History

• ContactKeeper 1.5.0 (2011-11-11)
  • You can now export your database to a CSV file. This type of file can be imported into another program.
  • It is now possible to scroll in the list with the arrow up and arrow down keys, while the cursor is in the "Quick search" field.
  • The function "E-mail..." in the menu "Database" is removed. That function could be used to e-mail the current database, using the default e-mail client.
  • ContactKeeper will open Windows Explorer with the current database selected when you click on the status bar at the bottom of ContactKeeper. This is done to help you make a back-up of the database file.
  • A text file with the contents of your database file will be generated each time you close your database. This text file is stored in the same directory as your database file. You can disable this option in the menu "Options" -> "Save".
• ContactKeeper 1.4.3 (2009-10-20)
  • Bug fixed. When you searched in the quick search for the letter "p" you also got names with the combinantion "th" in the result list.
  • When you uninstall ContactKeeper, the file association of .mdb files is no longer removed.
  • At request, added a pink color scheme for the calendar.
  • Tamil language file added.
  • Bug fixed. The birthday calendar caused an error when february 29th was the last day in the database.
• ContactKeeper 1.4.2 (2009-01-20)
  • Urdu language file added.
  • The quick search function is now accents-insensitive. For example if you type "Jose" or "Josè" it will also find "José".
• ContactKeeper 1.4.1 (2008-09-25)
  • The Portuguese (Brazilian) language file is updated.
  • The buttons in the windows "Export" and "E-mail" now have icons and Tooltiptext added for the visual impaired users.
  • The Indonesian language file is updated.
• ContactKeeper 1.4.0 (2008-01-04)
  • When exporting to (x)html, multiple space-characters got shown as one space-character, this is now fixed.
  • If you copy your database via the menu "Database" -> "Copy...", then the new name will automatically be based on the old name followed by the date.
  • The field "First name" and "Last name" is now merged together to one field called "Name". This as a solution for the many people who asked for a way to store address information from companies, also people asked for a field "Middle name", what is used in some countries. From now on, there is only one field "Name", so you have the freedom to choice for yourself in what format you wish to store names. Your database will automatically be converted when you open it for the first time in ContactKeeper 1.4.0, but before the conversion, ContactKeeper will take a copy of your database in the folder of the database under the name "<nameofdatabase>_BeforeVersion140.mdb". You can use this copy if you want to use an older version of ContactKeeper again.
  • Under Windows XP, you will notice that ContactKeeper now uses the XP lay-out for certain parts.
  • The Search-window remembers what was last selected from the drop-down "Contains", "Begins with",...
  • The "Quick Search" function now works on a different way. If you type in "Doe" for example, then it will show every person that contains "Doe" in the name. If you search on "John Doe", then all persons with "John" and with "Doe" in the name will be shown. Also, the order of the name is not important, if the person is stored as "Doe John" and you search on "John Doe" then it will show that person as well. The "Quick Search" field gets emptied when you click on it, so that it is always ready for a new search.
  • The numbers in the status bar now have a different meaning, the first number is how many persons are shown, the second number shows how many persons are in the database in total. For example "45/150" means that there are 150 persons in the database but that there are only 45 persons shown as the result of a search.
• ContactKeeper 1.3.6 (2007-11-29)
  • Japanese language file added.
  • Macedonian language file added.
  • Persian language file added.
  • Arabic language file added.
  • New Css-style "Monospace" added for the function export to (x)html. All the characters have the same width in this lay-out.
• ContactKeeper 1.3.5 (2007-11-06)
  • The Albanian language file is updated.
  • The Turkish language file is updated.
  • The password-function has been removed from ContactKeeper. You are still able to open a password-protected database, but the password will be removed from the database by ContactKeeper before opening.
  • Bug fixed. When asking the details of a person in the Birthday reminder, the error "not a valid database" was shown.
• ContactKeeper 1.3.4 (2007-08-13)
  • I made a small improvement to the tab-sequence of the window "Add" and "Edit".
  • The installation-setup now works under Windows Vista without showing error-messages.
• ContactKeeper 1.3.3 (2007-05-31)
  • Vietnamese language file added.
  • Portuguese (Portugal) language file added.
• ContactKeeper 1.3.2 (2007-03-07)
  • The Czech language file is updated.
  • A virus had slipped into the installation setup of ContactKeeper 1.3.1, more specific the component file "mswinsck.ocx" was infected with the "Trojan horse Generic3.GOH", detectable with "AVG Free Edition". This virus is now cleaned. I deeply apologize for this misfortune!
• ContactKeeper 1.3.1 (2007-03-04)
  • Frisian language file added.
  • The German language file is updated.
  • The filename of the database is now shown in the title bar and also the program version, for example if a database is opened you will see "Private.mdb - ContactKeeper 1.3.1", if no database is opened then you will just see "ContactKeeper 1.3.1" in the title bar.
  • The Slovak language file is updated.
  • The file type .mdb now gets associated with ContactKeeper, but only if it is not already associated to another program like Microsoft Access. This means that you can start ContactKeeper by clicking the database file in Explorer, the icon of the database file will also be the ContactKeeper icon.
  • Some info from the About-window is now shown on the Main-window too when no person is selected. Also the About-window has changed a little.
  • The new function "E-mail" allows you to select multiple persons in ContactKeeper to compose an e-mail message too. It starts the default mail client, but you have also the possibility to copy the list with e-mail addresses to the clipboard to paste in a webmail-application for example.
  • Bug fixed. A run-time error occurred when starting ContactKeeper 1.3.0 for the first time with a Windows-account with restricted access.
• ContactKeeper 1.3.0 (2006-12-05)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) language file added.
  • If no language is selected yet, then the language as defined in Windows will now be choosen automatically, if available.
  • Slovenian language file added.
  • Bug fixed. If you terminated the Birthday calendar via the task manager of Windows then the calender was shown twice the next time.
  • The menu "File" is now called "Database".
  • If you right-click on yahoo e-mail address then you can via the menu-option "Website" visit the profile of that yahoo user.
  • The menu item "List" in the menu "Options" is now called "Name".
  • The lay-out has changed a little, this should improve the clarity.
  • Bug fixed. If you opened ContactKeeper from the Birthday reminder then the Hyperlink function did not work.
  • The buttons have recieved icons.
  • You can now enlarge the font size via the menu Options -> Font.
  • Russian language file added.
  • Latvian language file added.
  • Croatian language file added.
  • Indonesian language file added.
  • Galician language file added.
  • New behaviour if you resize the main window, now first the column with the names enlarge until a certain size and after that the Numbers-, the E-mail- and the Note-field get larger.
  • ContactKeeper will now automatically create a database with the name "ContactKeeper.mdb" in the folder "My Documents" when you run ContactKeeper for the first time, or ContactKeeper will open that database file if it already exists. This should make it more easy for first-time users.
  • The function "Print" is now called "Export". At this moment you can export to Html or Txt.
  • Now the hyperlinks in the Note field are still clickable hyperlinks when you export to Html.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.9 (2005-11-01)
  • I discovered that the label of the date format (dd/mm/yyyy) was empty when you ran ContactKeeper for the first time. This has been corrected.
  • Bug fixed. Placing the cursor with the mouse at the beginning of the Note field caused a run-time error '5'.
  • Bug fixed. If ContactKeeper was closed via the menu File -> Exit then it did not store the setting that remembers if the ContactKeeper was maximized or not.
  • While closing a database ContactKeeper now also compresses the database so that the file size remains as small as possible. The only requirement is that the database is not opened by another user. If an error occurs then it will be logged into the error log file "ContactKeeper.log".
  • In windows that have a "Cancel" button you can now also use the "Esc"-key to close the window.
  • Icelandic language file added.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.8 (2005-10-04)
  • The new hyperlink function in ContactKeeper 1.2.7 caused an error dialog when you closed the program via the menu File -> Exit. I have now written a new less complex hyperlink function that doesn't use subclassing.
  • Bug fixed. Only the first page of the html was printed, changing the css fixed this problem.
  • Added checkboxes for the Phone Description and the E-mail Description fields in the Print window.
  • In the Print window you can now select individually wich persons you want to include in the Print result.
  • Fixed a "limitation" where the program gave an error "query too complex" if you did a search for a phone number that had a very large result (500 persons for example).
  • Added a counter to the status bar with the number of persons in the database.
  • Bug fixed. If you changed the sorting of the list while a person was selected, then that person wasn't selected any more after re-sorting, while his details where still shown.
  • The phone numbers and e-mail addresses and their description are not shown in two columns any more, the descriptions are now shown directly after the phone number or e-mail address between brackets.
  • Changed the labels "Phone" into "Number" for more general use.
  • The Swedish language file is updated.
  • All the labels have now the property auto-size so that they automatically adjust at the length of the translation.
  • When you right click on a number or an e-mail then you now have the choice too copy only the number or e-mail or copy the number and the description or the e-mail and the description to the clipboard.
  • When you create a new database it is now created based on the "locale identifier" (these are the regional settings) of your system. This causes for example that a database made on a Swedish computer uses the Swedish alphabet for sorting and not the English alphabet. For more background-information see the following forum topic: http://www.vani.be/forum/index.php?topic=57.0
  • The source code of the html generated by the print function and the calendar is now indented.
  • New function: "File" -> "Send e-mail", this lets you send a copy of the current opened database by e-mail, using the default e-mail client. The function remembers the last used e-mail address for the recipient.
  • When you right-click in a field to show the pop-up menu then the field doesn't lose his focus any more.
  • When you choose "Copy" in the popup menu of the First name, Last name, Date of birth, Address or Note field and nothing is selected in that field then the entire content of that field gets copied to the clipboard.
  • In the search window, the address frame is shown above the number and e-mail frame now.
  • Added extra search criteria: "Contains" and "Begins with" added by the e-mail field and "Contains" also to the number field.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.7 (2005-09-01)
  • Changed the lay-out of the toolbars.
  • Bug fixed. It was not possible to insert Chinese characters in the Note field. This bug is fixed by using another function to display hyperlinks in the Note field.
  • The shortcut for the search function is now Ctrl+F instead of F3. This is more in accordance with other programs.
  • The e-mail address of the translator is not shown any more in the About window. You can now contact the translator via the website.
  • The html layout of the Print function and the Calender did not show correctly in the Firefox browser. Now the lay-out shows the same as well in Internet Explorer as in Firefox.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.6 (2005-07-03)
  • Turkish language file added.
  • Bug fixed. When ContactKeeper was started for the first time then the column titles were displayed in the order "Last name First name" while it actually should be "First name Last name".
  • Hebrew language file added.
  • After adding or editing a person while a search result was shown, the search result will not longer be shown, but the whole list will be shown again.
  • Enlarged the sizes of the fields to more "unlimited" sizes, the lay-out however did not change. The number of characters that the fields now can contain are 50 characters for First name, Last name and Phone number and 100 characters for E-mail and Description.
  • The First name and Last name are now shown as tool-tip text when you bring your cursor above the name, the same happens when you bring your cursor over an E-mail address or Phone number.
  • When you right-click on an e-mail address that ends on "@hotmail.com" or "@msn.com" or where the description contains the word "msn" (case insensitive) then you will see a new item "Website" in the pop-up menu that appears, this is a shortcut to the msn profile of that e-mail address.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.5 (2005-04-20)
  • Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic) language file added.
  • Added an icon to the title bar of all windows so that ContactKeeper is always shown in the Alt+Tab menu in Windows.
  • Bug fixed. The search function caused a run-time error '5' since version 1.2.4.
  • The offline help files are no longer used. They took too many time to update them every time. Instead a link to the website is shown, support will be given via the online forum.
  • Basque language file added.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.4 (2005-03-28)
  • Reduced the installer size by 5% by using another component file.
  • The main window can be resized by dragging the edges of the window.
  • Bug fixed. In the birthday calendar, if someone had his birthday on February 29th, then in a non-intercalary year no birthdays where displayed after February.
  • Slovak language file added.
  • An understandable error message is shown if Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) or Microsoft Jet is missing.
  • The calendar is now also available if no database is opened.
  • Increased the number of characters from the First name field from 15 to 20, from the Phone Number field from 15 to 20 and from the Description fields from 10 to 15 characters.
  • When ContactKeeper was closed while maximized then ContactKeeper will start maximized again when run next time.
  • The dialog windows (for example the windows Add, Edit, Search,...) now stay on top untill closed.
  • Added shortcut to the Birthday reminder in the start menu.
  • In the calendar, the user can now choose wich color sheme he wants to use. If you have knowledge of css, then you can make your own color sheme.
  • Czech language file added.
  • Added a print button to the calender to print the current page.
  • You now have the option to choose if a week should start on monday of on sunday in the calendar.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.3 (2005-02-13)
  • French and German language files are updated by new translators.
  • In the birthday reminder, if a person has his birthday today then his name is marked in red.
  • Hungarian language file added.
  • Albanian language file added.
  • New colors for the birthday calendar.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.2 (2005-01-19)
  • Bug fixed, the "Check version" function returned to checked even if it was unchecked before every time ContactKeeper started.
  • The birthday reminder window can now be minimized.
  • Bug fixed. The function that checks online for a newer version couldn't detect the proxyserver if a seperate proxyserver was defined for each protocol.
  • ContactKeeper remembers in wich folder a database was last opened or created and when opening or creating a database again it will initially start looking in that folder again.
  • The first person in the Birthday reminder window is selected so that the Details button is immediately available.
  • The logo of ContactKeeper is added to the Birthday reminder to let the user know that it is a part of ContactKeeper. The logo of a birthday present is added to.
  • Bug fixed. When using a large font the toolbar overlapped a part of the Details frame.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.1 (2004-12-24)
  • The buttons and menu items "Print" and "Search" are now only enabled if the list contains persons.
  • Bulgarian language file added.
  • The field "Note" in the windows "Add" and "Edit" has the same size as in the main window.
  • If the list is set up to be sorted on "Last name First name", then the fields "Last name" and "First Name" are also displayed in that order in the windows "Add", "Edit" and "Search".
  • ContactKeeper logo now consist of the colors orange and gray.
  • Swedish language file added.
  • Possibility to save the birthday calendar.
  • Fixed a bug from version 1.2.0 that caused an error when trying to edit a person while the search function was active.
• ContactKeeper 1.2.0 (2004-11-14)
  • Print function! The print function generates an (x)html page wich you can Save or Print. You can also choose a lay-out or even define your own lay-out by making your own css file.
  • Removed the menu "View" wich only had one subitem "Birthday calendar". The item "Birthday calendar" is now in the menu "Action".
  • The name of each language is now displayed in English in the menu Options -> Language.
  • Catalan language file added.
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) language file added.
  • The main window can be maximised again. The list of persons and the "Note" field will stretch with the window.
  • The content of the "Note" field has no limit in width any more.
  • Scrollbars in the "Note" field are only shown if necessary.
  • A phone number or e-mail address stays selected after moving up or down in the list, in the "Add" or "Edit" window.
  • New exclamation icon in the window that notifies you if a newer version of ContactKeeper is available.
  • The help files are updated.
  • All language files, except Italian, are updated.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.7 (2004-10-08)
  • Greek language file added.
  • Norwegian language file updated.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.6 (2004-09-30)
  • Italian language file added.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.5 (2004-09-27)
  • Added Polish and Norwegian language file.
  • Minor design bug fix, when a first name or last name was added to the list it was followed by spaces what caused the column to display "..." at the end of the line sometimes.
  • Minor bug fix; when changing the language, the word "Age" did not change immediately.
  • Added menu item "Copy" in the menu "File". This item enables you to make a copy of the database that is currently open.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.4 (2004-09-06)
  • Added Romanian language file.
  • Bug fixed. Some persons with a dial-up internet connection recieved a run-time error '40006' caused by the "Check version" function.
  • New window for the "Check version" function. Added a checkbox "Do not remind me again for this version." to the window that gives you a reminder when a newer version is available. If this checkbox is checked, then you won't recieve a reminder any more for this version, but you will recieve a reminder again for the next version.
  • Age is now shown by the "Details" of a person, if the date of birth is filled in.
  • The lay-out of the progress bar wich is shown when creating a birthday calender is changed.
  • Bug fixed. When trying to use the "Delete" button in the "Quick search" field, then the function for removing a person was activated. The keyboard combination for removing a person is now "Ctrl+R" instead of "Del".
  • Bug fixed. If the "Default database" was removed, then the birthday reminder caused an error.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.3 (2004-08-20)
  • Added Finnish language file.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.2 (2004-07-17)
  • Bug fixed. Since version 1.1.1, when you wanted to add or edit a person you recieved a run-time error '94' when no date of birth was filled in.
  • Bug fixed. When using Norton Personal Firewall, a run-time error '5' occured while checking online for a newer version.
  • The three latest opened databases are now listed in the menu "File". When you click on a shorcut to a database that doesn't exist anymore, then that entry will be removed from the list.
  • Added Estonian language file.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.1 (2004-07-19)
  • Added Danish language file.
  • Bug fixed. On systems where the date format was "mm/dd/yyyy", dates where not correctly saved, more specific the day number and the month number were swapped.
  • Added a new option to change the date format to use in ContactKeeper, you have three choices: "dd/mm/yyyy", "mm/dd/yyyy" or "yyyy/mm/dd".
  • Bug fixed. The birthday reminder played the sound file while checking even if there were no birthdays.
  • The function to check online for a newer version has been replaced with another method. If a proxyserver is defined in Windows, then that proxyserver will be used, otherwise a direct connection will be used.
  • Smaller "Note" field in search window.
  • Updated help files.
• ContactKeeper 1.1.0 (2004-06-23)
  • New ContactKeeper logo.
  • Birthday reminder enables you to view a reminder window when you log on to Windows if someone has a birthday in the next days. You can set a sound to play when the reminder appears. You can set the number of days before the birthday since when a reminder should be displayed every day. You can also set a single day to display the reminder once, for example to display the reminder 7 days before the birthday. From the reminder window you can also let ContactKeeper show the details of a person by selecting the person and clicking on the button "Details" or by double-clicking on the name of a person or by selecting a person and hitting "Enter" or right-click on a person and choose "Details" from the pop-up menu that appears.
  • The order of the names in the list can be changed, instead of "First name Last name" the list can also be shown and sorted by "Last name First name".
  • Generation of the birthday calendar is 75% faster.
  • Updated help files.
  • Updated language files.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.3 (2004-06-04)
  • New Spanish language file, Spanish translation is now complete.
  • Spanish help file added.
  • The settings are now saved in the registry, in the past settings were saved in ".ini" files. Your old settings are automatically converted to the registry after which the original ".ini" file will be deleted.
  • The personal folder "My Documents" is now the default folder that ContactKeeper proposes as a location to save a new database. This because not all users have write permissions in the folder "Program Files" which was used before.
  • For opening a database ContactKeeper now also looks by default in the personal folder "My Documents".
  • The proposed filename when you create a new database is now "ContactKeeper.mdb".
  • English and Dutch help file updated.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.2 (2004-05-30)
  • Improved dialog boxes, pictograms added.
  • Added Ukrainian language.
  • Made the help files smaller by removing unnecessary screenshots and by only showing the relevant part of the window in the screenshots. Because of this the help files are each about 35kB instead of 1.7MB. As a result of this the installation setup is also 64% smaller!
• ContactKeeper 1.0.1 (2004-05-14)
  • Bug fixed. If your country setting in Windows indicated that the date format was something else then dd/mm/yyyy then a run-time error '308' occured when you tried to edit a person, in case the date of birth of that person was filled in.
  • When adding, editing of searching persons, the program checks if the date is valid and shows a message box when it is not valid.
  • In the window to add or edit a person is mentioned that the date format is dd/mm/yyyy.
  • Added note to the help about date format dd/mm/yyyy and updated the screenshots in the help.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 (2004-05-12)
  • English & Dutch help file included.
  • Added Spanish language.
  • ContactKeeper detects if a database is read-only and will automatically disable the functions add, edit and remove if the database is read-only.
  • Added extra shortcut keys; Ctrl+A for add, Ctrl+E for edit, Del for remove and F3 to search.
  • The windows to add or edit a phone number or e-mail address are automatically also closed when the window to add or edit a person is closed.
  • The birthday calendar meets the XHTML 1.1 standard.
  • The installation setup will detect if an instance of ContactKeeper is still active while trying to install a newer version.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 9 (2004-04-14)
  • Lay-out birthday calender changed. Besides it know meets the XHTML 1.0 STRICT and the CSS 2.0 standard.
  • Logo ContactKeeper visible when nog person is selected.
  • Pressing the Enter-button bij the option default database has the same effect als the OK-button.
  • When adding or editing a person: When you double click on an empty phone- or emaillist then the window to add a phone number or email address will appear.
  • Added extra languages to the installation setup.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 8 (2004-03-26)
  • Enhanced the default size of the birthday calendar window to fit well on 800x600 resolution too.
  • The mousepointer appears as an hourglass when generating the birthday calendar.
  • The installation setup determines automatically wich language to use during the installation.
  • The option "Create a Quick Launch icon" has been removed from the installation setup.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 7 (2004-03-25)
  • In the Search function: only the digits are compared if you search on a phone number. For example if you search on the number "0437-361298" and the number is stored as "0437/36.12.98" in the database, then the search function will find it too. Because it compares based on "0437361298".
  • The main window now has a fixed size.
  • A more modern cursor will be used in the about screen when you select a hyperlink.
  • The installation setup can be executed in English or Dutch.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 6 (2004-03-17)
  • URL's in the Note field are automatically detected and converted to hyperlinks. The following formats are supported: "about:", "file:", "ftp:", "gopher:", "http:", "https:", "mailto:", "news:", "telnet:" and "www.".
  • Changed the name of the Option "Startup" into "Default database" to be more suitable.
  • When you open a database when there is no default database assigned to the current user yet, then the program will register that database as the default database for that user.
  • Added right-click menus to Firstname, Lastname, Address and Note field too with the functions Copy and Paste.
  • The windows to Add, Open or Search a person are shown in the taskbar.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 5 (2004-03-05)
  • Check online for a newer version when program starts. This option is active by default.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 4 (2004-03-05)
  • The following events are added when a person, phone number or email address is selected. When "Enter" pressed; "Edit" window is activated. When double-clicked; "Edit" window is activated. When "Ctrl+C" pressed; name, phone number or email address is copied to clipboard.
  • Pop-up menus added when you click with the right-mouse-button enabling you to add, edit and remove a person, phone number or email address, move phone numbers or email adresses up or down in the list, copy name, phone number or email address to the clipboard or to send an email to the selected e-mail address.
  • Several minor improvements about focussing and navigating with the keyboard.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 3 (2004-02-28)
  • Edit window is activated by doubleclicking a person or by hitting the Enter-button when a personis selected.
  • When you click on a person with the right mouse button then a pop-up menu appears to edit the person details or to remove that person or to copy his name to the clipboard.
  • Shortcuts are added in the menu, for example F1 for the help, Ctrl+F to search, etc.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 2 (2004-02-26)
  • Added languages: German, French.
• ContactKeeper 1.0.0 Beta 1 (2004-02-26)
  • First public release.