yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] callmesnake:
New Idea

Hi

I suggest your next project will be like the iPhone photo viwer , when i scroll my hand on the photo left or right you bring the next photo on a folder.

As you already made the transaction effect on this program, it will be so easy to display photo and by the touch of your finger get the next photo or prev photo, also you can make a way lto zoom in and out like draw square with my hand to zoom this area and double click to zoom out..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Today with the current version, it's not possible. The problem to implement such feature is that people will want different thing, it would be quite easy to decide that one address is always first... but some people will want the other... and it will become rather complex to make a simple configuration file to allow complex thing... However I'll think about it. For now I'm mostly looking at performance improvement... that why there is no version today.

But maybe you can think about a simple syntax that would allow to parametrize this, without taking to much computation time?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MaH112:
I hear ya man. :)

Balls to you, the app so far rocks majorly!

Sorry to disappoint you. I have absolutely no clue about programming.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] divad1978:
3rd party text message program

Is it possible to make ContactManager load a 3rd party textmanager program instead simply loading the built in text messenger program?

-david
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] noahv:
Contact Manager 0.9 Error Log

I installed CM0.9 on my Hermes, and mapped the Contacts to it as per instructions in the thread above. Works fine, except for the first time I launched it and set a contact to a Favorite - I got the following error log. Not sure what this means, and it hasn't happened since.

(also, is there a way to implement a Category Filter in CM so that I only show contacts that have a given Category tag?)

ContactManager.exe
InvalidOperationException
Can't modify the item collection inside a foreach statement

at PimItemCollectionEnumerator.collection_ListChanged()
at Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.PimItemCollection.ItemChanged()
at Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.PimItem.Update()
at Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.Contact.Update()
at ContactManager.ContactPanelDetail.OnSetAsFavoriteButton()
at ContactManager.Button.PerformClick()
at ContactManager.Button.OnMouseUp()
at ContactManager.ContainerPanel.OnMouseUp()
at ContactManager.BorderContainerPanel.OnMouseUp()
at ContactManager.ContainerPanel.OnMouseUp()
at ContactManager.ContactPanelDetail.OnMouseUp()
at ContactManager.ContactManagerForm.OnMouseUp()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc()
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WnProc()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WnProc()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc()
at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop()
at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()
at ContactManager.Program.Main()
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] friguy33:
thanks...i love using it but need to see a person pager number. cant wait. one question. should we not be closing the program? i put it in the exception list in pocket plus, is that the same as clicking "hide?"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] roboHaxx:
I just can't run this app. too bad, too. i really love it. i've got 567 contacts, and it must be too many to load into memory. When I load it, the app runs beautifully, but a lot of other things... notifications, email, etc. stop responding.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deanerh:
Error after changing sort

Wnted the list to sort by last name so I modified the settings.ini file by moving %lastname to the first spot on the sort line. it now reads:

contact_sort_expression=%lastname %firstname %middlename

It worked, but now everytime I close the app, I get an Unexpected Error message. Any ideas?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NickyBoy:
Hi Tene,

Just found another bug that wasn't present in v0.8.

The display is not set for landscape.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deanerh:
One problem solved...another question

Solved this problem....error only occurs if I try to close before the app has completely processed my Contacts.

New Question

: Is there a way to get this app to load in the background when Windows starts so that it is processing the Contacts? Not sure I can trim down my Contacts enough to keep the processing time down to a reasonable amount of time. I've got about 500. I've tried to add apps to the Windows/Startup directory before, but then they wind up being what you see when Windows finishes loading, instead of the Today screen. I guess a related question is will ContactsManager continue processing the contacts if its not the active application?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
In theory contact loading should continue, but for now, I guess the main issue is that at startup the application will appear... however I'm not sure: I almost never softreset my phone for "normal usage" (I do it sometime for debugging/development purpose), you're soft-resetting often?

I've tried to reduce memory footprint a little bit in 0.10, you can get it from http://www.pocketcm.com.

Regarding loading time, I'll think about it, but right now I'm exploring other way of making it faster... wait and see ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
I have a scheduled soft reset at 4am every day. Keeps everything running smoothly, less crashes with software like TomTom6, which is a little heavy on resources.

0.10? Has ContactManager regressed? :D

All the best,

Dax.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Oh, BTW, have you considered putting a config page into ContactsManager?

I know it's not hard to edit using the ini file, but it would be nice - especially since you could save presets that way.

Scroll momentum: I would be great if the user could adjust scrolling parameters, the way you can in Guybrush's app. How's about it? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's now that I'm happy to have a separate GPS :p

In my country, 10 is after 9 ;) By the way, regression is only planned for next version :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Not really configuration is quite complex, imagine the kind of screen required to allow you to do all the flexibility allowed by ini file? However I'm thinking of a skin system: a screen where the user choose the skin... and maybe some of the "skin independant" setting will be configurable.

In my experience, good scrolling is good scrolling... however, what would you like to change about scrolling? My point is that most of the time, it's more confusing and we end by resetting to "factory default".... and if we don't, it's probably because factory default should be changed ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Tene,

For those who want it, in the current settings.ini you forgot to include the setting that allows you to remove the "favorites" image from the main lists. It still works, but someone new to the app wouldn't know about it since it has been accidentally left out.

"draw_favorite_image_on_list=0"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks Greg3D, I've updated the zip.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
The skin system is a grand idea, with skin specific settings saved in a seperate .ini file (button fonts, colors, positions, button images/heights, etc).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] psvillars:
awesome programs from everyone so far! has anyone thought to make an image and/or email application with the finger friendly theme? that would be awesome. my apologies if this is off topic.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Alternate Button Index images

I use one of these depending on my color scheme, figured I would share. The index font appears in the middle of the screen nice and big much like the default Windows Mobile contacts font. This way no matter which hand you use, and which side you use to scroll the index you can always see the font. My fingers are fat enough that the default index image/font gets hidden.

Remember, the Fushia color is transparent in Contact manager.

A good Font size for the index letter is:

feedback_font=48,bold

And the center x-position of the font on a QVGA screen should be:

feedback_text_x_position=116

The Height of the image is such so that the Index letter gets erased. Currently in Contact manager, if the font is Taller than (or overlaps) the index image, it doesn't erase itself leaving a trail of screen garbage up and down the screen.

Tene, is this something you can fix so that I can crop these images to reduce file/memory size?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's probably something that I can fix... (because it's a bug) however regarding memory, it will not make a big difference, I know that 1Kb is 1Kb. I'll try to push it for the next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Whenever you get to it, it's not a major thing as you mentioned. But even with your default index image, if the font is not drawn within it's boundaries...say you move the Font to the center of the screen (while keeping your default image), it won't get erased.

Again, no rush as it's a minor cosmetic flaw.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] politisnik:
Language change?

Once again a great thanks to all of you people who revolutionary change the way we use our favorite gadgets:)

Tene, one question please? Is it possible to work with another language? Lets say greek? I mean how can i change the A_Z scroll to see greek alphabet?

Thanks a lot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
I find it's not "slippery" enough. When I slide it, it doesn't keep going for very long. I guess just too much virtual friction.

I wish I could make it more slidey like Larna's app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Right now I don't think you can. Perhaps Tene can add that to the settings.ini, where you can specify the charachters to be used for the index...perhaps even leaving out characters so that it will even fit in landscape mode, or maybe a different index string (ie: every other letter such as ACEGIKMOQSUWY) for portrait and landscape modes.

That may be too tall an order to ask having two different ones, but maybe the one.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
in my opinion the htc touch skin is not neutral enough to be the default skin. it should be replaced. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] golias:
I really like the way this app. is looking. I always believed that our pda's should be run by finger and not stylus.

Congrats on a really god work!

I have a suggestion (you may even say it is a dream ;-) would it be possible to have a big "back" button in the propeties screen of a contact? Currently you have to press the soft key on the lower left corner, and that is not very finger friendly. Currently there are two big buttons: place call and send sms. maybe below there could be a third button just with a simple "back" functionality. I believe there is enough space and from my understanding it would help a bit.

Like everything in the world there is always space for improvement, but you have already done a really good job.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
awesome

0.10 seems to be working faster, more smothly on my wizard :)

Ideas...

-option to remove the list second line (tried specifying no format but name i snot centered then)

-option to hide the soft menu (Favorites Hide), buttons should still work though

-option to refresh (refresh settings and re-scan the contacts, could be on contact detail popup)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
First I agree with you... earlier version included a big back button... then I moved it to the menu, because it's more "standard"... then in 0.10 I added gesture, I think it's a good solution: if on the contact detail screen, you move your finger left to right, or right to left, it will go back. The same occur in contact list: it will go to favorite (and back). Please tell me if it's working as expected...basically you have to draw an horizontal line on the screen to go back... personnaly I really love it, and I thank people suggesting it!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Great, that's "normal"... I've a little bit improved memory management, it shoudl take less resource... however I'm still looking for more perf improvement...

You can remove the line, and change the contact line height... what you may need if you just want the name centered, is a way to offset vertically the first line....I'll think about it.

It's not trivial, and it can be confusing, but I keep it in the "idea box" ;)

I agree with you, actually I'm looking for a solution to make it "automatic"... if any developer knows a solution to that? (in .NET...).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
Yes, it works just great! Even without the biotouch screens. Well done...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] golias:
Yes, the gesture solves the back functionality "request".

In the meantime I found one bug. If I have a contact with address, in the detail of this contact the address string is cut, only showing around 24 characters and the rest... obviously goes out of screen. Could it be possible to create two lines when the adrress string is bigger than what can be seen in the screen.

Source:

Rua Professor Prado Coelho 44

Lisboa

Portugal

Currently showing:

Rua Professor Prado Coelh

Lisboa

Portugal

Sugestion:

Rua Professor Prado

Coelho 44

Lisboa

Portugal

If I edit the contact and create the two lines in order to workaround the string cut what happens is that the "Coelho 44" part of the string is overwriting the "Lisboa" string. Making it obviously unreadable.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
better than ever, but I would like a transparent background?

how do I adjust? with the code 255,0,255?

and no more, or is there still which?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
What do you call transparent background? The background of the app will never be transparent, that's mostly a limitation of our windowing system (under almos any OS). It can be simulated in some way, but on our devices, it's probably gonna be slow as hell for a very little added value.

For the rest of the image, they can be "transparent" (the color fuschia is not drawn) so the background or whatever that was below appear.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Carnivor:
Im using this on my JasJar and its brilliant, very slick!!!! the only downside for me is i have around 250 contacts all with pictures, so its consuming around 15mb of ram. and it dosent appear to release the memory when you close the app, even using 3rd party task manager shows contactmanager.exe as closed, so i know im not just minimising it, even so, i love it, ive set it as my default pim and got all button mappings pointing to it instead of the default contact app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
I want transparent background for:

# Background color and image background color=????????

# now you can use fushchia as transparent (no border)

contact_photo_favorite_border_color=?????????

contact_photo_border_color=?????????

contact_photo_background_color=?????????

menu_border_color=????????

which I must with?????? tap thereby the background or border is transparent?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Hi,

Lot of image will be an issue... waiting for a better solution, you can reduce the contact photo size (contact_photo_max_width and contact_photo_max_height). It will reduce the amount of memory used by the application.

Are you using the latest version (0.10), cause for 250 contacts with picture, 15Mb seems a lot to me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
255,0,255 will do the job, in 0.10 only, like it's for the default theme included with 0.10.

From the ini file:

# now you can use fushchia as transparent (no border)

contact_photo_favorite_border_color=255,0,255

contact_photo_border_color=255,0,255

contact_photo_background_color=255,0,255
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
yeah thanks

and for menu_border_color=???????? the same?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
No, it's not supported... however setting the menu border color the same as background will look the same...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
ok thanks can you make this please?

My English is not so good.

I make a picture. ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] colonel00:
Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I did not have time to make it all the way through all 43 pages :D.

A user over at PPCGeeks posted the following reg that will set this app as the default for any of the contacts buttons. This includes the shortcut in the Start Menu, Today softkey, and softkeys/buttons in the phone app. Perhaps this could be added as an option to have the app register to this registry key.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSCONTACTS]
"1"="\\Windows\\ContactManager.exe"

BTW, I have been building this app into my custom Apache roms for a little while now. Aside from the slight delay when the app opens, everything look great. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ericizzy1:
hi

how exactly do i instal version 0.10 as a zip file on my phone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xvx45:
For the buttons images, just make à 1px band of fushia on and under.

(sorry for my poor english :o )
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kelvino9:
Unzip it on your PC and copy the Folder on your device
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
Tanks i tested

Edit: Yeah it's ok
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The_Steph:
Hi tene,

Nice work. Works smoothly on my P3300 :) but all my contacts Home2 fields are empty when shown in details. Small bug ?

The_Steph

PS: What about localisation feature (English is always good for everyone but a way to have it in French or any other language would be nice)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
no, he supported french he must supported german, spain and other.

but then he have no time for the product.

s'il écrit à cela product français doit lui lui aussi en allemand, espagnol et d'autres ne font plus en réalité ont toutefois alors lui de temps pour le produit. La langue mondiale (langage de programmation) est maintenant fois anglaise

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traduit altavista
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neonstorm:
Hmmm... I've done it now. I put my own background in and copied a few settings from the 0.9 settings.ini over to 0.10, and now the popup on the 'Detail' screen is white around the buttons. How to I change this back to the grey from the default? I don't see a specific setting...

Thanks!

Ryan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] afreitas:
Sorry, can you please tell me how can I remove the top bar so I can view this program in fullscreen?

Thanks,

AF
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
Broken link in cab file

The link your cab file installs is wrong...your instructions on webpage say:

You can also do it by hand:

* 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.

The link provided by the cab file is using single 's and has lowercase "program files" and it didn't work till I changed those two things to call contact manager.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
contact manager cab doesn't work for tytn wm6...

it doesn't update the today screen and dialer contacts doesn't work

i had to manually edit regs for today screen

the reason why dialer didn't work was because single quotes were used instead of double quotes
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
Feature Request

will it be possible to have the program default to always open on the 'all contacts' screen...

and also for the contact program to automatically hide when making a call or sms

an example is... when i make a call... the contact program is still open, so i press hide, the next time i run the program to find a contact, it is still in the last contact i used instead of the 'all contacts' screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Which cab...?

When I go the website... (my website) it says: "CAB File coming soon (sorry) : Please note that this version will replace your current contact application with ContactManager, so when you'll click contact somewhere, ContactManager will be used instead. If you're ..."
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
How to install

* For the Cab version, install it as any other application (for instance, copy it to your device, and run the cab file from explorer

* For the ZIP version, simply copy the unzipped file to your device, and run it. This is a simple application, it will no mess with your settings, or replace default contact app. You can just try it, if you don't, just remove the file.

"For the Cab version" is a link to the cab.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] friguy33:
I removed the "%company" string after the %phone, but it still shows the company, any way to remove that? otherwise still loving it!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NickyBoy:
Tene,

I encountered a bug in v0.10.

When I select to edit a contact, the default contacts comes up for me to edit.

After I get out of the default contacts, CM is unable to load again.

There'll be an 'Ok' at the top left corner but that's about all.

I'll need to close all apps running from Task Manager, then re-load CM in order for it to run again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
I believe you did not remove the '#' from the begining of the line. By default CM displays both.

If you want to cusomize it, customize the settings and then remove the '#' from the line:

#contact_secondline_formatting=%phone (%company)\n%mail

The first line of the settings.ini file describes this, that the # is used for a comment (CM ignores anything after it)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cyber-rey:
I installed the 0.10. but problem still, the long address in the contact list and detail out of the screen. some settings can correct it? whatever, I love this software anyway.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tdaubign:
Change the font size and the number of displayed fields in the settings file in order to adpat your contacts to your screen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mccune:
This is really a nice piece of software, the best contact scroller around IMHO :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Carnivor:
yep, i concur, best contact list to date!!!

One quick question, can i use jpg, bmp's or gifs for background images? or is it fixed to png? or has anyone made a VGA theme yet they care to share?

I dont use pics on the contact list now as it chews up way to much ram for anything else to run, even then it still consumes 8.4mb and Task manager tells me its using 400kb which is strange, and this 8.4mb dosent get released after fully closing contactmanager.exe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Try it! that's the easiest way to get a correct answer ;)

by the way, it can be bmp/jpg/gif/etc... ... in theory, you have to try ;) (note that the file format won't change memory usage, but I start to have some doubt about the way some people track memory usage).

regards,

Quentin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Guybrush:
in my device it use "just" 1.30 Mbyte but I've only 21 contacts in POOM checked with handyswitcher of Dinarsoft.