yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dracula77:
Background Colors

hi, if i am not wrong you can change the following in settings.ini

# color for main text (r,g,b)

text_color=33,33,33

# color for second line in contact list

grey_text_color=120,120,120

# background color and image

background_color=255,255,255

By the way the color codes for those who dun know are,

- 120,120,120 = Medium Grey

- 200,200,200 = Light Grey

- 33,33,33 = Almost Black

- 0,0,0 = Black

- 255,255,255 = White

- 255,0,0 = Red

- 0,255,0 = Green

- 0,0,255 = Blue

- 255,0,255 = Transparent Color

Hope it helps :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dracula77:
Yeah same here, i guess it should not be "All Contacts" but rather "Favorites". I think the suggestion of swapping the "Back" button with "Favorites" will be a great idea as requested earlier.

I third the idea :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ong9:
Hi Tene,

After I change from .7 to .8 version , the A-Z index 's change , I mean in v0.7 when I use index it will scroll to where I choose , but in 0.8 ,it 's not scroll but look like it change page which I think the last version 's look better.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] innovaciones:
About 0.8 version

Great update! :) but the up and down buttons are not working, i´m using a Wizard
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gadgetfarmer:
Thanks for this great App

I've created a cab installer with Black Touch Theme, enjoy!!!

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
My v0.8 Skin

If anyone would like to try this out, I've attached my System.ini and new Index feedback image that has a LARGE Index feedback letter center screen.

Check out the attached image for color scheme.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Matteo66:
Can you show a picture of your balack touch theme?

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NickyBoy:
Yups, just realised that too.

It worked in the v0.7.

I'm using the Dopod838Pro (HTC Tytn).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Hey there Gadget, think you can also include the files without the CAB for those of us who'd liek to use some of your elements (buttons), some colors, etc?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jolas:
tene, could be possible to have index searching in other languages too? (e.g. Greek)

Maybe, if we had the opportunity to set the indexing letters by ourselves in the .ini file?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Try the "use_less_memory=1" setting ;)

seriously, remove background image, reduce picture size, and do not use too much photo for contact. However, it will still use some memory. How many contact do you have? how many of those have picture?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Kelvino9:
Great config gadgetfarmer.

Your settings really fit the touch theme.

Good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I've added a paypal donation option in the first post, or you can use Paypal Donation.

Any donation is of course highly appreciated!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Tene,

It's not very obvious in the main post, you should one of the PayPal buttons images to amke it readily stand out. I would have missed it i fnot fo rthis post.

Regards

Greg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks greg, and thanks for the donation...

I've put an image instead... I'll probably make it more visible for the next release... however, I'll try to spend some time on coding now ;) 0.9 should be coming with some important changes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Favorite Image

Tene,

-How do I stop the favorites image (star) from showing up in the contact and favorites lists?

I assumed that "small_favorite_image" was what did it, so I assigned a 5x5 pixel Fushia image to the setting (small_favorite_image=null.png), the orange star still appears in the contacts in the main list, and in the favorites list.

Regards,

Greg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's probably a bug, can you send me the image, so I can fix it quickly.

Anyway, due to popular demand, I'll add a setting for not showing the image, but I'd like to fix the bug anyway!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Then the switch to turn it off is fine, that'll be better than taking up memory with an image.

I also came across a visual/functional bug.

-In the detailed contact view, if a contact has many phone numbers listed, and you scroll up to see the numbers at the bottom of their phone list, when you view ANOTHER contact with only one phone number, they cannot be viewed as they are scrolled up. The position should be reset anytime you enter a new contact.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Zita:
How can search the contacts on Russian lang???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] scoubi:
So Cool In Jasjar wm6

Thanks Tene, You're near to perfection.

I tested on my Jasjar with 330 contacts and here is my comments.

I - The main screen:

First and last name and below number & Company name= Perfect

[Hope to have middle name like in v 0.6 it's so important in case of similar F&L names.]

-space adequate for finger touch - Scrolling & stopping Ok - Choosing letter from right side is perfect.

[earlier vers. when we choose final alphbet letters like W X Y Z The name belonging to these are top of screen which is more practical I mean that if we choose Z LETTER & you have only one contact the contact belonging to this letter Z come on top and we can see below the contacts starting with A B etc..

II - When choosing a contact:

If there's no a previous photo the name details appears correctly near the space of the blank photo. otherwise part of the name details are merged on photo.

III -Favourites screen:

The space for each name and number below is more smaller than simlar on main screen.

You're Great . Thanks Again For This Big Effort.:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] badwolf:
question. is there a way not to show the "filler face" i have no photos and now i feel that I need them if the blank one is there. is there something to comment out? which pref to use for 6800?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Easy solution, set the picture as an empty one, however it will not show favorite icon correctly. you can also set it as a picture that "look like" your background.

I'll think about it for next version... if it's required by lot of people
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] darkgemini:
OH MAN, this is simply the BEST. I tried iContact and SSContact, but your app RULE ALL.

I tried to use RegEd to config so that i can open ContactManager using the Contacts button in the phone pad, but i had no luck...Tene, do you know of anyway to do this? thank you for your great app
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] M.A.S.:
hehehe... ;)

I have 450 contacts and 50 with photos.

I will try to remove some (and background)...

Tks for your help.

;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
Hi tene,

thank you so much for this application. It is really brilliant and therefor I simply had to donate a little amount to show my appreciation for your good work and still offering this as a freeware.

I still have a question though: would it be possible to add a button for "send an email" in the detailed view? At the moment I have to click on "edit contact" first. Or did I miss anything?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _Pumba_:
Great tool this! would be nice to make a file explorer in this style as well, or a mp3 manager!

A tool to change settings would be great too. I'd like to change font color and background image.

keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
you are the man tene!

downloading and testing....report here later
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] innovaciones:
About 0.9 version

Thanks again for this update, I have already donated some euros for this amazing work.

Humberto.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
ok

first bug found,

when contacts have 4 button, the last is cuted
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Or it simply means you can scroll the button list as you do for the contact list...?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks!

I'll think about it for 0.10
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] macguffin:
No scrolling but if you use the 'touch style buttons' from an earlier post they work fine there only about 25 pixels high.

This app is now a real must have!!!

(email from your fancy pull down menu :) then I'd say it was pretty much perfect.

Cheers

Matt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
mmmhh... maybe I can do something, for now I'm loading all the picture and they stay in memory, I could think about loading the picture only when displyaing the contact. The main problem is that it takes some times and the transition between main page and contact detail would be less smooth.

Anyway, I'm a newbe in PDA/Smartphone, is it really an issue to use 2mb? Does it disable some scenario for you? For me as long as I can listen to mp3 and get/receive phone call, that's fine ;)

Also I'm starting to think about extending the application to deal with SMS also, and provide and nice finger friendly interface for that... that wouldn't change memory consumption that much, and it would allow us to drop another application... well I have to think... ;)

regards,

Quentin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'm not sure I understand, on my Touch, if I have a contact with many phone number, I can scroll the list of phone number (as I do with the list of contact) and show those I want to see. Then I tap on the number to actually call this contact.

Don't you guys get the same behavior?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] macguffin:
gadgetfarmer's touch style version which dosen't have the cropping problem when there are 4 buttons
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
Do you mean extending by using your application instead of pocket outlook or on top of pocket outlook for sms as you already have put this application on top of the built -in contacts UI?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
The skin looks great by the way. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I plan to see what's possible first. But ideally I would use pocket outlook as storage, so that everything still works as before... just a UI that find my fingers.

What do you think?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
Oh yeah, I think this would be amazing!

By the way, what would you think of step by step extending your app in order to replace scrollbar scrolling with fingerscrolling throughout the OS like Touch can do? Possible? So many people are asking for that feature and it seems like you really got the skills to get it working for the ones who don't have a HTC Touch...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's not possible with the code I have made, and I don't have the knowledge to even tell you how to do that.

By the way, on the Touch it doesn't work that great for me, that's why I started developing my own app ;)

Also the prob with making freeware application is that they need to be useful to me (and potentially to lot of other people), and I already have a Touch...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
Ok, good point. Anyway I like your idea to make the unergonomic applications more ergonomic and aesthetic. But don't you like the everywhere-scrolling feature of the touch?

So do you already have an idea how your sms application should look like?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
yes and no, I don't use many application, and it doesn't always work really well, it makes me think about IntelliPoint, the app that came with the first mouse with wheel... it didn't work that well, it made the situation better, but it's only when developers started to integrate the wheel that the wheel became really useful.

I just have the idea of possibly making one... my motivation depends of my free time, feedback/donation I get for this one, etc... the only thing I know today is that will be finger-friendly and present message as conversations.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mistellisch:
So hopefully as many people as possible who like contactmanager show their appreciation and you'll come to the conclusion to continue...

I'm looking forward to further developments of you very much!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willemaw:
Cool!

Some suggestions!

First off, by far the best UI experience for any of the drag driven contact manager.

On your aspirations for creating your own smsing tool. I would like to help/offer some advice, I've been thinking about creating a lightweight sms chat tool for wm6 for a couple weeks, just work has been taking too much of my time..

if so this would be great!!! you could apply the same scrolling logic to moving through the messages as you do with your contacts

Also good luck on implementing the touch cube hooks, that will be interesting.

thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
???

Maybe another thread should be useful, for suggestion on potential SMS tool... and I'll probably look greedy by saying that, but donation are probably the best way to motivate me ;)

By the way, 0.10 is coming this will mostly be a bug fixes release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] willemaw:
sms tool

some ideas on this,

obviously a chat like interface. Textr already does this but it is very heavy weight and slow on 200mhz-273mhz phones. Something lightweight that doesn't offer too many intrusions, does messaging in the background, and uses your contact scroll feature would be killer

this would be better then ichat which has a very annoying 'sending....' message that pops up when sending a txt on the iphone.

awesome work so far!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] the_dipe:
1. DAMN great app. Thanks, man. I really appreciate its performance and configurability.

2. FRQ: Is it possible to include an option to allow single handed control using the scroll wheel or something? For example a highlighting bar that enables me to choose a contact (and call it) without touching the screen. I know your app is not meant to be used like that, but it would make it much more convinient. PLZ!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] trjons:
Haven't read all 31 pages so please excuse me if this has already been addressed.

Great program...however if I use it to send an SMS, I get an error message about an invalid SMS address, should it send anyway.

Saying yes sends with no problems...but I wondered why I got that error.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Martynet:
GREAT APP! really love it! Just one thing: is it possible to sort contact by sure name... not firstname. thanx... and is it possible to skin this app... somebody here made very nice skin here inb cab installer, but with previous version 0.8... can i combine that with latest 0.9?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Synister:
greatest ppc app out there!!! love it to death... love the 0.9 update with animated buttons coming in and back on the task bar...

look out for a donation soon from me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mo7al:
So far the most functional update

I used to have problem with the full screen mode, but now the eliminated the problem

One suggestion which i hope it will made it through version 1.0 is:

- lets make tapping once on the picture brings the full contact info (the edit contact page)

- lets make tap and hold brings the menu where we can change picture, set favorite, new contact...etc

-Lets give the application a distinctive icon
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Benne:
I just tested your tool - and its really great. Like "the_dipe" I would prefere to control the tool by buttons.

For Example:

[0. By pressing the "left" button open the favorites]

1. Scroll direktly through the Letters on the left side by pressing up/down

2. Then press the "right" button and the focus changes to fist entry with the in the first step selected letter.

3. With Up/Down select the contact

4. Press fire

5. Contact opens and the focus is directly on the first entry

6. Press fire to do selected action...

(As you can see there is a minor Bug by showing the adress...)

That would be perfect (for me)

Greets

Benne
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] etasquare:
Will you consider adding incoming caller ID

Hi,

I love this program. I've been using Inesoft address book, mainly because when someone calls, the phone display a large incoming caller id image. Since i start using your program, i deleted Inesoft address book, but i miss the incoming caller id.

Will you consider building something like that?

thanks

Eta
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ericizzy1:
hi

is there a way, that when you goto wm6 dialer and press the contacts tab, this program will show up?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Remap Softkeys

Unzip, and copy the Runsoftkeys.exe to your phone or storage card. Run it once to configure your left/right softkeys. Just assign ContactManager.exe to the right softkey and you're set.

Tene,

Maybe you can put this on your main page so people can easily remap their contact manager to the softkey and not have to keep posting here in the thread.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imstill@g:
I believe he wants to access the contacts form the Dialer.. You just made a phone call, Would like to make another phone call from the dialer... press the contact button in the Dialer
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
I stand corrected...eitehr way, it would be nice to put that file on teh main page for others.

I wonder if there is a registry hack for the Contacts button in the dialer app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] medkid:
May I suggest a background image ?

I found this in another software, I set some values: text_color=230,230,230 and grey_text_color=0,255,255

favorite_background_image_list=fav.png

background_image_list=background.png

background_image_detail=background.png

=> with these images:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Birdwords:
there's nothing better than this!

but there's still something lacking.

first,if i choose one contact and i found that it's not the right one i want,i need to use my thumb to click the left soft key(hard or soft).it made me feel uncomfortable.for this, i recommend to add one feature that i can use my thumb to drag on the left side to back to the main screen.

second, in the main screen,on the right side,there's a quite big space.you can add something like groups or others.

third, in the contact chosen screen, there will be buttons with phone numbers on them.but it's not friendly, i think you can add some icons on them,that makes it directer.

last, please make a cab that i can use it earlier.

thanks a lot.

regards.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
Great improvements!

Did anyone else notice this abnormal happening to the RAM? When I first start Contact Mgr (after soft reset), it show the RAM dropped by 700KB from 26.8 to 26.1MB. Then after I used the Contact Mgr and open the detailed page, and hide the Contact Mgr, the RAM now show 14+MB. :(

Tene, can you include the 'exit' Contact Mgr feature to totally kill the application? I can't find Contact Mgr in the 'Setting', 'Memory', to kill it. :(

Edit: This seems to start from v.0.7 or v.0.8.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tudernos:
Great app!! Now we need to make it a cab to install it!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tudernos:
Once you remap the right soft key for contacts... does it still show up the new contacts when you hit the call button and under contacts on the bottom left?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
No, it doesn't. The contacts left softkey under the dialer brings up the standard Windows Mobile contact list.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neonstorm:
Great app! Paypal on its way...

One suggestion I have right away - the background selection is great, but as mentioned previously it can't be done in the favorite screen. This would really give it more of a 'complete' feel...

Keep up the awesome work!!!

Ryan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Ryan,

If you are using v0.9, you can specify a BG image for the favorites screen.

The settings appears in the .ini file a few lines from the end:

#favorite_background_image_list=background.png
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Myster:
I do not know if this has been requested before ( although i did a quick scroll through this topic )

Is it possible to make this compatible with other locals as well ??

I could not find an option to change codepage in *.ini file and using a keyboard for another local ( eg Greek ) does not work as well

This is the best app i have used and is a must have for use on an HTC Touch

Great work Tene !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Tene,

I see that if you don't have a contact entry for X,YorZ, selecting those letters doesn't move the contact list to the last available contact.

I see that within the index, selecting an empty letter takes you to the next available one *IF* there is one. You look forward towards the end of the alpahbet to find a next available contact...but if you don't find one, the contact list does not move. It's a minor inconvenience I agree...but I just wanted to point it out. :)

Visual Bug: Go to favorites, then go back to "All Contatcs". The left softkey label is now "Back", instead of "Favorites"

Regards,

Greg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sbp:
Hi nice and quick development.

I would like to know how letters after z is used. In Denmark (and all the scandinavian countries) we have more letters in the alphabet than a to z. After z we have three more letters; æ ø and å - will these show up? If not could we somehow add them in the ini file?

Steen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] neonstorm:
Doh! Thanks!!

A small note - the background didn't display until I added my first favorite to the list - it was a plain white background.

Ryan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] telugite:
nice application

keep up good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NxJay:
Error when trying to load version 0.9

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.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ericizzy1:
yes

thats exactly what im looking for. anyone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hma4:
well , it's because you installed your .net framework on your sd card. I got the same error too. you have to install it on your main memory. I know it sucks but thats the way it is.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NxJay:
RamDisk isn't on SD. It's part of the phone memory. But i get what you mean. Damn. That SUCKS! 5mbs of space to install the framework just to use a 500k app.

EDIT: Umm...no...that isn't it. I just installed the CF framework to main memory & i'm still seeing the same error.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gtm55:
Wonderful!

Thank you, Tene!