[APP] Facebook Outlook Sync for Sense 2.5

cajunflavoredbob · Jan 27, 2011

swiss420 said:
Thanks for the cool little App. Tried it out and after finaly deciding which version could be the newer one. I picked probably the wrong one. Uninstalled the old one and installed the other one and it ran through much better.

I guess I was just the 100th person to thank you. In remembrance I took a screenshot. So now move your a.. and finish this app. lol

Not meant very seriously. If I may the App Icon needs a little touch up. After all first impressions count. Acctualy an App that messes with Contacts I want to be sure that it does not mix them up. It doesent seemed to just for people reading this. But the Icon does not leave that impression. Made a Backup first of my Contacts just to be sure. Which should be done anyway so that might be acctualy a good thing. lol

Ok I am done critizing. It seems I am not getting anywhere as you can see. There is a silver lining in everything. Appreciate that you help keep WM alive with good ideas.

Nice icons. My favorite was the second one.

swiss420 · Jan 27, 2011

Just thought I would create some inspiration for you. If you need anything from them just let me know. The Second one I just redone from scratch to make the edges much nicer and lay down the facebook icon to match the Outlook logo.

I like your icon. It serves its purpose. If anyone would wait for me to make something he would get a whole bunch of icons and only a crapy programm. I prefer it your way and not intentionaly calling your Icon crapy. lol

phalkon30 · Jan 27, 2011

JVH3 said:
New version uploaded to post #1.
Should fix all crash issues.
If any errors occur, they should be trapped with a message.
Please post any screen shots of the error.

If you are using an energy rom, with a compact (panel for sure) start menu, switch to the normal start menu first. Then install it. Then switch back to whatever start menu that you want. If you don't do it this way, the shortcut will go to the wrong place. The compact start menu is the cause of the problem. If I correct for it, it won't work correctly for the normal start menu or international ROMs.

All other reported issues should be corrected.

I haven't tried it yet, but from my experience using the compact panel start menu, a reboot fixes the issues with the icons going to the wrong folder. The XDA Facebook app does that, and a reboot places the icon in the correct folder.

swiss420 · Jan 27, 2011

Played around some more with designs and made these mokups which might give you an ideas on how to design it a little bit.

JVH3 · Jan 27, 2011

swiss420 said:
Played around some more with designs and made these mockups which might give you an ideas on how to design it a little bit.

Looks nice. I like how the button and the image are framed.

I can load an image for the background. Then a user can modify that however they see fit and I'll default to one of these.

If you can upload the images for keep outlook and the replace with, then I can add those as images and handle the onclick. I assume they have a transparent background.

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My main initial concern was getting the function done. But this will make it much nicer.

I'll also need to add some reg entry so the user can control the font color.

This is going to need to wait until at least Friday night before I will be able to get to it. Probably Saturday though.

Thanks for all the designs. They will really polish it up.

swiss420 · Jan 28, 2011

Repacked some of the Graphics and Icons, hope this helps.

JVH3 · Jan 30, 2011

swiss420 said:
Repacked some of the Graphics and Icons, hope this helps.

I uploaded a new version using the graphics you uploaded.

So, it has the icon, the background, and images instead of the buttons.

Currently only tested on WVGA.

I did not make it skinable yet. I ran into some wierd issues.
For background color, transparent is not properly supported by the compact dot net framework. So, the buttons kept having a white background. I got around it by editting the png files. There are other ways to get around it.

And for standard icons, you can have transparent, but not various levels of transparancy.

Next version will be skinable.

JVH3 · Jan 30, 2011

Tested version 1002 on VGA and WVGS - screen captures

I tested this on both my Fuze and Tilt 2. (Raphael and Rhodium).

I took some scren captures.

The graphics by swiss420 are great.

Next version will have automatic scheduling and skinable graphics.

Going to see if Swiss420 can move the some of the image up a little bit so that VGA will look better.

swiss420 · Jan 30, 2011

Just tried version 1002 but it gives me a .net error as soon as I press on start. See Screenshots. Maybe the same bug from the first version?

Will get right on the VGA Version. I will use your screenshot to see how much I have to move them up. Also will redo the buttons with absolut borders and clear transparancies.

JVH3 · Jan 31, 2011

swiss420 said:
Just tried version 1002 but it gives me a .net error as soon as I press on start. See Screenshots. Maybe the same bug from the first version?

Will get right on the VGA Version. I will use your screenshot to see how much I have to move them up. Also will redo the buttons with absolut borders and clear transparancies.

Not sure what is causing the crash.

It sound like this is happening before even pressing the Start button for you.

Is it installed to the device or the storage card?

It shouldn't matter though. The images are loaded in be setting the property during design time, not at runtime.

[EDIT]
Actually, the 4th pic makes me think it happened after pressing the start button. And the exception being directory not found.
It will look in the directory \Windows\FBContacts\

If it does not find an image for the 1st contact in the list, it will give this exception.

To avoid the error, for now.
Go to the facebook tab.
Force an update.
If that contact has an image and in facebook, you have access, it will download it.
Then run the app.

I will add exception handling to that initial image load.

swiss420 · Jan 31, 2011

I apologize it was a new flash and I have not logged in with Facebook yet. Any chance you can check for that when starting the App or just a little note before pressing start for noobs like me.

Adjusted some of the graphics for VGA. Can you load two different background depending on the resolution or does the background have to work for both. Anyway check to see what you think about the attached stuff.

JVH3 · Jan 31, 2011

swiss420 said:
I apologize it was a new flash and I have not logged in with Facebook yet. Any chance you can check for that when starting the App or just a little note before pressing start for noobs like me.

Adjusted some of the graphics for VGA. Can you load two different background depending on the resolution or does the background have to work for both. Anyway check to see what you think about the attached stuff.

It's simpler on the coding end if the same background works for both VGA and WVGA.

Everything is intitially positioned using the layout editor.

But, I can detect the screen resolution when the form loads. Then, before anything is displayed, I can programatically move and resize anything that needs to be for VGA.

I noticed that the size for the profile pictures is smaller. I can adjust for this, but I think it would be better if the size of that remained the same.

I also would like to display the contact name closer to the pics, but it would run right into the icon that is at the top center.

I am going to work with some controls that are free that should allow the background for text to be transparant and also the background for images to also work so I don't need to square the corners of the buttons. It was made with Visual Studio 2005. I should be able to convert it to Visual Studio 2008 though.

Thanks for all your help with the graphics. It looks alot better with what you have given.

I will be putting a mention on the About page that the graphics came from you.

swiss420 · Jan 31, 2011

No need to make the code too complicated.

Let me adjust it so it works for both. I will attach them in a couple of minutes.

swiss420 · Jan 31, 2011

Ah there are so many different possabilities.

Here one with a box for the name and on top a box for the text.

JVH3 · Feb 4, 2011

New version posted / Fully Skinnable WVGA and VGA

NEW VERSION Uploaded (Feb 4, 2011): FB2ContactPicSync_v1003.CAB
Fully skinnable. Skinned with graphics by Swiss420
Images now fill the whole space.
And the potential for the initial contact crash is fixed.
And the skinning can use pngs with transparency.
And it should be installable to the storage card now.

swiss420 · Feb 4, 2011

Nice job

Looks and works great. Forgot to login to Facebook again so I had to click through the amount of messages as I have Contacts with images until I was able to exit the App. It realy does not exit when a error is encountered. lol On the second try with Facebook connected it ran through perfectly.

JVH3 · Feb 4, 2011

swiss420 said:
Looks and works great. Forgot to login to Facebook again so I had to click through the amount of messages as I have Contacts with images until I was able to exit the App. It realy does not exit when a error is encountered. lol On the second try with Facebook connected it ran through perfectly.

I should probably add some code to detect if that directory is empty.

Maybe instead of a message box, I display a form for the error. Then I can put a menu option to exit the app.

JVH3 · Feb 4, 2011

swiss420 said:
Looks and works great. Forgot to login to Facebook again so I had to click through the amount of messages as I have Contacts with images until I was able to exit the App. It realy does not exit when a error is encountered. lol On the second try with Facebook connected it ran through perfectly.

When you press the buttons, it changes the image to KeepPressed.png or ReplacePressed.png

But, they are the same image in this release.

If you feel like making images for pressed, they can just drop right in.

If you look in program files\FB2ContactPicSync, you will see the png files.

JVH3 · Feb 4, 2011

Example Pic

here is a pic of it in use:

Notice that the images fill the whole box now.

swiss420 · Feb 4, 2011

Just for the fun of it I tried your app on a HDMini. I got so mad I broke the screen. lol Just kidding works fine just my background image is offcourse missaligned for that resolution but your app adjusts fine to it. Unfortunately the HDMini belongs to my Ex Girlfriend so I was only allowed a quick try. Now that we can exchange the graphics ourself I can go nuts with designs. lol Will post some when I get around to it. Attached is a Picture of the HDMini. And the screen did not brake because of JVH3 app.

My excuse for not fixing it yet is that parts from China have not arrived. Which is true but they also have not been ordered yet. The truth, taking that HDMini apart is extremely annoying and already the second time I have to do it for her. Anyway she is happy with the app which is saying allot.

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