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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] voyd:
hi,

i really love iContact AE ^^ god job

For how want VGA skin (work for HD too) you can look here => icae Black Voyd

V.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Default, White, and OS/X Colored are all QVGA skins.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
No need -- all the skins are available in the config program, no matter what you choose as your default during installation.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
I've been meaning to migrate all this great info to another website in case truburt ever pulls his site down (any volunteers? - a wiki would be great!), but until then, all of Burt Edition's instructions remain valid for Avian Edition. The only difference are the new "small icons" at the bottom of the graphics files in the skin. It's pretty self explanatory when you look at how the rest of the skin works.

http://truburt.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=12
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
That is really nice. I'm linking to it in the top post.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] voyd:
thank you, it's a pleasure ;)

V.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aiiro:
This is possibly a bug with iContact AE. I have reported it also on Your CodePlex site.

When I use iContact AE with iDialer and configure iDialer to be opened when the dialer button is pressed, it opens iDialer but the SIP icon is visible (not the whole softkey bar, just the SIP icon). That does not happen if I start iDialer separately / in stand-alone mode. The behaviour only occurs if iDialer is configured to display system taskbar, e.g. if it's in fullscreen mode, everything is OK.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tarmpung:
I've just tested icontact with final release. I realize that I can't make a call which its numbers is started with * (for example: *101#, *1000#...) for checking balance or refill my account...while I can still do that with default contact + dialer.Another problem is about "show sim contact",it may not be working.

Test again: work fine with *101#..., but still got problem with sim contact...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
That's more easily handled by iDialer since it is the active app when it is happening. I never show the SIP -- in fact, I hide it in iContact. Please report it to the developer. There is a similar problem with certain apps when switching into iContact (notably, PocketPlayer causes this with many apps) and I fix it with the following lines of code.

SipShowIM(SIPF_OFF);

ShowWindow(FindWindow(L"MS_SIPBUTTON", NULL), SW_HIDE);
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Disable USSD support in the options. There's a known bug in the way it handles certain *-codes when enabled. If you have it disabled, it defers USSD dialing to the dialer app instead of attempting to handle it in the background. In the next version, this will be fixed -- hopefully. :-D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aiiro:
OK, thanks for a quick reply. I did write about the same thing first in iDialer thread but then I thought that when iDialer is executed on it's own, it doesn't show SIP icon, so maybe it has something to do with the way or method the dialer is called from Your app?

And while I'm here, what is "dialer app arguments" for in settings? I never figured that out :)

Oh, and while I'm still here, thought I'd ask that too - would it be thinkable to integrate iDialer fully like it shows the bottom buttons etc?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
1. It depends on how the app is executed and what has focus before and whether the SIP is deployed and whether the SIP icon is present, etc... it's really stupidly messy. The best way to fix it is in the app that doesn't want the sip icon.

2. I don't know, I didn't develope that part (before me) but I'd guess it's if you want to pass some optional command line arguments to the dialer app.

3. Not likely -- not everybody uses iDialer. I use the HTC dialer right now and don't want to go to another one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

it's me once again ;-)

Sorry, but now I found out, that it doesn't work, neither with "-" nor " ". This just works, when I call my own number. In this case I get a busy tone.

If I call any other number there's no system-message, but the phonecall is just terminated.

Do you have any idea, what I could do?

Best regards and thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aiiro:
1. OK, perfectly understandable.

2. OK, I'll do some more searching regarding Burt's edition.

3. OK, fair enough.

Thanks for quick replies :) Almost all other threads like this take a really long time to get an answer, so I appreciate it.

GL.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Even if you disable USSD dialing in the options?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
No problem, dude! :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] supbro:
Thanks. Odd that iContact doesn't cause it but iContactAE does...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Greeting, supbro!

That is odd. I wonder if it's because I specifically added the "hide" code to compensate for PocketPlayer (and other apps that force the SIP icon) and maybe it sort of passes this on to other apps? Not sure! If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dragg5inbody:
im sorry,did i miss the screen shot of this app?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BlackRocks:
Hello thx1200,

if I disable USSD Star Dialing it's like mentioned above

USSD like "*100#" doesn't work

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

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

At the moment I use iContact AE this way. If I want to use USSD like "*100#", I start PocketOutlook instead.

Best regards and many thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tfm426:
ok here is an idea i am using wm 6.5 and like the transparent icons i have been haveing a go as skining and wonderd would it possable to make the whole thing transparrent so you can see your home screan picture as the background then what ever phone you used it on it would look seamless as will always have the same background picture as your home page and start menu. anyone any ideas if this can be done or how to go about it? i dont mind making a skin if someone helps on how to make it show like this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
There is no way in the WM API to set an application to have a transparent window. The only way this is done in other apps is by taking snapshot of whatever they are overlaying, which is CPU intensive and not realtime.

To get the effect you want, you would need to set a background for iContact, which is not possible at this moment. I doubt I'll ever add it as it would be a lot of work for very little return. Sorry :-(

Feel free to add to my code... It's all on CodePlex...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tfm426:
Thanks for the reply at least i can stop trying now. shame its not an easy thing to set a picture as the background as i think it would look good. Stll love this program i think its the best contact program i have tried and it work a dream on wm 6.5. I am not experianced enough to think about trying to change anything in the program skining is about my limit :( Kepp up the good work .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] scicchi:
Getting rid of T9

First of all, thank you for your great work.

:confused: Am I the only one who can't disable T9 when I search a contact? My device is a Diamond with an original Italian ROM (2.03.408.3) and latest beta 7.0.6. Of course I unchecked "Use T9 as Default Search" in the Interface tab and I have already tried both options for "English as Primary T9 keyboard".

Thanks in advance for your support.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sonynakata:
I use iContact Avian Edition 7.0.6.but it does not show assistant's phone number.why?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] KGET:
temporarily disble icontact

I need to disable icontact so I can set up AT contacts in titanium 6.5. Is there a way to do this?:confused: I think when I go to set up my Favs icontacts is causing an error because it is not the default contacts program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zelendel:
Are you talking about disabling it as the default?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Parameter in Icontact Avian edition?

Hi. In icontact burt edition, i was using parameter to open it in the page i wanted , e.g ...\iContact.exe|-openIn=2 to open it to the second tab (call history). I found that this doesn't work to the Avian edition. Is there anything i can write to have the previews ? Thanks,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sonynakata:
e.g ...\iContact.exe -recents
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Ok thanks. (I found out that it still works tha above parameters, It was a jml today problem in which i wanted to integrate.. )
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
7.0.7 timing?

Hi thx1200,

even knowing that you are quite busy with other stuff it would be very nice if you could update a little bit on your plans for the next updated version (7.0.6 is now out quite a while).

Many thanks!

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DarkPrinceByWWW:
I've edited a little some skins to make one i like: View attachment 226886

I wanna change the call history icons, some suggestions?

And this soft keyboard appears slowly. First to the half of the screen and after to full screen, any idea why?

It is possible to set the background color and the text color by selecting (touch) contacts in the contact list,

but is it possible to change the text color in contact details, like by touching the phone number or mail details?

Edit: Is there any way to make something like a frame above the big letter in contacs that appears by sliding up and down, line in Manila TF3D contacts?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] quicksite:
Here are probably some of the best indicators -- from his PROJECT PAGE at Codeplex -- though I know it's not what you're expressly asking.

(1) His last entry re feature requests was on June 17, 2009: Tab Specific Shortcuts

http://icontactae.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=3304

(2) His "author page" at Codeplex shows that he's been working on an open source touch-friendly music player, Avian Play. From the Codeplex activity, it seems to be his project of choice right now.

(3) His last source-code change entry for iContact is from August 16th: 26978 Aug 16 by avianwaves

I really like the Tab Request listed above. Hopefully he'll come back to this. My biggest request is to enable font display adjustments... on my T-Mobile Wing, the type is still not bold enough for me to read when device is 3 feet away, whether sitting on my desk, or mounted in my car. And the SPECIFIC PHONE # ENTRY LINES are way too small in type. I would not care if text wrapped, or a person's detail page had to scroll. What I want more than anything is highly visible, font weight adjustable Phone # entries.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Many thanks for your effort!

Hopefully thx1200 is droping a note about his plans.

Best regards,

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
LOL I didn't know that CodePlex could be such a source for developer information. ;-)

I have not abandoned this project nor plan to abandon it. Although, yes, Avian Play is my new super secret not-ready-for-primetime project! :-)

To answer some questions

- No release date yet for iContact. In addition to Avian Play, I'm in the process of fixing some bugs on ReRemind which will shortly receive an update. So iContact will be next on my bugfix schedule after that

- Not a lot of new features in the next iContact. There will be a few things I've completed, but in the interest of more frequent updates, I'm going to forgo any grandious large update plans like last version.

- If anybody can help develop this project, I'm happy to add them! That would greatly increase the bug fix rate and new feature rate!

- Personally, I admittedly have become complacent on this project because as it stands, it does pretty much everything that I, personally, need it to do, which sort of makes my interest factor go down a bit, but again I'm not abandoning it. You know how these things go. Free time projects can really take a hit when there are other free time projects you want to do. My RD Tabs users know this very well. The next version of that is a HUGE project and it's taking a heck of a long time for me to get anywhere with it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sonynakata:
iContact Avian Edition 7.0.6,it does not show assistant's phone number.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] snovvman:
Does anyone know if this app supports 320x320? I have been using it with VGA and WVGA and it works great. A friend with 320x320 is envious...

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toesucker:
Please add an option for T9 to also search within the Company field...

Thank you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
In wm 6.5.x is there any way to have bottom bar with icontact?

I want to see bottom bar of wm6.5.1 , (so i can have softbutton to close icontact) and not have icontact to full screen . Is there any registry mod , or something for this? Thanks ,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Sorry, no. I'll look into that in the future. What will probably happen is a new button somewhere to minimize icontact.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mmidyette:
Works great on the Treo Pro
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
If you could do this, man , it would be fantastic. I think this is the only really missing part, All the other thing is excellent .
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
After all , i find out that it can be done!! :) Look at the photo.

To do this i used Showcase Suite 1.1.0 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4030903&postcount=3 and in registry "SUITE_PositionFix_WinClasses" i added icontact .

If icontact is running minimized, them by calling it i have the above result.

If icontact is not running, bu calling it it runs as before (Full screen).

So now my problem is this: I want when i start the phone (from shut down), to have icontacts running minimized. Is there any way to do this? (I could do a script which would run icontact at start, and then minimise it, but i dont want to have the icontact window pop up at start).

By making a script which will run icontact (and bring it to screen ) when prosses icontacts.exe is running, OR minimize it if it is active. By setting this script to left softkey (phone) I could open/close (from screen) icontact every time i press it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rickylcp:
1st of all, thanks to thx1200 for the great app.

I have a very simple question.

Is there any settings to make the iContact back to the main Contact page after dialed or sent SMS?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Bib_x:
Hi, i use iContact 7.0.6 with a new WM6.5.1 ROM 23053.

If i tap on the letter-icon on the right side of a phone-number, in want to send a sms. On former ROMs i was directly in the sms-windows an the field "To:" was filled with the phone-number.

Now i only get in the sms inbox an have to select "New SMS" and my conmtact on my own.

Is this a bug of iContact? Or do i have to put something in the fields/path/argument for the sms-program?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sdlopez83:
ze bump, can't his be looked into. Thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] V@no:
This is a big improvement over subro's iContact.

Unfortunately it doesn't work together iDialer, even with subro's iContact..

AE kind of "integrates" with iDialer when subro's version installed, however, calling from AE any contact is always via regular phone service, not service set by iDialer (google voice for example).

Any way make it work properly with iDialer?

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sdlopez83:
can we get a little wvga action?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] serfer222:
I use WM6.1 and there is no such issue - phone number is filled and I just need to insert message. Maybe your ROM missing something important. Try to compose new sms with another programs and you will see if this is bug in iContacs or in your ROM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] be.fischer:
Skins

Hello,

I have just discovered this new development : good job. I replaced BE edition, but I have a small problem when I use the BE skins. In that case the center icon (general contact list) does not open the list, and the left icon (Favorites) stays in "on" position.

Thank you for your help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rs1990:
I just upgraded from iContact BE to AE and have now lost the integration with iDialer. With BE, I had a bar at the bottom of the iDialer screen that had the same icons as iContact. Now, that is gone.

I saw the following bug fix, but it does not appear that it fixed it: Item 2716

Any thoughts on how to get it back? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dingolino:
Install in parallel iContact von subpro.

than you have it back.

What I have not tried yet is instead of installing the full iDialer subpro Version just to make an empty Directory:

\Program Files\iContact\

or in germa

\Programme\iContact\

maybe this is also working.

The problem is that iDialer is not detecting iContact AE, because AE Version is installed in

\Program Files\iContact AE

Best regards

dingolino
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rs1990:
This version still being developed at all?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] quicksite:
Hard to say. I sorta have the impression the author took on the "Burt's Edition" probably driven by a personal need to improve that Contact app... then pretty much succeeded, and has very little time to continue to apply time to develop further... but I could be wrong.

Two comments: (1) I just switched over from my WM phone (T-Mobile Wing) to a new Android phone, the HTC Hero. Though I love this new phone, I just gotta say: iContact AE is a far greater app than the one HTC supplies for one of their newest phones running their SenseUI. Various little things, such as rapid scrolling and the large LETTER appears telling you where you are in the list. And the ability to jump to an alphabet letter in your list of contacts. Amazingly, not yet there in the out-the-box Hero. (but I have yet to explore "xda-ing" it). I guess what I am saying is, even without that tight integration with supbro's iDialer, this app is still great as is.

(2) Flip side: suprbro is just the opposite: He has been diligently advancing his apps, and offering constant support and feedback to questions posed at XDA. I'm guessing that anyone who is using iCOntact AE requires as STANDARD the idea of thumbnail pics being included in phone list, since it is part of how we visually scan to match face to correct listing. Long while ago I asked suprbo if he would ever EVER include photos in primary list. he was emphatic: NO, because he insists on making his app as fast as possible. ... However, I'm not sure everyone knows that he made a new app, Avatar, which is a Picture-based contact dialer.

It's not even close to the same idea of photos within a scrolling alphabetical list view, however, it is damn good as a "Favorites" dialer, with a truly finger-navigable interface which is perfect for the car, for example.

Just saying: if you could trade off losing photos in list view for having a photo-based Favorites dialer, then you use iContact and get that tight integration -- and -- prob most important, an active developer who seems relentless to make his app suite as good as possible, and fast fast fast.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
I am now using IContact AE on my HD2.

But there is one problem: on the HD2 it is impossible to set Icontact AE as default contact manager.

It used to work on the HD, but not on the HD2 anymore.:confused:

Any solution?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
You pretty much got it right. I had very good intentions on continuing development, but I just don't have time right now. There are still quite a few iContact itches left to scratch, but supbro's version keeps adding many new features, except pictures. I'm not sure I agree with his pictures decision. I don't see any appreciable speed difference once pictures are cached. That means you could cache it all on another thread (BE/AE does not do that right now either) and get the best of both worlds. Does supbro's version have T-9 searching yet? Last I checked it didn't have that either, but he may have added it -- I haven't been checking too closely on his development.

Lately, I've been using the contacts feature of MS3. It's not nearly as useful as either version of iContact, but it's pretty good.

Working ten hours a day and consulting on the side has left me with very little WM development time and what time I do have is going to a new powerful music player project with online and library features not seen in the other freebies (and even commercial) players out there right now.

So all that said, if anybody wants to develop in AE, be my guest! I'm happy to help. I would like to return to this project someday if its not completely replaced by something better in the interim, but right now it's on hiatus. :-( Sorry.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rs1990:
I like the picture support, but even more importantly, I can't live without the long tap support to place a call. That doesn't work in the suprbro version.

My only issue with the iContactAE version is that the iDialer integration doesn't work. Other than that, it is great.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thx1200:
Yea, that offer is still open! I had one contributor behind-the-scenes that added a few pretty neat features, but he didn't want to get involved in the day-to-day stuff.

LOL, it's his app, more power to him. We all have our own opinions on what the priorities of an app are. :-D

AE's alpha-pad has two modes (you can change the default). One is the A-Z which allows you to jump around the list. The other is full T9 support, which is like you said. You start typing on a 0-9 pad and it filters the list down to only the entries that match. I love that! Although, it's not as completely necessary as before as most custom dialers do that now. The advantage of having it in the contacts list is that it allows you to filter the list and then not just dial, but also edit, send email, etc.

Actually, list editing will be a major feature! It won't appear right away, because I want to get the core part of the player out before I code that part, but it will still be in beta at that time so nobody will expect it feature complete.

If you have ever used Conduits Pocket Player before, you know it has a super powerful library. I love that! It automatically has all your music categorized and sorted. Unfortunately, Conduits has shifted direction and is dedicating very few resources to Pocket Player. My player will pick up where they left off. I'm using SQL CE to provide a robust database for Avian Play. It will have built-in categories for the usual things: artists, album artists, albums, etc. It will also be customizable. You can create custom SQL queries to create specific categories, based on tags in the audio files.

The final big feature that nobody else is doing is that Avian Play will have separate control surfaces based on what the file is. You will have one control surface optimized for music, one for online radio, and one for podcasts/audio books. Each type has different needs, so it doesn't make sense, for example, to have navigation (FF/skip some time) for online radio. Each control surface is fully customizable by the user, not the skin designer! You can replace buttons as easy as you pick a song. In fact, the only control skin designers will have is the appearance of the player's graphics. The rest of the customization is easy for the end user.

I can't wait until it's ready for prime time because I'm having a blast coding it.