PV as address book

[Joshharle]

Hi everyone,
I'm just putting the finishing touches to a program to convert your Outlook/Lotus Notes/ Whatever address book (anything that will export to vCards) into a bunch of Contact Card images for your Vaio Pocket.

Very useful! Just upload the created USER_XXX directory into Vaio and you have a portable address book. Also lets you assign an different image to each person.

Here is an example

(with the details hidden for my mates privacy

The image does not need to be resized by the Vaio, and so loads quickly and looks perfect on "Low Quality" picture viewing mode.

This is just version .0001 or whatever, so if people think they'll use it, I'm open to sugestions and will fix up format, etc.

Should be available some time tomorrow.
Thanks,
Josh

[STORM]

Joshhale,Try undestand This...


C:\unzipped\Vaio\vaio>java -cp .;./libs/xercesImpl.jar;./libs/vCardtoVaio.jar;./
libs/xml-apis.jar;./libs/xmlParserAPIs.jar;./libs/vcard4j-1_1_3.jar com.muchmojo
.vaio.VCardtoVaio
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apach
e/xpath/XPathAPI
at net.sf.vcard4j.util.XpathUtil.getNode(XpathUtil.java:44)
at net.sf.vcard4j.util.XpathUtil.getValue(XpathUtil.java:72)
at net.sf.vcard4j.parser.DomParser.getFormat(DomParser.java:440)
at net.sf.vcard4j.parser.DomParser.parseType(DomParser.java:414)
at net.sf.vcard4j.parser.DomParser.parseVCard(DomParser.java:213)
at net.sf.vcard4j.parser.DomParser.parse(DomParser.java:181)
at com.muchmojo.vaio.VCardtoVaio.addVCard(VCardtoVaio.java:188)
at com.muchmojo.vaio.VCardtoVaio.access$1(VCardtoVaio.java:184)
at com.muchmojo.vaio.VCardtoVaio$2.actionPerformed(VCardtoVaio.java:100)

at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Sour
ce)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

[Joshharle]

Okay Storm
It looks like one of the libraries isn't loading properly. This would be either because it hasn't unzipped properly , or because you need a newer version of Java SE. Try unzipping it again, making sure all files are selected. Then try getting the new Java SE from the link in the readmefirst.html file.

Thanks , hope it fixes it. Fingers crossed :smileygrin:

Josh

[Achalek]

hmmmm......
I have the same problem with loading *.vcf and *.csv files created in Outlook or in The Bat

[STORM]

We have to extract all .rar files in "libs" folder??

[Joshharle]

Hi guys.
Yep I've tested it out and you will almost definitely be getting Storms error if you have not unextracted all the files properly. Please make sure that you unzip all the files, and that they all extract to the correct folders.

Have fun!

Josh

EDIT: STORM - I think you have mistaken the .jar files for .rar files. You don't need to do anything with the .jar files, except unextract them to the libs directory.

[everythingSony]

Fair play to you Josh, I take my hat of to your superior knowledge!

It's great to see someone who knows what they talk about in such detail - oh, how can we gain such knowledge oh master!!!

It would be great if there were more guys like you in this community that could write bits of software to help enhance our VP's even more.

So when are you going to write something to help manage pics on the VP, or even something to play mpegs or wmv's? Seriously though, with your knowledge do you think that either of these things are possible?

There have been lots of posts about what we all would like the VP to do, it would be nice if someone like yourself with great technical knowledge could let us all know if these are possible or simply in the land of make believe...

The challenge is set...

Once again, thanks for this great development. I am only new to the VP though will definitely try out this software in due course.

Cheers,
J

[STORM]

C:\Vaio\vaio>java -cp .;./libs/xercesImpl.jar;./libs/vCardtoVaio.jar;./libs/xml-
apis.jar;./libs/xmlParserAPIs.jar;./libs/vcard4j-1_1_3.jar com.muchmojo.vaio.VCa
rdtoVaio
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apach
e/xpath/XPathAPI

Same problem

I have unzzip al the Vaio.zip files again, i install the java you recomend in redmefirst and i have the famous error again...
I don´t know what i have doing wrong

PS:Now i tried the exemple.vcf file and have this error...

[Elkingti]

Same problem here.
I have the same problem of STORM.
I don't know what to do more.

[Achalek]

I have the same problem with loading *.vcf and *.csv files created in Outlook Express or in The Bat
but if a use example.vcf, everything is OK

[Joshharle]

Sorry for causing so much of a problem, but there is another library that you may need that is not included in the original Vaio.zip.

I have updated the Vaio.zip file , and hopefully your problems will cease.:smileygrin:

Regarding possibility of video and image utilities suggested by everythingSony, I think you're over estimating my abilities, at least at the moment. The addressbook utility doesn't really do anything directly with the PV, just automates a process you could do yourself.

I have been looking at hacking/reverse-engineering the PV, but as Sony does not give an indication of the underlying hardware, this would be an uphill task. Still, might make a good hobby for the next few months/years/...

Thanks,
Josh