Re: birth date from Address Book
Re: birth date from Address Book
- Subject: Re: birth date from Address Book
- From: Darwin Zins <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:26:52 -0600
I am finding that going through the address book is excruciatingly
slow. Would using properties speed this up? When you get the
properties does it copy all the properties of the current person in to
your variable?
What if you need to update that field in the address book? Can you do:
set last name of theProp to "MyName"
Or will that just update it in a local copy and not actually update the
address book?
It is so slow though that it would be worthwhile to probably go through
and check if each property is different and only update the address
book if it is different. That would be a lot more code (right now I
just update all the fields from the fields in the Zaurus address book
if sync'ing from the Zaurus), but if it would speed it up it would be
well worth it.
Thanks,
Darwin
No. That works fine but it's more long-winded than getting
'properties'. I
already stated that setting a variable to birthdate, then trying to
access
the variable, is the other way to do it, and I find it a lot more
trouble to
remember to do every single time. (Aside from the fact that you didn't
answer the question since you provided a string form for month where he
wanted a numeral). And 'properties' is extremely useful, and quick,
when you
need several properties, so it should not be dismissed as you do.
In the guise of being "helpful", you invariably seem to want to turn
things
into an antagonistic contest, John. I suppose I could forgive that if
you
really were a cantankerous old codger of 87 but I don't believe it
for a
minute. ;-) Just maybe 1961.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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