Re: [Bitpim-devel] Re: [bitpim-cvs-checkins] bitpim com_sanyo.py,1.37,1.38

[Stephen W. <sa...@us...>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 02:14, Roger Binns wrote:
> > Spell beginning correctly.
> 
> Gotta have standards :-)
I am now breaking the standard!

> 
> 
> So the Sanyo really doesn't like duplicate names?
No, the Sanyo is fine with duplicate names.  It just needs to be told
how to sort.  When there was a duplicate, I would write N entries to the
phone, but the tables that have the sort order would only have N-1
entries, causing the phone to do something funny when you try to look at
entry N-1.  I just didn't know how to sort lists with duplicates.

>   BTW how
> do you identify entries.
>   For example if you read in "John Doe"
> from the phone, change it to "Jane Doe" in BitPim and write back
> out again, do you do any correlation to the existing "John Doe"?
> 
There is no serial number like the LG phones.  There is a slot number,
0-299.  I put that slot number in the serial1 field.  When writing out,
I use that number as the slot, if it is in range.  Otherwise I pick an
unused slot.  So, I think  if I read "John Doe", edit it, and write it
back out, it will go into the same slot.  If I delete it in BitPim, then
create a new "John Doe", it won't necessarily go back to the same slot. 
> (For the LG phones, each entry has a serial and the voice/speed
> dials are tagged to those.  Consequently BitPim goes to great
> lengths to remember the serials and use them again on writing
> out.  Note that the voice/speed dials are not part of the
> information you get when reading the phonebook).
I read the speed dial information, but not the voice dial.

			Stephen