Re: How to interact with Address Book or Mail App
Re: How to interact with Address Book or Mail App
- Subject: Re: How to interact with Address Book or Mail App
- From: "Sven-S. Porst" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:20:06 +0100
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Well. If you had searched the archives you would know just about as much
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as the rest of us (except for the people making these things). As it is
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there is a private framework (called AddressServices no less). But since
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it's a private framework there is no documented ways of using. And to my
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knowledge noone had published information about successfully using it.
Looking at the capabilities of the current Address Book, I assume there
may be good reasons for Apple _not_ to publish the interface for it:
Firstly it's very simple in its current state, not allowing for multiple
addresses and arbitrary contact information types in a way that is
extendable by other applications (think of the PowerTalk address book!)
and secondly as every virus email that is sent by one of our Windows
friends/colleagues shows, you probably shouldn't have a publicly
available way to access address information unless you have, say,
keychain-style access control for it.
So perhaps Apple don't want to embarass themselves by prematurely
publicising a framework that isn't ready for prime time (but may well do
a good job in their 'private' use for the time being).
Anyway, I guess this is going a bit off-topic.
Sven
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