AddressBook Framework/Structure
AddressBook Framework/Structure
- Subject: AddressBook Framework/Structure
- From: Larry Vincent <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:04:16 -0700
Hello all,
A bit of a newbie to Cocoa on this end. I'm working on an application
that is essentially an applied database. In working with the Apple
AddressBook API I was intrigued by the way it appears to efficiently
use global property names to save and retrieve record data (all of the
standard properties are defined in ABGlobals.h as extern pointer
constants. From my review of the header files, it looks like there are
three simple routines for accessing record data (valueForProperty,
setValue, and removeValueForProperty). Since I don't have access to the
implementation files, I don't really understand what the application is
doing - how it translates the global variable into the object to be
archived and vice versa. Does anyone have more insight on how
AddressBook manages records? My interest is to replicate a similar,
efficient database methodology for my app.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Larry
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