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Re: How to check if Address Book has changed?
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Re: How to check if Address Book has changed?


  • Subject: Re: How to check if Address Book has changed?
  • From: Brad <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 23:37:00 -0700

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Yuhui wrote:

Hi,

Is there any way to check if changes have been made to Address Book (AB)? I have an app that uses AB and I want to set it up so that when the user updates AB, my app knows about the change/s and updates itself automatically. I searched AB.framework but there doesn't seem to be any notification or messages sent by AB.

I could use AB's hasUnsavedChanges: method, but that raises another question: when I make a change to AB, is the change saved (a) immediately, (b) when I stop editing the card, or (c) when I quit AB? If it's (b), then I could use hasUnsavedChanges:, and if it's (c), then I could use NSWorkspace. But if it's (a), then hasUnsavedChanges: would return NO as if no changes have been made, and I'll be stuck.


You can register to listen for the kABDatabaseChangedExternallyNotification. I think that's what you're looking for. When ever a change is made to the AB database it'll notify your app and you can do what ever updating that's needed.

Brad
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