Address Book manipulations - best approach
Address Book manipulations - best approach
- Subject: Address Book manipulations - best approach
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:29:07 +1100
I want to store some non-standard info in the address book for various
entries, and am wondering how best to go about providing a user
interface for this. I'd like to do all this transparently, so the user
never need worry about the details, but unfortunately I don't think
it's possible - to much user interaction is required.
My first thought is to whip up a little app just for the purpose, which
shows enough of the generic entry information (e.g. name, title, email,
whatever) to distinguish between entries, and not a whole lot else.
But then this might be a bit strange for the user, who might be a bit
disorientated by my app showing only some info, and the Address Book
showing more. Then they might become confused when, after adding data
using my app, Address Book doesn't show any indication it's there.
There's no documentation relating to it, but I wonder if there's any
sort of secret plugin architecture for the Address Book? I'd just like
to be able to add my own subview to the record view, for my own data
types. That would solve the inconsistency issues, and save me having
to reinvent the wheel with regards to an Address Book program. Any
ideas if such a mechanism exists, or will in future?
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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