Re: address book
Re: address book
- Subject: Re: address book
- From: Brad Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:25:07 -0600
Kirk,
Thanks for the info. The reason I have started with the Address Book
is out of necessity. My employer is looking to me to incorporate
Address Book functionality into an app (that I wrote in AppleScript
Studio) WITHOUT opening the Address Book each time the app is ran.
Unfortunately AppleScript Studio programming WILL open launch the
Address Book each time it's ran.
I do have AppKido. Although I have to admit I forget to open it. I'll
learn as I use this technology more (I hope) :-)
Brad Bumgarner, CTA
On May 2, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Kirk Kerekes wrote:
I wouldn't start out with Address Book -- the API is weakly
documented and somewhat non-intuitive. Figure out how to do some
simple things in Cocoa first, so you aren't trying to swallow too
much at once.
Address Book is basically a free-form object-oriented database
where no two records are required to have the same structure. When
you start out with it, it is very difficult to figure out where to
begin -- and that's assuming that you are already Cocoa-familiar.
And get AppKido (freeware Cocoa docs browser) -- the ability to
rapidly browse and search the API documentation is a godsend when
you are dealing with as huge an API as Cocoa. I've been coding in
Cocoa for half a decade now, and I still look up anything I don't
use it all the time. Saves a lot of re-coding.
You also might check out <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/
UserExperience/Conceptual/AddressBook/AddressBook.pdf>
-- which has sample code
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