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Re: RFC: How to communicate with Addressbook
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Re: RFC: How to communicate with Addressbook


  • Subject: Re: RFC: How to communicate with Addressbook
  • From: David Rehring <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:15:12 -0800

On 2/21/02 2:30 PM, Markus Guske at email@hidden wrote:

> I want to get the entries from addressbook and their values. E.g.: name,
> phone number and so on.
>
> I surfed around, but didn't find any answer how to access the
> addressbook database directly or via calling any operation from
> addressbook.
>
> Is it impossible, or does anybody know how to do that.
> Any hints are appreciated.
>
> Can anybody help?

What some people have done is to parse the information passed via
drag-n-drop from the AddressBook.

That format is perhaps less fragile than using a private framework [well,
maybe :-) ]. However, it only works for getting information from the
AddressBook, not updating it.

Later,
--
David Rehring Psychos do not explode when light hits
Senior Software Engineer them, no matter how crazy they are...
Atimi Software, Inc.
www.atimi.com And totally insane guy!
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