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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sadlybrokeboy:
Tene,

Just downloaded .07 and tried installing the cab file - both with 0.6 installed and with it uninstalled - and .07 doesn't work either way!

Can't find any icons and the shortcuts for contacts don't seem to work - all seems a bit buggered to me! :(

I get the message "The file PocketCM cannot be opened. Either it's not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the Problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file.". I've got Black Satin, installed with what I thought to be all SDK certs. etc. installed - so I'm a little puzzled!!

Help!

Matt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CreativeBR:
Sorry for the nooby question... 8}

I have CM0.9 installed on my HTC Touch by the CAB file (replaced the default contacts app) without any particular problem.

To install the new PocketCM 0.7 do i need to unstall the CM0.9 before or just install the new one over the older (by the CAB file)?

Is the softbuttons will be fixed auto?

{}s

CreativeBR
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marshall07:
Thank you.

However I noticed a minor bug in the Contact Manager:

If I colose the program and re-open it, I'll have 3 contacts as Favorites even if I never added them and even if I manually remove them from Favorites, they'll be again there when I re-open the program.

Another thing I noticed is that the installer doesn't update the registry value ":MSCONTACTS". I had to manually edit it.

Marshall
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Cab should be fixed.

For favorite it seems like a bug, I'll look into it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Marshall07:
Thank you very much tene.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] johnnyv5:
No Special characters in any way. The only thing that may be holding it up is the default area code is wrong, but I can't change it. What exe is used for the default contact program? I need to change it in there unless there is a way to do it withing pocketcm....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
i have the same problem here. but on my device there are more than 3 unremoveable favorites.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
It's a known issue... will be fixed soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sadlybrokeboy:
Tene,

Thanks - the cab is indeed fixed and I have contact manager again! :D

One thing I noticed - I had about 6 favourites - when I upgraded ALL my contacts became favourites!! It's a small pain - but it's all sorted now for myself - don't know if anyone else has had the problem....

Anyway, THANK YOU for your efforts tene - it's an excellent app - and some of the skins appearing in the skins forum of your site are spot on too! :D

Keep up the good work!

Matt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] heikow:
Same for me.

But the program is great.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
Ditto, but in my case a truckload -- around 40 ;)

My loading time has risen to 90 s with this version. That's not encouraging, and I seem to be the only one with this problem... :confused:

However, the 'Hide' button hides again, so it's limited to first time startup now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mi|enko:
Check the site. You can make your own settings.ini
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
v0.7b published, should fix bug with favorites.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sadlybrokeboy:
Tene,

Thank you - all is working!!

Cheers!!

Matt
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
@tene

thank you,

but the lang.de.ini does not work.

and pocketcm hide not complete:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] friguy33:
i love this app...thank you so much for all the work....but...there are times when i need another address, like the business address instead and now it seems this new release wont let me jump to the entire contact page. some people also have multiple numbers, ie, work2 number, and i cant get to them.

and sadly, as much as i appreciate the sms app, how long till i dont have to use that? as you probably know, having problems now where my sms's dont pop up anymore.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mo7al:
Found this bug on version 0.7b:

When I select a contact, and once I'm at that contact page and when I use the directional pad (right, left, up or down) the program will completely close

I would like to have a use for the directional pad once you are at a contact page, in this order for example:

-up and down to move from one number to the other (home, work, email, etc)

-left to go Back to the contacts list (same function as the Back softkey)

-right to go to View Contact... page (this is very practical for contacts with multiple phone #s)

I am using it on HTC Trinity WM6 bepe ROM

Excellent program by the way and its just getting better and better and better
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mi|enko:
What if you go into a contact, tap their name, and then view contact?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mo7al:
This is why it would be nice to get the same effect "view contact..." using the directional pad (Right for example)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] friguy33:
i dont think i ever clicked their name exactly, i had clicked edit before, but truthfully dont want to install it again to see if its working till i can turn off the sms app...once that is available...ill try again...thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] youser:
100% ACK, that would be great.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Agree except for the last option.... view contact sucks, and pocketcm already shows all phone number, no?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dracula77:
Feedback Button

I just made a semi transparent feedback button to replace the existing in the theme.cmt

Just to share with you guys.

PS: Unzip the file feedback2.zip, copy the file and just replace your existing ones. Remember to always back up before overwrite.

For those whom still do not know how to change your buttons in your theme folder, proceed to PocketCM Phorum
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ixtana_ran:
Downloaded last night for keyboard, just getting used to it, really is the best input method tried so far, thank you.

Also downloaded PocketCM, WOW blown away by it, eye candy and functional.

Couple of Questions:- when writing a sms and sending it doesn't actually send till you open up native sms/mms folder?

And could we have the option to turn off sms threading to clear up some screen real estate.

I found a PocketCM thread, sorry if cross posting.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mo7al:
Well, first of all your program is amazing... second of all and after all you are the boss...

But my opinion is:

1- View contact is important in situations where the contact has multiple numbers as mentioned previously (home1, home2, work1, work2, fax, etc)

2- Also sometimes there are Notes attached to some contacts and needs to be accessed easily....

Another suggestion to access the view contact instead on the Right directional pad can be like this:

- at the contact page, clicking on the contact picture will access "View Contact..."

- at the contact page, clicking on the area next to the picture will access the drop-down menu for the edit, add picture, add favorite...etc

I also suggest adding "Delete Contact" at the drop-down menu

Sorry for being so greedy
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
What is the recommended way to use a settings.ini file? Should we copy the one out of the cmt and edit it? It seems to be missing some of the options like ...

contact_sort_expression=%fileas

contact_secondline_formatting=%company

contact_detail_formatting=%homeaddressstreet\n%homeaddresscity, %homeaddressstate %homeaddresspostalcode

With 7b I thought I'd copy the settings file to see what new options there were, but now I have a different theme and no pictures.

???

Tene, when you have a few minutes to spare ;)... can you go through the settings file and orgaize the options by screen? This would make it easier to figure out which settings are for which screen.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fiskesuppe:
vibrate on hover

moved to right thread.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Just to be sure, sorry if I'm talking about something you already know:

in the contact detail page, all number (except fax) are present, press your finger on a number, move it up, release the finger, the list "slide" (as does contact in contact list, favorite, or suggestion in pocketcm keyboard). So you have all your numbers.

For notes, I'd like to add a note button, tap on it, the screen flip (as for SMS) and show the note, tap it again, you're back to contact...

Maybe it won't be the perfect solution for you, but that's something I'd like to try, I'm trying to find better idea of doing things, not simply using what people have and are already complaining about. That doesn't mean I can't fallback to default, as I did with the view button... but I don't like it. I think it's more interresting to discuss and enrich a real solution, a least for a while, than rushing on making it just a little bit better... and missing an inovative solution.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
create a new blank one with only the setting you need. That's definitely the best choice.

The idea is: put your setting in your file, let the theme do the rest.

The priority of settings is as follow:

- theme

- lang.ini

- settings.ini

This way, if you make a specific index with letter than you want (for instance, there's nobody with Z letter, you remove it from the index), you can be sure it will be used, even if the theme plays with letter, or the lang.ini comes with another alphabet.

It also allows quick an easy modification/patching of theme. You find a beautiful theme, but don't like the height of contact, just add one line in one file, you're okay, next versino of the theme is there, just replace your theme.cmt, and it's okay, no need to wonder about what's changed, unzip, copy settings or stuff like that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cirial:
This is awesome, thanks :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raymondu999:
Request: Bring back the letter bar on the right side of the screen
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kalavera:
Great great great! Thank you for this program!

Some suggestions (or minor quirks):

- smoother use of directional pad in the contacts list (now each press is 1 page down ... maybe a smoother scroll, like when we use the thumb, increasing speed if we keep pressing)

- a way to change the default number showed on the contact list (for example: having a priority list 1-mobile 2-work, etc)

- i saw that in iphone contact list they use the right movement over a selected contact to quickly dial ... cant this be used, instead of entering the contact detail dialog? (here the default number point is important)

- add a small graphic on the contact dialog, to help novices know that a popup menu opens when you click that area (maybe a small down-arrow with a label "options")

- maybe instead of mobile and sms option, maybe just the numbers, and then a popup asking what to do with each number. (I have contacts with many mobile numbers where i can send sms to them, and i store them in work, etc). also here a fast call feature using the right movement over the number would be great, or appearing a small call icon popup (right - call, left - send sms) like in your new pocket keyboard (applying on release)

- in the contact detail, using a right-to-left movement to go back to contacts.

- i also agree with adding extra functions to the directional pad, for example in the contact list, using the right and left directional pad to choose the current number to quick call (continuing with my idea expressed in the beginning).

I know many are just wishes ... but ... since you already have done so many great things ... why not ;)

Keep the good work!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lampllight:
I seem to be experiencing the same thing. I use an o2 atom exec.

Other than that the application ROCKS! GOOD WORK! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
Cool, thanks! Is there a way to see the complete list of settings?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] johnnyv5:
Still can't dial from contact. Even if I create a new contact. I need to see if I change the default area code if it'll work, but there is no way to do it within this app. What is the default contacts program? Does anyone know what the executable is?

thanks,

jv
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
I LOVE this ideia!

is terrible when you have a lot of number in the same contact to scroll the list.

because if you release the button when you scroll you will call to the wrong number.

The other ideia are good too!!

let see what is possible to do!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agovinoveritas:
Playing with .7b and report no bugs.

This has become one of my favourite apps. Not only because I use it on a daily basis but because it is so dumb-simple and it does everything with a real touch of class. Really, this is the "sliced bread" of contact apps. Bravo.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mo7al:
I didn't notice that, my mistake sorry... It's working great

You are more innovative than me for sure... I didn't think about this solution, but it sure sounds great
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
please don't ignore

@tene

thank you,

but the lang.de.ini does not work.

and pocketcm hide not complete:

must i rename the lang.de.ini to lang.ini?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?6,342

by design, this app is now a correct citizen, before it was hiding too much. Isn't there an option in your soft to hide anyway?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
Name of the shortcut in the Start Menu is 'Shortcut to Primary Output from NativeContactManager (Active).Ink'

Is this right for 0.7b? I think before it was just 'Pocket CM'...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
you can have wisbar "ignore" the program...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
@tene

i use wisbar advanced and use in Task management options "PocketCM (Ignore)" and the icon in Taskbar is away.

and i rename lang.de.ini to lang.ini and i have pocketcm in German

VERY THX you are the best Developer the app is the best.

Before and After the Memory :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackleung:
Hi Tene,

I just made a small donation to express thank you for yr programs (both Pocket CM and PCM keyboard).

For Pocket CM, can you add some T9 support for phone that has a number pad instead of keyboard? (e.g. "1" scroll to "a", "11" scroll to "b", "111" scroll to "c", .. "9" scroll to "w")

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Would you mind making a blue or gray version of this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Is there anyway to speed up the reading of the contacts after PocketCM is loaded?

It takes only 4 seconds to load the app, but than it takes so much longer for it to read all my contacts. 4 seconds after loading the app, I am only able to look at contacts up to C.

I have tried to disable the "Show contact pictures", but this does not help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] andason:
Works great on the ppc 6800 (sprint mogul) very stable and reliable.

- Loads in about 2-3 seconds and pulls in contacts in about 2 seconds.

- sms chat is awesome, sms messages take a little bit of time to refresh

I actually just noticed that the chats were scrollable as well : ) so i thought some were missing entirely.

- keyboard takes some getting use to with the keys shifted to the right on the third row

- it would be kewl if the user could change the position of the index letters (left or right side of screen)

- animations are very nice and fluid

- scrolling feels great. it appears the scrolling has a "memory". if you reach the top or bottom of the contacts and give just a little too much scroll with the finger or spin with the wheel it will be locked in position until it catches up. does this make sense?

... just tested it again.. maybe the problem isn't there with the finger used as scrolling. but if i use the wheel on my phone too much it will keep it locked until it catches up with me.

Keep up the great work! PocketCM is my standard contact app.

My apologies, I just noticed you have updated since my last install. The above was actually for version .6, but most seems to apply to .7b except for the keyboard. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Dracula77:
I have attached a few more colors for you.

Enjoy! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
Can you be more precise, and tell us your device, OS, and any relevant applications that you run? An easy way to time the loading of all contacts is to make your very last contact a favourite. Then, while loading, switch to the favourites view and time how long it takes until that last one appears.

I have the same problem, it takes me 90 s for all my 550 contacts to load. (see my earlier post)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
What's the size of your pim.vol?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Thanks.

That's unlikely to happen soon, I don't know how to deal with such keyboard. And I don't have such device. If a developer know what kind of messages is sent for those keys, and if there's a way to do the mapping?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
Tene, i think he means like a classic text style keypad, where there are multiple letters per number.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
that's what I understood too... but from a developer point of view, how is it managed by the OS?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] red.schumi:
hi tene,

very cool app!!!

i have a third-party sms app. Look here

ist there a way to call this 3rd-party sms app

when i press the sms button in pocketCM?

that would be really cool:-)))

many thanks to you

red.schumi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gogol:
tene,

What I meant with drop shadow is underneath the "menu" (to create new contact, etc.).

I attached a "mock up".

Because I think this drop shadow option will add more beauty to the look and feel.

Of course, this is not important (we can live without it), but it looks weird without it while the other part of the theme use drop shadow.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bangsat:
I installed this on my exec Windows 05. it looks screwed up seriously
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
It's 1.9 MB.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wonder12:
Help. The app get stuck on loading contact. Any idea how to solve it? My contacts are saved to SIM.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Only outlook contact are supported. So you'll need either to..not use the app, or migrate your contact from SIM to outlook. It also has lot of advantage, like outlook synchronization, more info on contacts, etc...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'm afraid it's gonna be difficult, alphablending (partial transparency) is rather slow on Windows Mobile, it would me the animation laggy.

What you can do however, is set an image that contains the shadow, it won't be transparent however.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Fracoon:
A bug....

Hi tene....

i think i have found a bug in your very nice app (i really love it)

If i send a SMS with PocketCM it is not send emediatly... i have to open POutlook to send it...

AND

If the message is sent i see only the Phonenumber in the "Sent Items" folder. If i send a message over POutlook i see the Contact name there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
Thanks for your tip. No more 30 cents for international sms-es!! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iggy:
Delete Contact

First Excellent program, amazingly fast on my Apache (6700).

Second, regarding the above request, I would like to see that as well.

Only problem I have is I cannot delete contacts, when clicking on view contact the screen comes up but is blank all other functions work perfectly (any ideas).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'm just wondering: how often do you delete contact? it almost never happen to me, and most of the time, I prefer to do the contact management part on my pc. I'm probably missing something here.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lampllight:
Chat bubble (history)

Hmmm for some unknown reason the chat bubbles that display all past sent and incoming SMSs doesn't display any of the SMSs in the inbox.

The Sent box displays fine. Anyone know why this may be?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iggy:
Thanks for the quick reply tene, unfortunately quite often, and I don't really use Outlook on my PC just my PPC and PimBackup to save to SD Card.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RRibeiro:
Don't work on Qtek 9000

Hello all,

This program don't work on my Qtek 9000 (exec, Universal). Since version 06 that when the app loads all the contacts, the screen becomes all corrupted the messed up and the app works nice, but I can't read nothing because the graphics are all messed up.

In the first version this didn't happend.

Please, can you fix this, because I love you app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mountain King:
Same device and same problem here.

Can not wait for this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Can you send a screenshot.

And try to reinstall (delete yourself the exe, all the file in the folder, and reinstall). It look to me like you're using new theme with old exe.

br,

Quentin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RRibeiro:
I will try to get a screenshot to put here.

I deleted the old version files and folder and installed the cad version of this new release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RRibeiro:
Working now :)

Finally it's working great now.

I just downloaded the VGA theme from the Tene homepage and replaced for the one that comes in the pack, and now it's working great.

Tene, you must warn people that your package is for QVGA and to work in VGA devices we must replace the theme for a VGA one.

Great program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bangsat:
hey. you had the same problem I had. how do you fix it ? are you on Windows 05 ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jackleung:
I guess you don't need any special treatment for the number pad since PocketCM should get the numeric character like the normal keyboard. But just algorithm is needed to map 2 as "abc", 3 as "def" ...etc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
The prob is you guess, I guess too... but for development and debugging, I need to be able to simulate. Anyone has an old device to give away? :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
Where is the mail ?

Hi guys.

I can't find the 'mail'-option in pocketcm. Am i just too stupid ?? Or can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong ? :confused:

Cheers, Peter
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] srt10coupe:
Release: feedback button

-make a copy of theme.cmt

-rename theme.cmt = theme.zip

-open theme.zip

-rename the new feedback button over, with the name of the old feedback button.

-overrite the old with the new

-and rename theme.zip = theme.cmt

-copy theme.cmt in the app dir.

Screenshot

If someone is (are) interested in the complete Skin.

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