yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Tene,

Fantastic job so far! Excellent! Here are my observations, some have already been posted, and 2 BUGS.

First, the BUGs:

-If you edit a contact so you can delete it, then go back to the list, the spot in the list it used to Occupy is still there, but it's blank. When I closed ContactManager I got an exception (it may or may not have been because of this, I am not sure).

-Select a contact, select EDIT, click on MENU at the bottom to open the menu list, click it again to minimize the menu, then click MENU again to open it up. ContactManager just closes at this point. Running an HTC Apache with WM5

Suggestions:

-When using right thumb on left edge, you cannot see the letter, and vice versa because it is hidden by your thumb. To satisfy all, how about you display the arrow marker on BOTH edges of the screen, that way it does not matter which finger is used on which edge. :)

-As also mentioned, if no telephone entry is entered into the "mobile phone" field, no number is displayed, even if you have a "work" number entered.

-Again, as mentioned, being able to customize the colors of the background, Main text color, and secondary text colors would be fantastic.

My Biggest wish however, is that it did not require the .NET Compact Framework. I'm using it on my Apache, WM5, and Memory storage is at a premium. The .NET 2.0 framework takes up a good chunk of storage memory..and would rather not have to have it installed.

Otherwise, again, fantastic job!

Regards,

Greg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ong9:
Tene,

Thank for your reply, I found that the standard contact also have the Thai display problem after the .NET Compact Framework 's installed. so I think it's not about the contact manager but the .NET Compact Framework 've some conflict with Thai . I'm not sure , Is this effect to other language.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Actually it does skip 100 pixels, so 3.25 contacts ;)... It was something I made for testing/debugging purpose will be correct in 0.4. Thanks for the report.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Carnivor:
you can do it through your desktop, or find a free notepad app, theres a couple around
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] geekyhawkes:
thanks for that guys.

Does anyone have a few example .ini's / screen shots. This program is very cool and would be nice to see some other peoples tweaks.

As an aside, has anyone noticed that it doesnt update to allow new contacts to be displayed? I have added a few contacts since installing and not one of them is showing in the contacts manager? Do i need to refresh it somehow?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Woife:
"My" ContactManager...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dericion:
contactmanager and sms threader

hi tene!

what a terrific program!!!

just a thot,

i was wondering whether i can open my this sms program-sms threader using the sms mobile program from CM? i don't really use the default sms program from WM6. what configurations do i have to do?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks!

No, because:

- I don't like XML

- XML is complex, long to parse (comparing to text file)

- ini file are a lot faster, my app already takes too long to load, I don't want to add XML to that ;)

What SMS-threader do you use? currently you can't.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dericion:
sms threader + contact manager

pls find the attached cab for yr kind perusal

i got error when i first installed it.

but after a hard reset, i installed the sms threader program, SR, active sync all my contacts b4 i installed yr CM0.10

and it works!!!

but i hope that i can open this sms threader from yr mobile sms icon. thanks for yr quick reply & hard work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] geekyhawkes:
tene;

any idea why my new contacts are not showing up? Do i need to refresh the list some how?

Thanks for the top program you have made!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
anything on this tene?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
What is this SMS Threader all about? Why do you prefer it to default WM app?

Thanks!

Dax.

(PM reply is fine)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] badwolf:
have mogul, applied updated rom and now not getting full screen...

way to hide header in registry?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
No idea, a soft reset doesn't work?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] callmemoe:
Fully exit the program (don't just hide/minimize it) then reopen it. The new contacts should show.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I have saw your message, no need to spam the forum about it.

The technical problem is to distinguish activation between contact edit, sms typing, and switching the app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agovinoveritas:
Would you care to post the files? It seems like a really nice config.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Woife:
Here you go: ContactManager and theme.

Attachment removed. Sorry tene!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Please DO NOT distribute ContactManager, link to my website.....

However you can still, of course, distribute the them part (settings.ini and picture), so you can share the theme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agovinoveritas:
Alright. Sorry.

How about just the *.ini and config files then?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CrashC:
Loading contacts off my SIM and onto memory solved my issue as you said it would. Being new to PDA phones, I wasn't aware I would need to do this and just assumed keeping it on the SIM would be better in case the device crashed or was broken.

Stupid question, but I've searched this thread for 'close' and 'exit' and can't seem to find an answer... is there a way to have the app close on X out? On my AT&T8525 running HTC Official WM6 ROM, X minimizes and continues to eat up memory when not in use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's how smartdevice application are designed, you run them, they stay in memory. Windows Mobile can decide to kill them if he needs more memory.

However, in the memory control panel, you can kill application if you want to. There are also some "task manager" (like the one coming by default on my HTC Touch) that allow you to kill app instead of close.

However, I'm quite new to this also, so maybe other people will provide better answer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Woife:
Skin and theme for ContactManager without binary as requested.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
sorry tene.. wasn't sure if you saw it or not...

how about a timeout that brings the app back to 'all contacts' after 30 seconds in the fave or contact detail screen?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agovinoveritas:
Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Can't view all my contacts

I can view contacts from A-D and nothing after that. All the contacts that are from A-D work great. When I remove ContactManager I'm able to view and work with any and all of my contacts.

When I install the CAB or ZIP everything goes well no install problems or errors

When I start up ContactManager no errors come up and seems to be running perfectly

If I hit the letters to the left "Z" it only goes to the "D" Contacts?

In as much reading that I can, can't seem to find what the cause is.

Is there any known programs that would stop this from working?

It just kills me not to fully use the program. But from the limited use I can see how much easier it will be to find contacts.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Edu115:
I really like this app. Only two things bothering me:

The colors are crappy for me. Very dark... Maybe if you could put a white and blue theme...

And the feeling of the scrolling isn't really that great. I personally think the iMedia one is a lot smoother.

But overall, a good app for a 0.10 version!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tylox:
Hi guys,

i guess i'm really stupid but i can't found how can i delete a contact directly from CM ? is it possible ?

BTW, this software is :eek: awesome :eek: !! i can't wait for the 0.11 version !!

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackleung:
I post this request before but haven't got a reply yet.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyesmell:
Has anyone made a nice, pretty theme for this yet? I made a decent glass looking theme but i'd like to see other peoples....would be nice if you could add individual gradients behind each contact to maybe make each contact look like a button....kinda iphoneish i suppose....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyesmell:
When you goto the detail view of any contact with no picture set, it puts an ugly looking Live messenger type icon with a transparent background, anyone know where the image file is located or if theres a way to customize it? I don't think it was in the settings.ini
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
look at : "default_contact_image"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lutzh:
this is by far the most useful application for contacts management on the htc touch. if i would be htc i would buy this application from you within this minute!

thank you for your work!

best regards, lutz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ZuZ:
UPDATED :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] charmer:
Multi-line addresses now working like a dream. Thanks very much for the update!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Who get it?

It's the last news update for 0.11... who found the most important announcement? :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] KeKeTTe:
nice job, thx dude
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tomste:
Thanks! It is gret!

Tom
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tompouce:
thanks tene, works great...:D

ps: since 0.11 version, fullscreen stretch the app fullscreen but with topbar visible on top.

bye

WM5, loox N560, vga
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
Localization support

what does this do ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Edu115:
I've translated the lang file to portuguese.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ericchancy:
I also encountered the same problem. My contact list displayed upto "J" contacts. Even I'd uninstalled the 0.10 version and updated to the 0.11 version, the problem still exist. Did anyone comes with the same problem or is there anything wrong with my setting? I didn't touch the setup.ini file after the installation and I'm using Dopod 838pro with WM6. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Woife:
Fantastic job, tene. Many thanks.

Just one note: the string "new contact" in the contact list can't be localized.

Woife
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nesty24:
Hey Tene!

Hey Bro!

Great update there! But I have just thought you've fixed the issue about the update method in your coding.

What I mean to say is the edit option you've made. When you already open CM and hide it (of course it is not closed) and open the built-in contact app in your device and edit or create new contact, your app (CM) seems not updating its view when you open it again. What you've change in the built-in contact in the device didn't change in the CM. But if you use the edit button in CM and change a contact, it will update, its because CM is aware of what you've changed. Another is, when you edit the first letter of a contact (the first letter you have sorted), the contact is still in that place. Ex. edit the name "Illidan" to "Yllidan", the name "Yllidan" was still on the letter "i" list.

The method you use while opening CM (not came from hide) can also use after you've change or edit a contact by informing the user that CM needs to restart to take effect or call the method again.

I know that you know what I've talking about because it's your app.

Nweiz, just trying to help you and other to get CM be a reliable app.

Tnx for reading bro!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nesty24:
It's me again Tene!

The version number of your app really bothers me.

Ex. If you update your app and add .1 in version number .8, the version number will become .9, right?

But if you add .1 again to version number .9, it become version number 1.

After you've update your app from .9, it become .10. I'm sorry but I laughed at it. I think its wrong.

Is it just what you like, or trip, or you just don't know that?

I think you knew that because your a great programmer.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DADy444:
Hi, tene

thanks for you great works...

I've translated the lang file to Russian.

We are waiting another lang index search (if it's possible ;-)

Sorry for my English (I'm NOT Englishman in New York :-)

WBR, DADy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ginex:
On the HTC Touch you have to map the Contact button on the today screen to ContactManager.exe.

Goto Registry , then go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\ and create the 113 Key (that seems doesn't exists). Then add a new Key "Open" and put the whole path to the executable.

Here's the italian translation for the 0.11 release

Rename it .ini after download instead of txt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kelvino9:
Great work Tene,

just downloaded version 0.11 and the German language file, but noticed it was Dutch and not German.

I translated it to German and uploaded it for everyone.

Maybe you can add it to your site and rename the Dutch localization to lang.nl.ini instead of lang.de.ini

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks I'll add it for the next version.

Well this mode of counting is simple, and used in lot of project (think linux kernel for instance). Using your view of thing, you'll end with 0.9.1 version because it's not 1.0 yet, but not 0.9, then imagine long term: 0.9.9.9.9.9.1 etc... So it's simple: MAJOR.MINOR, MAJOR and MINOR are decimal number.

Regarding the update of contact list, I'm working on it, but it's a part where .NET start lacking too much stuff... give me some time, and you can end up with something you'll like (I hope :p).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks, I always make this mistake... should be fixed now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] znos:
The Hungarian translation:

View attachment lang.hu.zip
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kelvino9:
No problem, that's why we are all here for each other ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Tene i post a translation for portuguese br (is not the same portuguese) but i think you dont see it.

please include it on website

=(

Edit: Please use this attachment file
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kelvino9:
Sorry Tene,

have to play wise a** again.

You accidently mixed it up a little:

Deutch > lang.de.zip > lang.de.ini (should be German > lang.de.zip > lang.de.ini)

German > lang.nl.zip > lang.de.ini (should be Dutch > lang.nl.zip > lang.nl.ini)

You get my point:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] idiom:
Hi.

Great job, thanks

Polish translation
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Added to the site, thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Problens Found:

-Endless Scroll Still stop scrolling on "New Contact"

-Endless Scroll dont work on favorite screen (will never work??)

-"New Contact" on list dont get string from locale file.

-Edit a contact dont go direct to the edit screen (you need open menu again and go to edit)

-After set a picture for a contact you cannot remove it

for now this is all
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'll look into it.

Will never "work", it's by design.

Will be added in next version

I fear that's not possible (with required lot of interrop) in .NET

same as above.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
If only those English would have bothered to tell us apart when they crossed the North Sea! Calling us Germans, what were they thinking?!? ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kelvino9:
Good one :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] h0228631:
There is a problem on my WM6 device. The first contact does not show in the correct place. What I mean is that the first contact starts from the topest of the screen. And the menu bar (that shows the app name, time, close button, etc) blocks nearly the whole first contact.

Also, the first 2 char of the A-Z list on left hand side and block the the block too.

Sorry for my poor English
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] YoLoLo:
:)

Hi Quentin...

Now, i'm an happy man !!! :D

I've just installed and updated the 0.11 at http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com

Great JOB !!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nesty24:
Tnx Tene! I now understand the procedure your doin.

That's really cool man! You rock!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deenice:
Update ContactManager list when changes occur???

This is an awesome product. It works really well. I love the way I can now search contacts. I was wondering if there was a way to trigger a contact list update so that when you go back to scroll new details are there and you don't have to restart the app in the event you:

1) Saved a new contact

2) Updated a contact's info

Something link event generated by contact app, causes the ContactManager's database to update.

thx
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] h0228631:
i figured out the problem. It happened becoz I run it in full screen mode but the top menu bar still appears. When I reset my device, the app becomes real full screen and works fine :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alexey Fominykh:
Tene,

Firstly I would like to express my delight about the application. Good work! Is there any way to donate other than PayPal, e.g. WebMoney? Unfortunately PayPal do not welcome my country in their list.

I think I will express wishes of many users who have contacts in two languages, for instance I have Russian contacts (in Cyrillic) and English/European/other languges contacts (in Latin). What do you think about adding support for at least two types of alphabet simultaneously for contact shortcuts? There can be a lot of combinations which will satisfy most of international users: Latin/Arab, Latin/Chinese, Hebrew/Cyrillic etc, etc, etc.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Tylox:
anybody to answer my question ? "How can i delete a contact ? "

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
sometimes i have this same insue
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stitch.jones:
Hi.

I've a little problem with my TOUCH ( and i think with my english, cos' I'm Italian )

the contactmanager 0.11 works fine when I use it with the soft key; i've remapped the key and i've worked on the registry like you are explained.

but CM doesn't work when I use "contact" in phone screen or in the page of touch cube ( the page with contact photos ).

the error sounds like "i can't open ContactManager. problems with digital certificate \ to find a program component"

what's appened ?

tks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] luxmen:
Génial

Superbe...cette version est terrible.... UN BIG MERCI !!!

Big thx for this nice version !!!

Please continu your work.... ;-)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Hi it's a known issue. The problem, is that your "program files" folder is not "program files".

Update the following key:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:M SCONTACTS

Change "String 1" value from :MSPOUTLOOK contacts to "\Program Files\ContactManager\ContactManager.exe".

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

Except put the real location of ContactManager.exe (between double quote!) instead of "\Program Files\ContactManager\ContactManager.exe".

I'll try to fix this issue in the cab.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Go to a contact, tap the picture, in the menu, choose edit. In this window, the lower right softkey will allow you to delete.

There's not delete feature in ContactManager yet, mostly because I don't think it's a primary user scenario (it's a lot more important to update contact list correctly if you change it in an external app) and because it would require some confirmation dialog (so more development).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] badwolf:
dont mean to be stupid but look where. i dont see it in the ini file...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Well then add a setting like:

default_contact_image=my_beautiful_face.png

should work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neonstorm:
Any thoughts on using Cleartype? I don't know it's effects in terms of performance, but it would look nice... :cool:

Ryan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyesmell:
Thank you, this worked perfectly. I didn't mean to call the icon you were using ugly....I just didn't like the way it looked on the skin I'm working on. Thanks for the app, it works great. I'll try .11 when i get home.

As for my 2 cents....i think the scrolling could use some improvement, its kind of jerky sometimes but everything else is great..

Also this may be impossible (I have no coding knowledge what-so-ever) but how hard would it be to animate the dialer sliding in after you touch the button to call someone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] uniqueboy:
Hi tene, thanks for you beautiful app. it is very cool and hard to think of any constructive criticism at all. The only thing I can come up with is when moving between screens with a gesture, it would look nice if the new screen slid out from the direction of the swipe, if that makes any sense.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Myster:
I cannot make the Index work in Localized version , I copied the localization file downloaded from your site in program's installation directory and rebooted but still all is in English ( interface & index )

I think the Installer from your site is older than 0.11 version ( date of .exe for 0.11 13-07-07 )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ericchancy:
Incomplete contacts in 0.11 version

Does anyone know the problem? I love this app so much and dont want to delete it because of such problem.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
Option to CLOSE program..not HIDE

PLEASE give us the ability to CLOSE the app and not just HIDE it. I don't want it holding up 500k of memory when I'm not using it and I don't mind waiting 2 seconds for it to load from program storage.

If I missed a setting in the .ini or docs that already enables this I apologize. It's a very nice program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyesmell:
You could disable fullscreen mode...then just use the 'X' to close it....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mike3343:
I looked through this thread and didn't see anything so I apologize if this was already addressed.

Is there a way to make the program go back to the all contacts screen once it is hidden? If I select a contact and then click hide, when I bring it back up it is still on that contact.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eyesmell:
There may be a problem with your install, but I believe the way it's supposed to work is, if you want to go back to the all contacts screen.....you push the left soft key which should be labeled 'back' ....also you could just touch the word 'back' aswell and get the same effect
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] steb0ne:
Select the contact, then click on the little "messenger" like space and select edit contact. That will take you to the original contacts screen and you can press menu then delete contact from there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wratran:
does the new version display address?