Re: more AddressBook annoyance

[Charles Yeomans <yeomans at desuetude dot com>]

On Aug 29, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Jonathan Johnson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Yeomans" <yeomans at desuetude dot com>
> To: "REALbasic NUG" <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 3:41 PM
> Subject: more AddressBook annoyance
>
>
> > Has anyone without knowledge of the Rb AddressBook classes been able 
> > to
> > edit an AddressBookContact?  It seems like code like the following
> > should work.
> >
> > theContact.LastName.Value(0) = changedContact.LastName.Value(0)
> Hmm.. That does seem like it should work. However, I should point out 
> that
> AddressBookData has an automatic Operator_Convert to string, which
> automatically grabs the 0th value. For items that can't have more than 
> one
> value, it's perfectly valid to use. I can imagine why the above doesn't
> work, but I think it's a bug.
>
> For now, you can use this:
>
> theContact.LastName = changedContact.LastName.Value
>
> > But the AddressBook.HasUnsavedChanges property remains false.
> I've noticed that Apple doesn't report unsaved changes sometimes. It 
> depends
> on the operation, in my experience.
The operation above appears to be one such.

Charles Yeomans



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