yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
So if I'm following you, if CM handle page up/down key it should work for you... and doesn' change a thing for the other?

Where can I see smartskey?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luxmen:
Very nice appz

You have do a great job with this apps...

Suggestion for next releases :

- For be perfect and complet, it will be VERY COOL you include a full screen caller picture (Same Photo contact pro)

- Really full screen (on my trinity), i've the bottom task bar. Real fullscreen wile be VERY CRASY !

Nothing hell..

Thx for your great work ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
@ tene

Where can I change the font color for contact detail in the .ini?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
Yes. E.g. like TotalCommander. The D-pad up/down takes you one file up or down, while the volume slider takes you a page up or down. In my experience, every app that features a standard scrollbar shows this behavior with smartskey

This is the smartskey thread.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ccc030:
Skinning Probs

iM working on a lill skin.. but there's a lill problem too. in the screenshots i tagged my problem with the red arrows. it would be nice if someone could tell me how to remove the f***ing lines ;) and change that lovely avatar.. is that possible? if not, i swear i go crazy.

thank you very much.

.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] callmemoe:
The blue line around the menu can be changed in your ini file to any color you choose. If you want this to be black, find "menu_border_color=" in the ini that specifies that color and change the value to 0,0,0 (Make sure to remove the leading # if there is one).

To replace the "avatar" for contacts that have no picture assigned, create a new png image and add default_contact_image=xxx.png to your ini file where xxx.png is the name of the image that you want to use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoachForLife:
Maybe this has to do with the indexing Ive been reading about but say I load contacts and use the left/right of screen to select 'G'. It will display my Ds, Es, Fs. Essentially it shows just before the first G.

Is this normal? I would think selecting G would bring me to the first contact with a G

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maevro:
This is great, I just installed it. I has still using the original and this blows it away. You don't have to change anything, I am plenty happy with the way it works.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LGSilva:
The pink lines is probably because the pink is not rgb(255,0,255) and the pixels around the picture can be fixed in a easy way, recreate the image with a solid background that matches the main background.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Hey Tene,

Could you add an option where it "loads silently" or loads minimised.

Example, putting "ContactsManager.exe -quiet" as a shortcut in your Startup folder would load it on startup, but not make the window show up.

Obviously, it would be great if your app could use less resources, but this would still be a handy feature. (I think :) )

Thanks mate!

Dax.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] atulhyd:
About search...

Was thinking about the search part.... You could probably do away with the "Hide" option and put a menu there instead. This could also be used for settings etc in the future if you wanted to implement them there... As for Hide, I'm assuming that most people will be aware of something like Smartskey...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Tha's just one part of the problem... what would do a search button?

If it's only showing a text box allowing you to filter contact, we go back to the problem to type text on a touch screen.

What I'm thinkin about is more a series of screen, that would allow you to build filter, for instance first screen show all, company, category, mail domain, next screen show a list of possible choice, then you get the contact. Something like that...

By the way using the hide button would be great for people that don't use fullscreen... for them... it's gonna be a little bit more complex.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alanderego:
Sorry... I meant the colors of the contact detail. In particular the grey background

Thanks...

Alan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] atulhyd:
Personally, I quite like the way "Smart Dialling" works. Now if that could be improved upon... What I mean is, Smart Dialling only searches based on display name. If it was possible to select search field (say company or category) as first step, firstname lastname as second step and so on, that would take care of quite a number of situations. A dialpad type keypad for data input would be usable without a stylus.

I hope that helps to some extent. Great app by the way. I totally love to use it and show it off also ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
anyone know a way to access the old contact manager or create a link for it? would like to acccess it to change the default area code in the menu options..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
tene...

i can't seem to find a way to remove the () from the contact detail button text..

currently my numbers are stored as (204) 555-1234

kind of looks ugly when displayed as:

Mobile ((204) 555-1234)

can we have an option in the next version to remove the () around the button txt?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
read the forum, someone already posted a solution for that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] saints5354:
Quote:

Originally Posted by NxJay

App won't load for me. I keep getting this same error message.

I've upgraded to .net compact framework 2.0 (AFAIK the latest version, installed to ramdisk. main memory is full), am using contactmanager v0.9 (installed to program files\contactmanager) and am on WM5.

--------------------------------------------

An unexpected error has occurred in ContactManager.exe.

Select Quit and then restart this program, or select Details for more information.

File or assembly name 'Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35', or one of its dependencies, was not found.

Looking for so long, after 359 post, i found the solution on post#360 , thanks hecatomb
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] labcoat:
Exit Option

Would it be possible to add an option to EXIT the application rather than simply HIDING it (or a menu with both options)? I realize that it would have to reload contacts every time I shut the application down, but I'm okay with that. With my TMobile Wing, I sometimes have to stop the application by selecting a contact, editing the contact, accessing the Start menu, Settings, System, Memory, etc. just to use the camera because of the memory requirements. It's more a problem with the Windows Mobile hardware than the memory cost of ContactManager, but it would just be nice to have a quick and easy EXIT option. I could get rid of contact photos to minimize memory, but that is a major reason why I use your software. Thanks for your consideration and great job.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ccc030:
:..:::......::::.::::. .:::

Special †hX 2 bo†h of you...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] saints5354:
Hi tene,

I read thru all post, but still can't find it.

Is that possible to add " # " to search index as original contact from #ABCDEF..... to Z , cos my fellow colleugue name i represent them with service number in contact.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tehcrash:
Did anyone else experienced an issue when launching Contact Manager in Landscape mode? When i tried to do this i got white background, with no sign of loadaed settings.ini, and when i tried to go to contact details ("go right"), i could see only white screen. On Portrait mode all seems ok. My device is Artemis, my OS is original WM6 rom.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pprakash:
Is it possible for the app to hide itself once a contact is being selected for Call or SMS? Presently I see it in taskbar and need to select it and hide it manually everytime I call someone or send a SMS.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
Wow, its looking good! I'll try installing it in a minute. I also much prefer when something is activated on the lift of a finger, rather than the first touch. This is how the iPhone works, and how a clone keyboard for Pocket PCs based on the iPhone should be developed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Did you try to use "the right way"? Press your finger, stay pressed, find the right letter, release your finger?

By the way next version is coming, speed improvment and some other stuffs.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
Damn :( I can't install the net framework because I don't have enough space on my main memory. For some reason it just wont install on my storage card. This looks like the best iPhone style contacts app out there as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
You'll have to make some space or wait for the native version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
I tink I'll have to wait. Thanks for the update anyway, and I'm looking forward to the native version!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keithtran12:
Hi, I'm using the Treo 700wx. When I select a contact from my list, my contact picture image is covered by the "Mobile" line,"SMS Mobile" line, and "Mailto:" line. It only shows the top 25% of the picture image istead of a full image followed by the "Mobile", "SMS Mobile" and "Mailto:" lines underneath it. Is this a problem only pertaining to the 700wx?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoachForLife:
isnt the treo the square display? I think that could be your cropping issues
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fleshball:
One big problem

This app is great.. and is a great replacement for contacts...

but there is one huge problem...

the "new contact" is all the way at the bottom, which takes a minute to scroll down to..

Is there any way you can move the "new contact" to the very top of all of the contacts?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g35driver:
looks very cool, cant wait to use it!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lwclam:
Chinese localization file

:D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ghxoxst:
PLEASE HELP

NINJA EDIT:

i installed the Net Framework and the contact manager is installed now, but how the hell do i make a call? Before you would hit enter on the HIGHLIGHTED name but now there is no highlight to designate who is picked and no text message or call function? when i select a name it slides to the right but its just a blank white screen with no optin to text or call???? and when i hit BACK it takes me to the list directory but still, no way of calling or texting? am i missing something? Also when i have in a a mode other then landscape it is chopped off about a third of the screen.

awesome app but my noobness would like the OEM contact manager back. Where and how do i get this, and is there a way to uninstall net framworok 2.0?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] joshdance:
Wonderful app

This is a wonderful program. I used it for 5 minutes, loved it, and made a donation. I hope all of you who have used this and find that it makes your PDA more useful will consider a small donation to the author as I did. I find it to be true that the more money you give away, the more you will make back, but if you're stingy you will never get much! :-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
Both contact manager and .net can be uninstalled from the remove programs icon in settings. To make a call..click on the name..then click on which phone # you cant to call (mobile, home etc) and the call will initiate.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boinger66:
im having a problem where the picture gets cut off in landscape mode

and its a bit slower in landscape mode...

in portrait mode its absolutely fine

i have an htc athena...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marktang:
hey sorry i dont know if this was talked bout before but im using black majik with this...and after i install the contact manage my msn doesnt work probably. it shows all my contacts as offline but when i uninstall it then msn works fine. does anyone knows y?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] StevenK:
I've now upgraded to PDAVIET 4.0.0.6.Touch and now ContactManager does work well!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] airjer:
Landscape mode causes all types of problems... the theme pretty much disappears and you can only read some text. The app also only takes up a little more than half of the screen and runs a lot slower. Portrait mode is perfect, besides obvious speed problems and needs to be more responsive.

Thanks for the app, awaiting future development :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Could you elaborate?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] msm903:
Landscape and Hide

[PHP]

[/PHP]Great work on the software so far. keep it up.

I have a AT&T 8525 with WM5. I have a problem with the ''Hide'', when I use it more times or less I am unable to access the Contact Manager again. It shows the Contact on the Taskbar next to tyhe Start, with an ok on the right of the time, the onscreen kybrd appears however it shows nothing else. In some cases I'm forced to kill the program and start it again. Not sure if it's a issue with the software or with my Device.

If i open the Contacts in landscape mode I see the names and can scroll, however the theme no longer exists (White BackGround) and when I chose a contact I see no buttons or any text... just a white screen. On the main All contacts page it displayes only 3 contacts at a time which is good (3 Rows). When I switch back over to Portrait it maintains just the 3 rows and the theme is still gone and below the 3 Rows I basically have 3 columns which seems to be the remains of the landscape view.

If i start in Portrait and swap to Landscape basically the reverse happens. It keeps the Theme.... the Alphabet index only goes down to S. and the lines for the Columns only extend 240 pixels instead of 320. I can view contacts properly however, although the Contact Informatin is not centered.

Basically if you start in portrait and switch to landscape the system uses the portrait immages... and visa versa if you start in Landscape and sitch to portriat.

I hope i wasn't too long winded and confusing

1 ContactManger Opened in Landscape Mode:

2 Then Switched to Portrait

3 Opened in Portrait then Switched to Landscape

4 After I go to a Contact and return to All Contacts

After that the Landscape works okay if opened in Portrait first.. excpet the image is off course offcentered
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wind Dancer:
I changes the order of contact info so postal code is last, however this did not change the way it displays on the phone.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Can you show me the exact line you put in your config file? Are you sure your contact are filled correctly (postal code in the post code field, not in the city for instance).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks for your feedback, it won't be fixed in ContactManager.

However it is already fixed in PocketCM. The native version of ContactManager, currently in private beta.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chiekh:
suggestion

Fist thanks for the great work

Second i suggest if you can change in the App To return to the contact list after a call is made.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Wind Dancer:
Here is what i changed the line to as per your instructions earlier in the thread:

#contact_detail_formatting=%homeaddressstreet\n%homeaddresscity %homeaddressstate\n%homeaddresscountry\n%homeaddresspostalcode
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
Does this require .Net Framework 2? I didn't install it and it's still working. Strange..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Probably because you have it already installed (WM6?). It's the same for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jolas:
tene, is your new version going to have more vga improvements?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bowlopho:
Yes I meant an endless list, but it specifically stops it self before it passes the last contact? Does that make sense? Like you can slide all the way down to the last contact and it will stop (like it does now) and slide your finger one more time and it keeps going through (ABC)

I really don't care about displaying the feedback from the letters.

I was mainly asking for a little more pixels on the right side of the screen to detect the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

Just my suggestions! I don't care if you do it or not, but it would be nice for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's the whole point of the index, you don't have to know where to tap, just to slide your finger when you got it right.

There is 26 pixels for the finger on each side in the latest version (0.4). Tell me if it's fine, otherwise, I'll probably add a setting.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Tene,

I just installed 0.4, and I noticed that the index is cut off on the left hanf side. There seems to be a border of about 4 or 5 pixels on the left hand side that hides the first half of all the index text.

Great to see the use of the .ini file now, and the inclusion of all the telephone numbers!

Keep up teh great work, and if you haven't seen my bug reports aroung message #60, have a look.

Thanks again

[edit] Ah, thats the index gradient at play thats doing that. The default color is black, and with black text it makes it appear that the index text is being cut off. Problem solved.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'll dig into your bug report, but actually I think I'll create my own contact edit dialog (to allow slide effect, and... simple form, the one from outlook is too complex for me).

For the black border, I'll post a new version, but there is a quick workaround, create a ini file with:

background=255,255,255

It should solve the issue.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] innovaciones:
0.4 version works pretty amazing!

I just installed the new 0.4 version and works pretty amazing!!!

i'm using a HTC Wizard (8125) It is so fast and so smooth, and all have animation =)

The index option works very smooth, its great!

The Favorites option will be very usefull when is out in the next version.

Thank you for making a great contact manager.

Sorry for my bad english :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
I just realized this and edited my message as you posted yours. :)

Great job so far with the .ini file, especially being able to increase the size (height) of thecontacts!

-When you click on a contact to access it, Is it possible to have the contact BG change color to register that you've selected it? Much like a button press? It's purely a cosmentic request, mind you.

-Another minor cosmetic thing, when showing all the numbers in a contact, they don't line up with each other. For example:

Mobile - (xxx) xxx-xxxx

SMS Mobile - (xxx) xxx-xxxx

Home - (xxx) xxx-xxxx

Work - (xxx) xxx-xxxx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
Excellent program tene..especially scroling is quite smooth with 0.4

Btw a cpl of suggestions\wishes:

1. can u assign a DPAD action (like the dpad right button) to move to the next letter index, instead of just scrolling a page. and similarly for dpad left, we can have backword scroll to previous letter index.

2. the alpha index still feels a bit clumsy, i have to use the tip of the nail to reach the letters on my device, may be u can give a settings option in settings.ini so that users can select these things acc to their preference:

a.) distance from the screen edge in pixels

b.) left or right justfication (i.e., whether index appears near left edge or right edge)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bowlopho:
hehe of course. I just mean't where it was positioned.

when going from landscape to portrait view (with the program open - keyboard slide out)

the screen doesnt correctly redraw itself.

I would make the back and edit button as the left and right softkey pages on the contact informaiton screen. Or at least place those buttons on the bottom. It's a far reach on the thumb when you accidently open someone's contact.

since selecting a contact will bring up the contact's number and information. Can you make an option to disable showing their phone number in the main window?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
A problem:Sending a WM_Close message to the app (e.g using a task manager to true close the app) causes an error\crash message.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bowlopho:
I use softkey, It closes just fine. So does X-button
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shantzg001:
hmmm, for me smartskey and ilauncher's builtin taskmanager both gave this issue
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paalkr:
Hi!

Thanks for a great application! I think this is the best scrolling contacts app so far. I have one enhancement request for next release. The back button on the contact details view is quit small and hard to hit, I think it would be easier to hit left on the D-pad to exit the contact details. Left because that fits best with the animation.

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
hello, thx for the great app.

the white or black background is not so good. Can you insert background picture option? The picture should be however static then and not scrollen with.

and i will change the Button, but the old button is not replaced by the new.

i put the file button.png into the same directory.

Sorry for my English (I am German)

Translated with altavista
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ckolibab:
Stellar app - landscape confusion...

Wonderful app - just great and the new adds are that much better.

I apologize if this is somewhere posted, but on an 8525 it does struggle a bit with the Landscape Draw and saw a single post on this.

If you could add the app to fill the Landscape mode that would be just fantastic. Main reason is to do any edit as you know on the HERMES/8525 you have to go landscape unless u use the softkeys - ukk

SO much thanks for a killer app -- the recent adds really do it for me... GREAT WORK!

Thanks

Chris
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] justincredible:
what version of .net framework do you need for this...im holding out on it until i get my 6800...looks very promising so far from the screenshots and comments made in this thread...

you guys make me feel like such a lazy programmer lol
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vivi:
Tried 0.4b and it is great.

But back and Edit buttons on top is hard to tap,especially while using one hand.Is there any way map "Back" to Left SoftKey ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
There is already a "large_button_height=" in the Settings.ini which works great, hopefully a "small_button_height=" can be added to it as well.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
It's probably not clear enough but # are for comment, so any line starting with # are *not* setting, they're just comment, you can type whatever you want.

If you remove the # in front of the line, then it becomes a setting.

The logic behind that: getting setting value takes time, less setting -> faster app... and also it forces me to provide correct default, so that ContactManager without settings or with corrupted settings file still work correctly.