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Re: help in scripting Address book

On Nov 26, 2003, at 1:36 PM, Gordon Beckhart wrote:

want to read the phone numbers in Applescript. How does one get the home or work or other phone numbers?
frustrated in Jersey
gordon Beckhart


Here's one way:

tell application "Address Book"
set friendToFind to first person whose name is "BJ" and last name isn't "Smith"
set hisNumbers to value of every phone of friendToFind
end tell

It can be a little confusing reading application dictionaries. Under the 'Address Book Script Suite' you can find the relevant classes. You might naturally think that (the only slightly oddly named) 'phone' class is what you're looking for, and you'd be right. But make sure you understand that where it lists 'contact info' next to '<inheritance>', what it's saying is that you need to check the 'contact info' class to find inherited properties which also apply to this class. So, when the script above references 'value', it is asking for a property of the 'phone' class which was inherited from 'contact info'. Make sense?

Cheers,
Mike
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