yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pjam:
I originally had that error when i tried this latest version.

Unfortunately, i can't remember what i did to fix it. Perhaps it was performing a soft reset and running this app before anything else. ?????

It works great now though so it is worth trying again.

pjam
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paranormalenigma:
Great program (in fact, best I've used so far of it's kind!).

Only one problem: it takes several seconds to start (6 in my case o.o), and sometimes it randomly exits and gives me an error (although it's not too often.) Any ideas on how to speed up the start time? I don't want to keep it running cause it uses up RAM.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lewisleung:
I have got a problem in v.09

Contacts > Edit Contacts > Delete

Contact manager will be crash after a contact in pocket outlook was deleted.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
@paranormalenigma: Please let us know what phone/PDA you're using.

It's a good idea to put it in your signature.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pdawhore:
How do i add my contacts from the normal contacts manager

Hi there first off..good work!!.is there a option to add all contacts from normal contact manager?..or must i create alllll of them again one by one...????
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
??? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. My application will show all your current pocket outlook contact. You don't have to create them.

However there is an option on by default that will only show you the contact that have one or more phone number, I put it mainly to avoid being polluted by live messenger contact.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tizzi:
The app is great but can you add some features like:

- the possibilty to put ContactManager to one of the 2 buttons down of the screen. (I tried to do it, but it doesnt work??.... I use Asus P525).

- the possibilty to add new contact in "all contacts" page instead to go in any contact then add a new one.

- possibility to scroll 360degre, instead to scroll from a to z and must scroll back?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
will the upcoming releases support the landscape mode?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paranoid2007:
First of all: Congratulations on this really great application.

I've found a bug, at least on my P3600: If I add a new contact via contact manager and hide the interface, next time I start the program it crashes. Somehow the device then seems to try to start the default contacts application, not sure...

EDIT: Maybe the problem is somehow related to the one in posting no #334
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] innovaciones:
Title for each letter of the alphabet

Will be possible to add a title for each letter of the alphabet like the iPhone, will be great if this can be turn on or off from the settings.ini, i think this could be very useful when you are scrolling and you have a lot of contacts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lvballer06:
Contact Manager 0.9 CAB File

Just thought I would share the .cab I made for this app. I hope tene doesnt mind but I added a icon, and made it map the right softkey to this app. ;) Hope you all enjoy like I do. And tene if you do indeed mind me posting, I will remove it. Just let me know.

~Mike

Contact Manager 0.9 CAB File
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neonstorm:
New Favorite Icon...

Just a small contribution... I made a smaller fav icon based on a large clipart I downloaded... It fits the fav picture much better.

*Remember - the fuchsia background is transparent in ContactManager. ;)

Ryan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gadgetfarmer:
Here's the new cab file with Black Touch Theme.

Enjoy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
A few posts back I mentioned about the RAM problem when I use CM. Anyone can confirm that? Is this a bug or just the characteristic of the application?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] friguy33:
Any idea how to show the pager number, i tried %pager, but that just showed "%pager". thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphinxy:
My RAM gets eaten a lil (~5MB) each time i run it.

Thing i wouldn't mind having is back like in Version0.6 - you opened it once and its loaded. So any other time after that (before you do a soft reset) when you click to enter ContactsManager it loads fast and doesnt load up all the contacts again when you reload the program.

Theres my feedback =)

Really great program btw! (Fun too!)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
For 0.9 it's okay, after I'd like to centralize download at one place. Also, please always send me directly by mail version that you create, mostly because I'm curious and I prefer spend time coding that searching forums.

By the way, if you don't mind, I'll use your skills for a cab for the next release...

Thanks I'll try it.

I don't have such issue. I run it once, it takes about 1.3Mb of RAM (I've some picture on contact, about 300 contacts and use a skin, so it's about 500K for skin, 350K for contact, the rest is .NET and the application). How do you measure ram usage?

There is no pager support I'll add it for next version.

5 megs seems a lot to me... how many contact? how many picture on contact?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sbp:
Hi Tene

A few pages back I asked how letters after z is displayed. In the scandinavian countries we have three unique letters æ, ø and å. How does your program manage this?

Steen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
The current version doesn't. In next version I'll try to add the possibility to specify yourself all the letters you want to see in the A_Z index. This we could remove rarely used letters, or add some.

However regarding your specific scenario, in theory (it works for é è and other french accented letters), æ and å should be order with a letter, and ø with o... can you test it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dracula77:
Version without "cab"

Hi tene,

If you gonna post the version with "cab", can you also post the other without "cab" so as we can juz overwrite the previous files in our selected folders in the ppc. Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Yup it's planned this way: a zip file for "experienced user", a "cab" for those who want it to just work...

We'll probably also see "theme cab" containing specific skins... but I'm waiting for some artist to propose their theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dracula77:
I can contribute on the theme, but still have no idea on how to create a "cab" file. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
I like that theme!

You should include gadgetfarmer's theme in any case!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
If you release a wm2003 version, we dont mind testing it... :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RichieRich777:
Awesome!

This is awesome! Thanks for posting...

One question though, is it just that I have too much stuff on my PPC6800 or is this a little slow / non responsive sometimes? I am in no way complaining because I love this program but a few times I had to try more than once to get it to scroll. Is there a particular spot on the screen that you have to move your finger (other than dead center) or may be do I have my screen not set to be sensative enough?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I don't have such problem.

However, when you start the application, I load the contact in a separate thread, that may cause some problem. I reduced this thread priority in next version, it may be better. Also the contact picture may take some time to load, again I've made some improvment in this for the next release.

I'm sorry I can't help that much, as long as I can't reproduce an issue it's hard for me to fix.

Also, memory consumption will be a lot better for people with lot of contact picture in next version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
I've iLauncher installed and meter to display the RAM usage. After a soft reset and the only application launch is Contact Manager, the RAM dropped from 26.8 to 26.1MB. After I use the Contact Manager, i.e. accessing the detail page of a contact, and come back to the Today screen, the RAM usage display 14+MB. With no other application running, I think the RAM should be taken up by Contact Manager. I have the 5MB lost each time I opened Contact Manager before too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Strage, can anyone reproduce this issue?

I don't use iLauncher, what is it? is it free? (or a trial version available, so I can try to reproduce).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hecatomb:
Here's the .DLL files I had to put in the same directory as CM... this fixed those errors for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sphinxy:
I have around 110 contacts.

I have around 30 picture contacts tho...

Ahhh, now i realise the difference between Hide and Closing the application.

Its reserving around 5mbs of memory for it tho...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Lvballer06:
No problem. Your the boss. ;) And whenever your ready I can wipe up as many cabs as you like. :) You know how to reach me.

~Mike
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tizzi:
peux-tu rendre la liste des contacts tournes dans les 2 sens a 360 degre, au lieu de de faire decouller de A a Z et puis de Z-A?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] takmsdsm:
Heres how to replace the regular "Contacts" shortcut with this one.

Go to this entry in the registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSCONTACTS

change,

String 1

from :MSPOUTLOOK contacts

to "\Program Files\Contact Manager\Contact Manager.exe"

Make sure that you add the "" on the new entry.

Now the contacts shortcut and contacts softkey (phone and mainpage) will go to the new program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] macguffin:
Brilliant, been looking for this for ages and ages, thanks for the post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pdawhore:
How can i apply background pictures??

Once again great app....i am running 0.9 but try no matter how hard it won't show my wallpaper...i have change the necessary lines in the ini file to match the name of the wallpaper and still no effect...any help is appre.....thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
If you want me to have a look, you can send me your ini file and your wallpaper.

Are you running on a VGA device?

Where is the background (wallpaper) located?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
this looks great :)

can you do my a little favor? could you please upload the tsk file which you have used for this screenshot, please? :)

edit: found it already ^^

i have a little bug with ContactManager: if i use the "hide" button, no taskmanager (htc button and sbp pocketplus' alt-tab switcher) can recognize this app. only using regular the ok/close makes this app visible within the basic taskmanagers.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] innovaciones:
Do you remove the "#" ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NRGZ28:
That's a feature, not a bug..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] roboHaxx:
tene,

thanks for a really sharp program. major props to you!

i had memory leak problems with 0.6, so I stopped installing updates for a while. I just installed 0.9 and I'm hoping it's okay now.

One suggestion, if I may. On initial load of my 500+ contacts, I can't tell when the program is finished loading. perhaps an hourglass (or spinny thingy) would be appropriate to let me know the program is busy.

thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NickyBoy:
Hi Tene,

Just to inform you of a bug.

When select 'Favourites', the list of favourite contacts are shown and there's a 'All Contacts' at the bottom. This is good.

But when select 'All Contacts' from 'Favourites' screen, the main list shows with 'Back' at the bottom left. I think should be 'Favourite'.

Btw, I'm arranging to donate some Euros to you for your wonderful creation.

As I don't have a credit card, I need use a friend's.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ericizzy1:
hi

thank you, worked like a charm
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pdawhore:
@TENE my ini and wallpaper

Hi there ...my wallpaper is located in the same folder as the exe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Quickly: try to remove the # in front of

#background_image_list=list.png

#background_image_detail=background.png

# is for comment, every line starting with # isn't not considered as a setting.

Tell me if it works
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pdawhore:
@tene ..ini settings

thank you it now shows my wallpaper...also can you please post the ''lines'' needed to format the contacts as firstname/lastname/phone/email/..also is it possible to dial the number direct from in the program without having to exit?.i.e start contact program/select contact/press talk button thank you in advance...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hipnetic:
Can you tell me if you created this with VS.NET, C#, and the Compact Framework? I got a Mogul/PPC-6800 a few days ago and only have a little over a week to decide if I'm going to keep it. I was hoping to develop some finger-friendly applications for it using C# but wasn't sure what was possible. I've heard some state that CF apps are memory hogs, and I'm hoping that's not the case because I don't have the time to learn C++.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Yes it's a .NET application.

it's partially right that .NET use lot of resources, you can do some things about it. Also for contactmanager, I don't use lot of framework classes, I've build my own rendering engine. That's how I do fancy effect, while still getting decent performance.

The main problem for me with compact framework is that most of the useful things need interrop to play with... for instance I'd like to get access to the SMS inbox.. that doesn't seem easy.

Also something that will always be rather long: application launch... it's not a big issue here as long as it starts once and is hidden for the rest of the time... but for other kind of application it may not be the perfect platform.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bsomerton:
Along with many others, I applaude your work. Great application. Thank you. I have left a little something for you in PayPal.

I do have one request. Is it possible to display only the contact name, (i.e. not display the second line of text per contact) in the main scrolling screen? Is that easily done in settings? (if so I apologise as I must have missed it).

Bruce Somerton
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks a lot.

In theory: in settings.ini, change the contact_secondline_formatting, so it's equal to a single space character:

"contact_secondline_formatting= "

(without the # in front of course, otherwise the app will threat is as a comment and won't use it).

Tell me if it works for you!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ekksman:
Hi

what a great app, the scrolling is a bit jerky on my vario2, and yes the letters on the left could be a bit bigger, im also having problems closing whilst it is running i have to go to running programs and stop from there, everything else is fine.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SuPreme1:
is there anyway for it to be routed to a soft key or something instead of being in front of my homescreen and background??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] myRIGHT:
Hi,tene

i have HTC Tytn,os 2005 and i have 273 contact

about V0.2:

-about scroll the idea is that if i will use my finger to scroll without using the index the scrolling is heavy but if i will use the index it will so fast so try to speed up the scrolling itself without the index use.

-the sliding is excellent no problem in that

-the idea of alpha.index was not clear to me,now it is clear to use the idex but based on that i will know the position of each letter on the screen (this will come by the time)

keep it up i like it

thanks tene
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] k2e15:
I can open the file up on my ppc but it doesnt stay, meaning it loads but when i close the application and go to my today screen i get the standard wm6 contacts setup.. i know this may be a dumb question but i cant find a solution and i have done alot. resets etc.. any help would be great.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] shaileshashar:
Very good and innovative thinking, I espcially liked the alphabet thingy it makes the whole thing very useful.

There is a problem with minimizing/closing the app.

Also whats the point of showing the contact details along with 'call','sms' etc buttons.u can directly show the 'default contact details screen' as we can call and sms and even edit directly from there.

Also try and make the scrolling more smoother as with larna's app.

Pls do the above changes, i want to assign it to a hardware key.

Keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] atomicshockwave:
could u re-phrase these parts?

im guessing 10*320 and 220*30 are the sizes you need? that isent in pixels is it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gabbyg:
Crash

ContactManager.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Hehe, that's the message I get when I try to run it in WinXP. It partially runs and it also increases my curiosity to try this out.

Anyway, you probably don't have WM 2003 device but I was wondering if you can try to create a version for it anyway using an emulator. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Hi atomicshockwave,

I'll try to clarify, all size are in pixel, width*height.

- The A_Z index is an image of 10 * device height.

- The contact list show a list of contact of 220 *device height. And each contact is 32 pixels height. (so every contact is 220*32).

- The contact detail panel takes the whole screen, that's the part I find the most ugly.

I'll take anything, but I prefer a look that integrates itself in a windows mobile... not an iPhone copy ;) Maybe a basic skinning or some registry tweak may comes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
gabbyg,

Unfortunately to access the contact data, I use some WM5 specific API. I don't think it's possible, however I have a device for one week, and developing this app for 2 days... I still have lot to learn. If by chance you know any .NET 2.0 application that deals with contacts and run on WM2003?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
that's why it's a .NET application but in XP not found poom functions... :P personally i don't like .NET

pro

- easy programming

cons

- less performance

- less control

- much memory used

I prefer native code. your index is still to much on the left move it about 2px on the right and maybe use bold font :) Just a tip. btw nice job.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] renierx:
Index search problem

Very nice application, Tene!

There is a problem using the index. If my contact list contains contacts beginning with "national" letter like "Č" or "Š", the index search doesn't work, it always finds the first such contact. These contacts are sorted correctly in contact list (ie. "Č" contacts are after "C" contacts, "Š" contacts are after "S" contacts, etc.).

Keep your good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'll move the index 2 px.

Regarding .NET, I almost agree with you, at first I thought this application would be slow as hell on windows mobile... but apparently it's not that bad. If the performance start to be a prob, I'll probably move to native.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gabbyg:
Maybe Guybrush or larna may be able to help you there. They have versions of contact app that works great on wm 2003 device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Furbious:
Thanks for the app - only 2 problems i see:

No minimise - i can hide it by running messages or whatever, but when bringing the phone back out of sleep its always on top. As on the previous posts, could you allow it to minimise? I've got it mapped to a key at the moment, and it takes a few seconds to initialise otherwise.

Alternate scrolling - i'd disable allowing using the scrollwheel/direction keys, as a slight brush against these sends the list upwards only.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
should be fixed in 0.3, however I just create one test case, tell me if you have issue.

Minimize should work now.

Scrolling should work with keypad (tested on a Touch only).

and thanks all for your feedback, please keep going, and suggest idea for favorites screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] renierx:
Works fine, thanks! Btw, the index selection graphics is much better now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jolas:
Dear tene,

contactmanager is getting better and better. I tried it on a vga screen (qtek 9000) and when the application first starts I can see it only in the quarter of my screen. But, if I select a contact, then the application is becoming full screen, and when I return in the first menu (contact selection), this time it is in full screen mode.

Thank you for your effords.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Anth:
Your application is so WOW~

I love it.

Here is the bug I found. When my contact don have mobile phone entered (only work phone provided), the field will shows emtpy.

Keep it on, dude :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
Hi

This is a great piece of application! Keep up the good work. Think you will be able to develop it into a great piece of work! Looking forward to it.

When use it on my Trinity, it doesn't seem to display the photo of my contacts clearly. Kinda blur. Is this normal?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Depends what do you call Blurry? I just take the contact picture, and make it pretty small, maybe that's the reason? Is it better in other application?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
It's by SBSH (www.sbsh.net). Need to pay for it, but pretty cheap. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xvx45:
I've made a few skin named "classic style"

It's only for QVGA devices (not VGA!)

download : HERE

For installation, decompress where you want and replace original files where you've installed ContactManager.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bsomerton:
Hi Tene,

It does remove the text but what I was actually after was to try and aliminate the second line so as to get more contacts on the screen at one time. (Perhaps if I had asked the right question I might get the right answer , sorry).

Bruce Somerton
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrclowny:
how do you install this? I downloaded the newest file to my phone, I ran the executable... But none of the softkeys changed.. am i missing something? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gtm55:
you have to edit the settings file and modify:

...

# Height of contact in the list

contact_height=

....

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bsomerton:
It's easy when you know how. Thank you!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MaH112:
Hey Tene,

first of: great app. really appreciate it!

i was wondering if there is any possibility to config the ini file in such way that it shows either home address or work address.

i'm thinking of certain contacts that either have only a company address or only a home adress. if i'm not mistaken by now i can only chose to show only one sufficiently.

wouldn't it be nice to have an option to give priorities to the adresses; like if both available, show "home" first...?

tene, do you think, that's possible? or is it already but i'm too dumb to realize?

tanks.