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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] madbird:
hi again,

im sorry but it seem's that i deleted some text of my post, right bevor hitting the 'send' button, and i didnt review it after sending. this is a good example why one should always review his own post's bevor going to do something else... ;)

i wrote, that i personaly find the naming not that confusing right now, and at least the basename 'icontact' should still be keept in the new name. that makes it easier to find all available versions, when you search for it in the forum or on the net. then at least the all versions have the same base, and who knows wich of them is continued or picked up again in the future.

regards mad
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] v5HMeca:
I hadn't even installed the program before I made my post. I was just snooping through the CAB file before installing to see how the directory structure was set up (since I wanted to auto-install some skins from SDConfig.txt). I happened upon that part of the config file I was looking at and made my reply. I probably shouldn't have been so hasty.

As it turns out, this program is a pain in the ass to install from SDConfig.txt due to its prompt during installation. I'm probably going to repackage it to be more SDConfig-friendly for me, though that's not necessary right now since I don't plan on flashing any time soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deedee:
Agreed it is awkward to install via SDConfig but the trick i found was to create two bits in my SDConfig, one for Auto Install stuff and one for the stuff that prompts, TouchPal being another. I now have an SDConfig that looks like this:

LOCK:Enabled
CAB: \Storage Card\SDConfig\Cabs\AutoRun\SpbMobileShell3.arm.cab
LOCK:Disabled
HIDE:Enabled
CAB: \Storage Card\SDConfig\Cabs\ManualRun\TouchPal.CAB
CAB: \Storage Card\SDConfig\Cabs\ManualRun\iContact.CAB
HIDE:Disabled
LOCK:Enabled
XML: \Storage Card\SDConfig\Sys\CopyFiles.xml
XML: \Storage Card\SDConfig\Sys\S2U.cereg.xml
XML: \Storage Card\SDConfig\Sys\TempCleanup.xml
LOCK:Disabled
RST: Reset

Other progs removed from list for ease of reading

Note the change of Hide/Lock at line 3/4, this enables prompted installs to pop up as necessary. Cannot remember where i found the switch for Auto/manual installs but its a great feature as the recommended method in SDConfigGen is to use MortScript which i could never ge to work for this.

It was initially generated using a tool found on here that generates the SDConfig file for you.

Bnefore anybody asks, it can be found here, SDConfigGen
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alt236:
Like another poster above I've found that there is a delay when using the T9 searching in AE.

When you tap a letter, the program freezes momentarily before the list updates and you can tap another letter in.

The last version of BE did not exhibit this behaviour, so I was wondering if there is a misconfiguration from my part... Otherwise, I'll file a bug report.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] basketerke:
Thanks but it's still stuck after a few seconds ... :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrocosm:
Greek lang support please

Yeah, as the title suggests greek mui.

I can do the translation for you if you provide me with a simple text file or something.

Personaly I don't care but I want this for my father's ipaq. He's fed up already with winmo as a phone platform. Giving him an english contact manager will be over the top :rolleyes:

EDIT: ah nvm I just realized lng files are simple text. I'll do the translation and post it here so you can include it to the cab or if anyone cares just drop it to the lang folder

EDIT2: How can I get the numbers on the SearchAlphabet to display in the little boxes like in the build in alphabet?

EDIT3: Show Dialing Number Type as Su...(?) doesn't have an entry in english.clang (shoud be between line 43-44)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrocosm:
As promished, greek language translation...

Both app and config are translated but not the help in the configuration utility ...and for now I doubt I'll ever do it.

If anyone spots any mistakes let us know
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ummagumma:
Please help - can't run on Axim !

Device: Dell Axim X51v with Lenny's WM6.1

I installed .94 from Supware first. Love the app but really miss the T9 search. I have several hundred contacts and got used to be able to search on anything in "File As" field.

It looks like Avian or BE editions have T9. However, they simply refuse to run - I get something like "Unable to run iContact.exe, either one of components is missing or invalid security certificate".

Any idea what could go wrong here ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] addicus:
I would do a complete uninstall of both icontacts. Then a soft-reset followed by installing Avian than softresetting again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ummagumma:
Thanks, but this didn't work either.

This seems to be a common enough problem, though. Just no solution that I know of...

To people familiar with both versions - is speed comparable between the two ? The Supware version (the only one I can use at this point) is very fast and responsive.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Could it have something todo with .NET 3.5?

I am not sure whether the main program iContact.exe is requesting .NET 3.5, but I remember that burt´s edition was requesting .NET 3.5 for the configuration program.

Best regards,

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Admittedly, I (like Burt before) focus more on features, ease of use, "prettiness" and so forth, with less of a focus on performance. I haven't used supware's version in a long time, but I do follow his updates to see what he adds. It seems he does focus a lot more on performance. It would, therefore, not surprise me if supware's was faster than avian. Of course, if anybody wants to incorporate supware's speed optimizations into avian, they can look at his source code and edit the avian files on codeplex (just PM me for info). Both projects are open source, and that's the advantage of open source. :-)

Despite both being derived from the original icontact from years back, there are significant differences, so it's not an easy thing to take code from one into the other. this is why i dont bother. avian is "fast enough" for me, and honestly i think it's pretty darn fast, actually! i dont have hundreds of contacts though.

also of note is that features like the pictures in the contact list will always consume more CPU (but, honestly, not a lot) than without, so supware's will always be a little faster even if avian becomes more optimized, all other things being equal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
The CF is only used for the configuration program. The main icontact.exe is all native code.

I don't know what would cause this issue... I've seen it before on an older phone and a hard reset fixed it, but that's kind of a crappy resolution. lol.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Hallo

how is it going?

Maybe you can drop a short note.

Many thanks

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lordk1:
i've 190 contacts... and the speed is greath.... ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I'm still working on it. It's about feature complete, I just have to add configuration options for contributed code and it should be ready. Hopefully by the end of this week.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Many thanks for the update :)

I fully understand that iContact is not your "bread and butter" job and that you do it in your spare time.

Best regards

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Thank you very much for 7.06!

Thank you very much for 7.06!

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
7.0.6 Released

Oops, I forgot to add a post to the end announcing 7.0.6 so those following the thread get the update. Thanks for doing that for me. :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
EnablePhoneKeyHook on Xperia X1

Hi,

- New setting: EnablePhoneKeyHook = Enables hardware phone key support above (enabled by default) <-- Anybody who can add this to the help for other language files (non-english), please PM me the new .clng file.

A quick question:

If this setting is off, is there than any interfearance from iContact with the Keys?

The background of this question is that I have for example trouble using AEButton Plus on my Xperia X1: If this program is running I have a significant higher battery drainage.

Without this program everything is fine (and I love AE Button and had no problems at all on my Kaiser)

After installing 7.06 yesterday I realized that my battery was going down much faster than before

The default setting is the key hook is on so I switched it off and will see how it goes.

To make settings to the keys I am using X1BC 1.1 and this is working fine - no battery problems

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=468007

Best regards,

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Your problem is likely coincidence with the version upgrade. Leaving that setting enabled is the same behavior as 7.0.5 and all earlier versions. I put that setting in so I could specifically use AEBP to remap my green/red phone buttons without iContact overriding their behavior when it was open.

Just FYI, iContact's green/red button capturing is not a global hook, it's a local hook, so it only works when iContact's main windows is activated, so it's actually a bit different of a process compared to AEBP.

Button capturing (global or local) is not an active CPU consuming process. What i mean is that it's a hook you set with the WM API, then the entire process goes on doing its normal thing (usually sleeping) until messages come in to WndProc when the button is pressed. There is absolutely no polling or timers or anything that would consume CPU at any set interval or prevent the device from going to sleep as normal. If you are experiencing battery drain, I'd recommend looking at other processes that may more likely use some form of polling, CPU processing, open internet connections/downloads, or in some other way prevent the device from transitioning out of unattended mode into sleep mode when turned off.

All that said, it may still be iContact's fault, and I encourage you to keep testing to make sure, but it wouldn't be as a result of that setting. (Although admittedly I'm a little bit skeptical as I have not seen any sign of battery drain and I keep iContact open all the time.) Maybe icontact just doesn't play well with the panels on the X1 in general?

Thanks for testing!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] quicksite:
I agree completely. For me, looking at speed in a microcosm is ridiculous and foolhardy. It's the sum total of what performance you have on your device, in relation to the apps you like to use, and the productivity and satisfaction you gain from using them. This obsession with "the fastest" is really missing the boat.

And for me, and I suspect many people, pictures are not just decoration or eye candy. For me they are essential for rapid identification of the party I want to call. Especially if I am in conversation with someone or otherwise partially distracted and glance down to find the number to call. Many people, like me, are must faster visual processors than text-based processors of lists of information.

Personally, I think that going forward, with all the advances yet to come in these phone devices and operating systems, anyone WITHOUT a picture-list contact application is going to be on the fringe of mainstream adoption.

I totally find it cool that supbro is focused on speed, GIVEN how slow some of the phones are, such as my T-Mobile wing, with its old processor and minimal RAM... That is, for some, part of the overall value equation. But I found it odd that he insisted he would NEVER offer a picture-list version, because these 2 branches of iContact are only going to further and further separate... And again, going forward, with app stores opening for WindowsMobile platform, as the speed differences between supbro's and this branch become more and more negligible, when giuven the choice I believe more and more people will opt in for pictures on lists, or at least the OPTION to set that preference.

That's why I am behind this branch -- and renew my "call" to distinctively name this version with a name that reflects its differentiation, vs calling it "Avian Edition" -- but I say that with no disrespect to thx1200... I am really grateful that thx1200 is picking up where Burt left off. I just think it would be better for EVERYONE -- supbro's branch base, and burt's branch base, and all new people yet to discover these apps, to have separate names so that the question stops even coming up: "Wait a minute, is that from supbro's version, or burt's version, or Avian version?? there are too many versions all named the same thing)

I will repeat my 2 suggestions from before:

iContact Pix -- to denote it's the picture-list app. or

iContax -- to make the name uniquely different yet communicate that it's the pix version.

fwiw ... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Many thanks for the feedback and explanation!

I do not think that this problem is coming from iContact or AEBP by purpose. It is just a combination of some effects and therefore very hard to trace.

Sometimes I have the feeling that it is making a difference if I boot the device serval times (and getting the startup of programs and drivers in a different order?) and have a different effect with the battery.

Looking to the task manager has brought so far no real hint.

I also suspect that it has something to do something with the panel manager.

In the next 1 or 2 weeks I want to switch from WM6.1 to to WM6.5 and the new panel Manager, maybe it is making than a difference (I will retry AEBP).

At the moment everything is working fine again, I switched off that feature and rebooted 2-3 times.

I am aware that this is not a scientific description it sounds more like Voodoo.

Best regards,

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tom47:
Ringtone

Hi, although my Hermes accepts .wav files as ringtone in general, I cannot assign such a file to a contact as they are not even shown in the “Select a ringtone” screen. Does anyone know, how to manage this?

Thanks, Tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shark147:
Hi at all...

Greats Applications...

but i have a little problem with SHOW Contact SIM, the iContact AE it's freeze, how to fix this?

Thanks in Advanced
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
Since the update from 7.0.5 to 7.0.6 I have this bug that appeared.

From time to time IContact 7.0.6 refuses to be my default contact manager.

I did not encounter this problem with 7.0.5.

Does anybody face the same issue?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I'm not exactly sure. I didn't develop that code, but I'll look into it. Please file on codeplex...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
It looks like the installer had a couple bugs. I just uploaded an updated version of 7.0.6 to codeplex. The fixes are as follows...

- The detection logic for registering as default contacts was broken due to some changes I made.

- The idialer registry entries had a typo which would make it not work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Problem with USSD-Codes?

Hello :-)

Some days ago I discovered iContact, iContact BE and iContact AE and decided to have a try with iContact AE.

It seems that USSD-Codes (unstructured supplementary service data, for example *100#) do not work if dialed with iContact AE; there's only an error message ("Rufnummer ungültig" -> "invalid calling number").

Using the default contact manager (Pocket Outlook) everything works fine.

Does anybody have the same problem or knows how to solve it?

Apart from that: Great application!

Best regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
When I ask IContact AE to display my SIM contacts, the app freezes.:(

Does anybody face the same problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I didn't write the integrated USSD dialing, so that's a great question for the contributor. However, if you go into the settings and disable the integrated USSD Support, the USSD numbers will be sent via the classic dialer, and that might work for your purposes. Give it a try!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I don't have SIM contacts... In fact, with Sprint you have no "SIM card" persay and no way to store SIM contacts, so I have no way to test. If anybody else provides more info, I can try to code around the problem, but chances are slim unless another contributor on a GSM network with SIM card contacts can work on this. :-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

thank you very much for you reply.

I didn't use the config-tool but only edited the enclosed ini-file, where I didn't find a referring entry.

Disabling USSD with the config-tool everything works fine :-)

Thank you for your help and best regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
thx1200,

Thank you for your answer.

Hope someone will help.

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
It's worth nothing for anybody else reading this thread that iContact AE does not require an INI file to contain anything if you use the default settings on everything. Entries are only added to the INI file after running the configurator and changing settings. This is by design, so that settings can be preserved between version upgrades and it doesn't matter that new settings are missing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

I'm sorry, but I've one more question.

A I noticed now, only one thing works (switching USSD between enabled and disabled):

If USSD works, nomal numbers do not work, and if normal numbers work, USSD does not.

Do you have any idea, what I might have done wrong?

Best regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that when you disable USSD, then USSD works (via standard dialer) but regular numbers do not? And then enableding USSD has the opposite effect?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

Im sorry, I didn't express clearly.

If I set the marker "Enable USSD Star Dialing" then USSD-Codes work, but normal telephone numbers don't. There's only a message "Sitzung beendet" -> "session finished".

If I uncheck "Enable USSD Star Dialing" then normal telephone numbers work but USSD-Codes don't. There's the message "Rufnummer ungültig" -> "invalid calling number".

Thank you for your help and best regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I understand now. Do your normal dialing numbers begin with a star (*)? iContact detects USSD by looking for the beginning being a star.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

I tried out the following:

uncheck marker "Enable USSD Star Dialing"

USSD like "*100#" doesn't work

number with "*" at the beginning (like "*31# +49...") works

normal number (like "+49...") works

check marker "Enable USSD Star Dialing"

USSD like "*100#" works

number with "*" at the beginning (like "*31# +49...") doesn't work

normal number (like "+49...") works

Do you know if there's a possibility to get all of it to work?

Best regards :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poulaki:
I have problem with the deinstallation icontact . Do not function the contacts of telephone.Send Fοτο with the message that is presented in the screen I have HTC HD .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I see the problem. Any "normal" number that starts with * will not work with USSD enabled, since that's how it knows that the number you are dialing is, in fact, USSD. I'm also guessing that different networks have different levels of support for USSD. For example, I know that some networks the classic dialer can dial any USSD number, just it's not done in the background, like how iContact handles it.

How about this. Try preceding "normal" numbers that start with a * with another character. I think the hyphen should work well because the dialer will ignore it and it will cause iContact to not think it's a USSD number.

So you would do this.

check marker "Enable USSD Star Dialing"

number with "*" at the beginning, do this: -*31# +49...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

thank you very much for your reply.

In the meantime I had a similar idea. I tried out to enable USSD Star Dialing and put a blank character at the beginning of a 'normal' number that starts with a "*". It seems to work :-)

Before changing the affected numbers I was awaiting if there was another solution. Now I'm going to edit those numbers.

Best regards :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NLS:
thx when do you plan to integrate movement sensor abilities on the program? (as you know the code is already available...)

it's been months I've been waiting for it - too hard? low priority? forgot about it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmckeejr:
I have tried thelatest version on custom Windows 6.5 ROM(see signature). I have some grapical errors in call history. On far right where call time is I think it is messed up(hard to explain) and also all call history icons except "all" are distorted. :confused: Here, let me show you a screenshot. Do you have any ideas or suggestions about this? Anyone else have this issue?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Did not forget. It's honestly low priority. Doing a diff on code to integrate a feature is never fun. (At least for me hehe).

It will appear probably in the next version, whenever I have time to start working on that again... couple weeks maybe... Maybe a month or so before the release.

Feel free to integrate the code yourself (all my code is on the codeplex site) and then it'll be easier for me to just drop the updated files into the project.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I'm also running a 6.5 ROM (MightyRom 5) and do not have this issue, so I do not think it's related to 6.5 persay. It might be something related to your ROM in particular -- maybe some sort of custom graphics driver causing an issue?

I haven't changed any underlying graphics code (insofar as how iContact draws to the screen), so it's likely this problem would persist with other i* apps that use the common codebase.

You might want to try changing some of the performance features in the config like transparency settings, list caching, etc.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] piet8stevens:
Put iContact AE on my TP2 and it looks fantastic. Thanks a lot!

Suggestion: a lot of blank space between contacts and fairly large fonts for my WVGA device. Any way to get more on 1 page?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Every aspect of the display is entirely controlled in the skin you select -- this includes the height of each list entry, the font size, etc. You can try selecting a QVGA skin, but it will be really tiny (probably too small). If you make one inbetween, it might be a neat contribution here.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] piet8stevens:
Aha. In my download, I only have VGA skins. Where do I find a QVGA one? Then I will give it a try.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] addicus:
I would say redownload the app, uninstall the previous, soft reset, then reinstall the new downloaded app. A pop up during installation ask if you want QVGA or VGA. choose QVGA and everything should be fine.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] piet8stevens:
Skin for WVGA

I have created a Lycox_DiamondBlackWVGA.skn by modifying the existing VGA version (changed font sizes, button sizes etc...). When I use that, the fonts are changed more or less the way I want, but the graphics do not fit any more. I have not changed the Lycox_DiamondBlackVGA.png (I just copied it to Lycox_DiamondBlackWVGA.png).

Can anyone refer me to where I can find what the relationship is between the button sizes... and the .skn?

See modified .skn attached in next message.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] piet8stevens:
Skin for WVGA

See this attachment which I missed on my previous message.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] piet8stevens:
Updated WVGA skin

I fixed the buttons sizes etc... so that the .skn is now again compatible with the .png.

Now, the text sizes are smaller, but I do not get more items on one page. I hope to achieve that but need to find which parameter influences that.