[Bitpim-devel] Phonebook/Calendar sync w/external programs?

[Steven P. <n9...@n9...>]

I'm just trying to get a feel for the direction things are going to 
sync the phonebook and calendar to external programs. I know Roger has 
been doing some work on getting into the Windows Address Book stuff, 
but on a quick once-over, I haven't seen any hints of beginnings of 
code in bitpim to deal with this.

I have wrapped methods in Python to allow the ability to interact with 
both AddressBook and iCal on MacOS X. I can retrieve/set information in 
both applications, but I'm not sure the best way to slip this into 
bitpim. (Actually, I have code that works, but to make it user friendly 
I should wrap it into modules that abstract the details to a simpler 
higher level API. My current approach is to use Python to wrap 
AppleScript to actually talk to the respective applications. Works 
pretty well in my initial testing.)

One thought I had on the phonebook was that you may not want to have 
your entire computer address book in the phone. Perhaps there should be 
a setting somewhere for a particular group name that gets synchronized? 
Just a thought...  Same thing with calendars... You can have multiple 
calendars in iCal, I suspect only one would synchronize to your phone.

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