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conctat-adress manager
« on: 2010.02.11, 00:27:07 »
I remember of the address manager Conctat/2.
Is it abandoned?
What about qt app Kontakter ?
http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Kontakter?content=111040
Os/2 porting is worth while? If so it is, any willing programmer?

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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #1 on: 2010.02.11, 03:29:12 »
The most important thing about a contact manager is managing the information you use. So what is also important is import/export to programs like PMMail/2. A simple port would be interesting, but making it work with OS/2 programs that we use everyday would be better.

I see it has only 210 downloads, so maybe this can be taken over for our use?
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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #2 on: 2010.02.11, 08:07:19 »
I am kinda happy with gMail's functionality in that respect... now only if there was an OS/2 client (as opposed to having to use gMail directly) to directly utilize that information...
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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #3 on: 2010.02.11, 10:21:01 »
I use the adressbook in Thunderbird as a contact manager. Import/Export works with ldif, comma-separated, and tab-delimited formats. This export/import should work with most other types of adressbooks and also make it possible to import to spreadsheets.

The russian WPPerson has a potential, I think, to be a nice standalone contact manager but lacks for the moment both functions and good layout.
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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #4 on: 2010.02.12, 11:02:40 »


good arguments!


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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #5 on: 2010.02.20, 22:34:19 »
I remember of the address manager Conctat/2.
Is it abandoned?


Contact/2 ist still avi:

http://www.subsys.de/contact

My webspace has been moved some weeks ago and I just forgot to edit the changes so website was not available. It has been fixed now.


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So what is also important is import/export to programs like PMMail/2.

actually it is possible to export data sets from contact to pmmail. Since PMMail has been moved to this exclusive club license I don't have a current version anymore. I'm still using the last public version and I haven't tested Contact/2 export filters with current PMMail versions, I just lost track of any changes made in PMMail.

But to be honest it is a pain to export data every time after adding a new data set in one application to have it available in another app. The best thing you can do is using DRAGTEXT. Then you can drag email addresses from contact to pmmail.

Btw the best thing in Contact/2 is the "Text Export Profile Editor". There you can build your own export filters with use of strings and variables. This is a very powerful feature. You can use it e.g. to fill your data sets into HTML templates or any tags to data sets etc.pp.. It works quite good but it need careful input without syntax errors.

The last change i made in Contact was the support for FBCaller. Now you can dial fon numbers out of Contact if you own a Fritzbox which is supported by FBCaller.

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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #6 on: 2010.02.21, 08:00:33 »
download PMMail/2 from Hobbes...

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm/pmmail-3-06-42-1484.wpi

You can "join the club" if you want.

I don't know that any address-book format has changed, but it's easy to find out.

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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #7 on: 2010.02.21, 10:16:25 »
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I don't know that any address-book format has changed, but it's easy to find out.

Personally I don't need it (im using DRAGTEXT) so the user has to find it out by himself and support the developer of a free software with a decent bug report. And no I don't support this kind of club license, I prefer open source or free software solutions for standard applications as well as my own apps are.


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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #8 on: 2010.02.21, 22:00:31 »
I remember of the address manager Conctat/2.
Is it abandoned?


Contact/2 ist still avi:

http://www.subsys.de/contact

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Much thanks for your OS/2 apps! Been very happy with them! The only request I think I could make for any of them is, if there's a way to hold off on unzipping files until after the drag-drop release for zip files (so when one is unzipping large files, they dont have to hold the mouse over the receiving folder until it's processed) it would be wonderful!

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Re: conctat-adress manager
« Reply #9 on: 2010.02.22, 09:06:42 »

Much thanks for your OS/2 apps! Been very happy with them! The only request I think I could make for any of them is, if there's a way to hold off on unzipping files until after the drag-drop release for zip files (so when one is unzipping large files, they dont have to hold the mouse over the receiving folder until it's processed) it would be wonderful!


Yes I know it this is not optimal. But it is a technical problem I can't solve. I try to explain: EZip has been developed in Vispro and there I don't have control over the whole system and all apis. Actually in Vispro I don't know the target of Drag-and-Drop activities outside of Vispro programs. When you start draging eZip unpacks all marked files into a temporary directory. When you do the "drop", the WorkPlaceShell copies the file to the right folder. When you drop before all files have been temporary extracted you get problems. Files will not be written directly from Vispro to the target directory - I don't even know which is the target directory. The trick with temp files works pretty good with smaller files sizes - the user don't even recognize it. But I agree - with larger files it is a pain.

To change this behaviour it would need an extension for Vispro. E.g. when Vispro would know the target directory after a drop I could add  a popup window with a progress bar and files will be extracted in background directly to target. But unfortunetaly Vispro is out of support.

I can only recommend to extract larger files is to use the "extract to directory" dialog instead drag and drop. If anyone have a better idea just let me know.

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