RE: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book
RE: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book
- Subject: RE: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book
- From: "Kenny Millar" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 18:39:59 +0100
- Organization: Kenny Millar
>> Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Ed., by James Duncan Davidson.
>>Sounds like I need to start digging into this one.
I really don't know why this book is 'ADC Reccommended' No offence to Mr
Davidson, but it's not great. A much better book would be Aaron Hillegass'
book.
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[mailto:cocoa-dev-bounces+kennymillar=email@hidden] On Behalf Of
Brad Bumgarner
Sent: 02 May 2006 18:33
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Subject: Re: Newbe Question: Searching Address Book
Warner,
I have 2 books at this point:
Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan. I have focused on
this book as of now as it starts off with C and then gets into obj-c.
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Ed., by James Duncan Davidson.
Sounds like I need to start digging into this one.
I THOUGHT searching the address book WOULD be a easy way to get my
feet wet (so to speak) :-)
Thanks,
Brad Bumgarner, CTA
On May 2, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Warner Onstine wrote:
> Hi Brad,
> Objective-C is like any other language in that it takes steps to
> learn the syntax, method calls, logic, etc. When I started out, I
> initially picked up the Hillegass book (Cocoa Programming for OS X)
> which is very good, but was also a little confusing for me. I then
> picked up the James Duncan Davidson book (Learning Cocoa and
> Objective-C) which helped me to understand some of the material and
> get my feet wet gradually.
>
> You can also look at apple's docs on Objective-C here:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
> ObjectiveC/index.html
>
> And here are some other basic Objective-C tutorials on the apple site
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/ObjectiveCLanguage-
> date.html
>
> Good luck! It's a lot of fun once you start figuring it out (I have
> thoroughly enjoyed Duncan's book and the exercises at the end of
> each chapter were enough to stretch me to start looking at the API).
>
> -warner
>
> On May 2, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Brad Bumgarner wrote:
>
>> It can be very difficult to learn a language on your own. I was/am
>> hoping that someone here can help me learn how to write obj-c
>> code. I have read the Address Book documentation the comes with
>> Xcode and I just can't figure how to put all the pieces to
>> together. I know what I want to do can be done, Mail.app does it
>> all the time. If I wasn't clear in the wording of my question,
>> please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brad Bumgarner, CTA
>>
>>
>> On May 1, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Brad Bumgarner wrote:
>>
>>> My name is Brad Bumgarner and I am new to Objective-C. I have
>>> been using AppleScript since it was first introduced many (many)
>>> "moons" ago. I have been using Project Builder / Xcode since OS X
>>> 10.2. I have recently decided to step up to using Objective-C so
>>> that I may add features to my apps that I can't do (the way I'd
>>> like to) in AppleScript Studio. The scary thing is Objective-C is
>>> actually starting to make sense :-)
>>>
>>> My question: How can I search for a name in Address Book? I want
>>> to be able to search for first names, last names and both first/
>>> last names. I want to be able to do this much like Mail.app does.
>>> The code below (attached to a text field via AppleScript's "on
>>> changed" handler) works until a space character is entered.
>>> "theName" is passed from the applescript code and contains the
>>> currently entered text from the text field as it is being entered.
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