Address Book

General
1

Is the example: AddressBook suposed to work, or has been deprecated?
On my Mac the Address Book is called Contacts.

On latest MacOS 10.14.6 and latest Xojo 19, 1.1.don’t seem to work.

2

yes… it does not return any contacts…

3

it works for me on 10.11.6 and latest Xojo.

4

just found this

[quote]3

I heard back from a Developer Technical Support Engineer at Apple and he said:

“I’ve asked the engineering team about this and indeed, we have removed support for both compiled and AppleScript-based AddressBook plugins in Mojave 10.14.”[/quote]

5

You need to use CNContactStoreMBS from the MBS plugin. Even if I’m trying to be nice I can only call this monster insane.

6

In macOS 10.11, Apple introduced a new mechanism for accessing the “Address Book” / “Contacts”. I am not at my work 'puter, but I suspect that if you look through Feedback you’ll find requests to update to the newer API.

7

MacOS 10.14.6 and Xojo 2019r1.1

In my apps I succesfully retrieve data with this snippet:

[code]Dim book as AddressBook = System.AddressBook
Dim Contacts() as AddressBookContact = book.Contacts
Dim groups() as AddressBookGroup
dim theData as addressBookData

if UBound(Contacts) >= 0 then
dim a, aa, z, mSplit(), temp as string
For i as integer = 0 to Ubound(Contacts)
a = “”
a = contacts(i).firstname
aa = contacts(i).lastName
if a = “” and aa = “” then//avoid groups
else
if a <> “” then a = a + " "
if aa <> “” then a = a + aa
if a <> “” then a = trim(a) + " <"
z = “>”
end if
thedata = contacts(i).emailaddresses
//etcetera[/code]

I used to use an applescript to let users import only contacts they wished. It was very handy, but a couple of years ago I disposed of it because I foresaw that sooner or later MAS might force me to remove it. Thanks, Apple, for helping us cripple our apps.