, i don't know solution for that problem. Sorry.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Splal:
Great work. I've been waiting for a new version. Still a great app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HaiLe512:
GREAT!!!!!!!!

Very nice! Great improvement. This beats everything that I have seen. Thanks and please keep up your very nice thinking and design. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] black_shadow69:
Thanks

I will try
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] guimau31:
Tant pis. I'll be waiting for a new verison for non-phone
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bowlopho:
I think icontact has the smoothess scrolling and quickest loading.

the only thing that really needs to be fixed in the .5 version is the positioning

the name if longer than 19 chars gets cut off the side. I noticied that between the back button and the name there's enough room for 3 more characters.

Also email accounts more than 19 chars get cut off too. and there's a lot of extra room on the left of the titles to add some more space.

as for implementing the sms link, maybe you can have it after the number a enevelope button? or a small box that just has the words sms inside of it. If they tap the number it dials, and if they tap the sms box it takes them to a text message
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agentmikeyd:
i have searched this thread and think I know the answer but just want to confirm...

When I open a contact that has an email address, then I click on that email address it goes back to the main scroll. In order to send an email, i have to click the name in the contact (not the email address) this then opens the stock contact manager, in which i choose the email address. (same logic applies to sms)

Am I missing something?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chiekh:
I ask about managing a favorit or a fastcall list. thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
You are right, currently you can't send email or sms from iContact. Just dial the numbers.

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aneto:
Hi Larna, I find one solution for PPC not phone devices. It works in my axim x51v. Copy fake phone.dll and sms.dll (included in the attached zip file), in /Windows directory, and then iContact v0.5 works in non phone device. ;)

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aneto
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] guimau31:
Thanks, I'll test

PS : It works !!! Definetely Icontact is the smoothest app
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] oopee:
Great app!

Only feature I'm hoping to see is an ability to sort (filter) contacts by category or company.

Is this possible in future versions?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mpovolo:
Is there a way to add creation of appointments from call history?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cediesaid:
has anyone mentioned about adding pics to contacts while viewing or scrolling through them? or is there an app (free) already out there w/ this feature etc?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaY87:
Larna you did a great job!

Runs perfectly on my hermes :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PPCBANDIT:
This is a great application - it is simple, in a good way

And it runs perfectly on my TytnII
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bowlopho:
add a new conatact link at the top =] and you're golden!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaSSoA:
Yup, using it for the past few days and it's working like a charm, just a request though, please keep the application simple, if we needed the fancy sms or phone functions, pocketcm will do that fine, but if you're looking for a simple scrolling contacts app which just dials or maybe in the future sms, then this is brilliant!

Keep up the good work! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kmit:
Memory leak noticed

Greate app, suits best for me, I like it for its simplicity and speed (hope you wont overweight next releases with *features*)

Have any one noticed a memory leak? When its working in the background, every time I change screen orientation (slide the keyboard in or out in wizard) it eats up around 300K of RAM.

Its hapening in every version I have tried (0.3, 0.4, and now 0.5)

With or without that bug its still greate app.

BR

kmit
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mewhoexactly:
treo 700wx

first of all, great program...good job!!!

it runs on my treo (qvga square 240x240) but only on half the screen...weird...is there any fix?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackbnymbl:
If it's still 03SE compatible (and I really hope so), then mines having an odd issue (and if it's not, then that's the issue). When I try to open it (0.5), it just says "cannot find 'icontact' or one of it's components..." Do you know what causes this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PaNa-S:
Hi larna first gratz for this iContact ! is the best contact app i seen for my HTC.

Im a spanish user and i want to translate the words "Mobile", "Work" etc... Can you do a spanish version? :P I can help you to translate this words :P or can you publish the source code? Gratz for the work :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agentmikeyd:
are there any plans to add just a

basic

sms and email directly from Simple Contacts (and I mean nothing fancy - not like PCM) ?

That would make this already great app just perfect!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] robsno:
Well done

This is a good application, I wish there was a way to change the colour or skin it as I dont need to pretend it is an Iphone but like the way it works. The ABC pad is a big improvement. Interesting if a diary app could work that way Keep up the good work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] HaiLe512:
Well done...

Larna,

Thanks for the update. This version rocks. I am using it now instead of PocketCM. Much faster and cooler and it is a very fast replacement for OS contacts. Thanks.

Can we have graphics for cellphone, home, and office instead of text? I do not think sms integration is needed because because thread sms comes with wm 6.1 and I am already using it.

Thanks again and please keep up this wonderful program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vsitterding:
HELP

Does anyone know how I can make it so that when I press the contacts soft key it pulls up icontacts.....right now I have to enter it through file explorer and it seems to defeat the purpose :( When I hit the contact soft key it opens my regular contacts....Also which version is it that opens the regular contacts page (like the email, sms, etc) I just want the scrolling for the contacts although I want it to open with the soft key....All help will be greatly appreciated!!!