I've implemented an AddressBook ABPeoplePicker and that works fine.
I've also registered for drags from vCards and that is working fine.
From the user's point of view this is good: dragNdrop or a UI
widget, whatever you're in the mood for....
But here's the rub: I need to be able to tell that a given record is
the same as another.
In the ABPerson there is a property: kABUIDProperty
When I use [[ABPicker selectedRecords] objectAtIndex:i] to read data
I get consistent values for this property for a given record in
AddressBook. (I assume that this does not do a 'vCardRepresentation'!)
However when I read the kABUIDProperty value from the VERY SAME
record dropped as a vCard -> no joy (different values).
With a bit of fiddling I've managed to convince myself that any
wrapping in a vCard implies that you can never know that a given
vCard IS in fact the identical record as some other vCard.
I simply cannot be the first person to be bloodied by this. Is there
any collective wisdom or am I doomed to writing some
home-grown ABRecord coalescer?
As always THANK-YOU!
Steve
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