scripting Bluetooth/Address Book
scripting Bluetooth/Address Book
- Subject: scripting Bluetooth/Address Book
- From: Tommy Beavitt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:40:17 +0000
Hi,
I have been looking all over the internet for this one including this
list's archives. Perhaps what I want to do is not currently possible.
I have a Filemaker contact management system. On good ol' system 9
this allowed me to click a button next to the contact's name to dial
the contact through the Mac's internal modem connected to the phone
line. Field's would record the contact's id, the time, date and
duration of the call and allow the user to select a dialling prefix.
Another field allows notes relating to that phone call to be taken
while the conversation is taking place.
With OS X all that has changed. However, so has the business
environment. Nowadays I make more phone calls using my mobile phone,
which is a SonyEricsson t68i on Orange (UK). Apple's clever Address
Book app together with Jaguar's bluetooth implementation allows me to
dial them from Address Book in a similar way to my old contact
management solution. The problem is that Address Book isn't all that
extensible. I would have to deal with two apps simultaneously to get
the functionality I want and that's quite aside from all the data
synchronisation issues.
What would be ideal (obviously) would be to employ an applescript
embedded within my Filemaker solution to obtain the number I wish to
dial together with any access codes, initiate the phone call over
bluetooth and take me to my nice familiar phone call notes screen.
Are any clever applescripters out there aware of a way that I can
access the same bluetooth dialling functionality as is obtainable via
Address Book, either by addressing Address Book in the Applescript (I
don't mind synchronising Filemaker's contacts with Address Book's if
that helps) or indeed addressing the bluetooth functionality at a
system level?
Looking forward to receiving any suggestions anybody might have.
Tommy Beavitt
PS. It would be great to choose EITHER to dial over bluetooth/mobile
or internal modem/fixed line...
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