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[Rubycocoa-talk] AddressBook and address labels

[Patrick H. <ph...@gm...>]

This is probably more of a cocoa question than a rubycocoa question,
so feel free to ignore me :-) I am trying to work with address book,
and at least at the moment I am stumped by labels in
AbMultiValueCoreDataWrapper. I expect to see "Home", but I get
"_$<Home>!$_".

Thanks for any help, pointers to docs, etc.
pth


require 'osx/cocoa'
include OSX
OSX.require_framework "AddressBook"

me = ABAddressBook.sharedAddressBook.me     # =>
#<OSX::ABPerson:0xbf3d8 class='ABPerson' id=0x514af0>
addr_info = me.valueForProperty("Address")  # =>
#<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0xbf04a
class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x51f0e0>
addr_info.labelAtIndex(0).to_s              # => "_$!<Home>!$_"
addr_info.identifierAtIndex(0).to_s         # =>
"E2E83CDE-3FE3-4F89-9EBD-1030C483A6D8"

Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] AddressBook and address labels

[Satoshi N. <sna...@in...>]

Hi,

The value comes from a constant, kABHomeLabel.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Reference/AddressBook/Classes/ABPerson_Class/Reference/Reference.html

Proof:

require 'osx/cocoa'
include OSX
OSX.require_framework "AddressBook"
puts KABWorkLabel
puts KABHomeLabel
puts KABOtherLabel

Result:

_$!<Work>!$_
_$!<Home>!$_
_$!<Other>!$_

--
Satoshi Nakagawa

On 2007/12/24, at 7:04, Patrick Hurley wrote:

> This is probably more of a cocoa question than a rubycocoa question,
> so feel free to ignore me :-) I am trying to work with address book,
> and at least at the moment I am stumped by labels in
> AbMultiValueCoreDataWrapper. I expect to see "Home", but I get
> "_$<Home>!$_".
>
> Thanks for any help, pointers to docs, etc.
> pth
>
>
> require 'osx/cocoa'
> include OSX
> OSX.require_framework "AddressBook"
>
> me = ABAddressBook.sharedAddressBook.me     # =>
> #<OSX::ABPerson:0xbf3d8 class='ABPerson' id=0x514af0>
> addr_info = me.valueForProperty("Address")  # =>
> #<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0xbf04a
> class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x51f0e0>
> addr_info.labelAtIndex(0).to_s              # => "_$!<Home>!$_"
> addr_info.identifierAtIndex(0).to_s         # =>
> "E2E83CDE-3FE3-4F89-9EBD-1030C483A6D8"
>
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Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] AddressBook and address labels

[Patrick H. <ph...@gm...>]

Thanks for the assistance, I have a followup question, which (to me at
least) appears to be a RubyCocoa question, but is probably my lack of
understanding of Cocoa. I am now trying to update addresses in the
Address Book using RubyCocoa. I have the following code, which based
on my reading of the documentation, I though would work, but alas no
luck.

require 'osx/cocoa'
include OSX
OSX.require_framework "AddressBook"

me = ABAddressBook.sharedAddressBook.me         # =>
#<OSX::ABPerson:0xbf9a0 class='ABPerson' id=0x536ef0>
addrs = me.valueForProperty("Address")          # =>
#<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0xbf5d6
class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x53b330>
addr = addrs.valueAtIndex(0)                    # =>
#<OSX::NSCFDictionary:0xbf22a class='NSCFDictionary' id=0x53fe30>
addr["Street"] = "1234 Anystreet"               # => "1234 Anystreet"
addr["Street"].to_s                             # => "1234 Anystreet"
addrs.replaceValueAtIndex_withValue(0, addr)    # =>
OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature
for selector 'replaceValueAtIndex:withValue:' of receiver
#<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0x1f2f2
class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x51e640>
# ab.save

Any help would be very appreciated,
Happy New Year
pth


On Dec 24, 2007 1:57 AM, Satoshi Nakagawa <sna...@in...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The value comes from a constant, kABHomeLabel.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Reference/AddressBook/Classes/ABPerson_Class/Reference/Reference.html
>
> Proof:
>
> require 'osx/cocoa'
> include OSX
> OSX.require_framework "AddressBook"
> puts KABWorkLabel
> puts KABHomeLabel
> puts KABOtherLabel
>
> Result:
>
> _$!<Work>!$_
> _$!<Home>!$_
> _$!<Other>!$_
>
> --
> Satoshi Nakagawa
>
>
> On 2007/12/24, at 7:04, Patrick Hurley wrote:
>
> > This is probably more of a cocoa question than a rubycocoa question,
> > so feel free to ignore me :-) I am trying to work with address book,
> > and at least at the moment I am stumped by labels in
> > AbMultiValueCoreDataWrapper. I expect to see "Home", but I get
> > "_$<Home>!$_".
> >
> > Thanks for any help, pointers to docs, etc.
> > pth
> >
> >
> > require 'osx/cocoa'
> > include OSX
> > OSX.require_framework "AddressBook"
> >
> > me = ABAddressBook.sharedAddressBook.me     # =>
> > #<OSX::ABPerson:0xbf3d8 class='ABPerson' id=0x514af0>
> > addr_info = me.valueForProperty("Address")  # =>
> > #<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0xbf04a
> > class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x51f0e0>
> > addr_info.labelAtIndex(0).to_s              # => "_$!<Home>!$_"
> > addr_info.identifierAtIndex(0).to_s         # =>
> > "E2E83CDE-3FE3-4F89-9EBD-1030C483A6D8"
> >
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Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] AddressBook and address labels

[Alpha C. <alp...@gm...>]

On Dec 31, 2007 6:50 AM, Patrick Hurley <ph...@gm...> wrote:
> addrs = me.valueForProperty("Address")          # =>
> #<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0xbf5d6
> class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x53b330>
> addr = addrs.valueAtIndex(0)                    # =>
> #<OSX::NSCFDictionary:0xbf22a class='NSCFDictionary' id=0x53fe30>
> addr["Street"] = "1234 Anystreet"               # => "1234 Anystreet"
> addr["Street"].to_s                             # => "1234 Anystreet"
> addrs.replaceValueAtIndex_withValue(0, addr)    # =>
> OSX::OCMessageSendException: Can't get Objective-C method signature
> for selector 'replaceValueAtIndex:withValue:' of receiver
> #<OSX::ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper:0x1f2f2
> class='ABMultiValueCoreDataWrapper' id=0x51e640>
> # ab.save

Try using addrs = addrs.mutableCopy to get an ABMutableMultiValue that
you can modify. You'll probably need to use me.setValue_forProperty to
write the changes back to the person record.

Also, you should probably be using the KABAddressProperty constant to
access the addresses in the me.valueForProperty method.

Regards,
Alpha

Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] AddressBook and address labels

[Patrick H. <ph...@gm...>]

On Dec 31, 2007 11:54 AM, Alpha Chen <alp...@gm...> wrote:
> Try using addrs = addrs.mutableCopy to get an ABMutableMultiValue that
> Alpha
>

Thanks that was perfect
pth

Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] AddressBook and address labels

[Patrick H. <ph...@gm...>]

Just to show I am not a complete help vampire, here
(http://pastie.textmate.org/private/fkshzuztdn1aai1x8j7sw) is a
semi-handy Ruby script to process your address book, finding any
entries without phone numbers, but with an address. It then goes out
to anywho.com and looks up the phone number and adds it to your
address book.

If you are curious I managed to import my xmas card list into address
book and used it for my mailing this year, but did not have phone
numbers, now I do.

Thanks everyone for your help,
pth