AddressBook Mojave

Targets macOS
1

I have two applications which read AddressBook, they worked fine under El Capitan. I’m now under Mojave and I have to rebuild one of them.
They were in System Preferences : Security & Privacy : Privacy : Contacts .
I changed the Bundle Identifier, I don’t know if it the problem or not. But now, my App is not in System Preferences : Security & Privacy : Privacy : Contacts . And when I launch it and go to the menu which is suppose to read AddressBook, I have no AlertBox saying “App XXX try to access AddressBook. Allow ?”. My App read anything.
I tried to drag&drop my App in in System Preferences : Security & Privacy : Privacy : Contacts but I can’t.

CeBook = System.AddressBook CesGroupes = CeBook.Groups NbContacts = Ubound(CesGroupes) MsgBox "NbContacts = " + str(NbContacts)
NbContacts is -1 but I have Groups

I didn’t have any problem under El Capitan and I rebuild my application many times.

2

You have the usage strings in your info.plist?

And if you do code signing, you have the entitlement file included?

3

Thank you for your answer, but I’m not sure to understand the question.
Here is my info.plist :

[code]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

CFBundleExecutable ToroNess CFBundleName ToroNess CFBundleIdentifier fr.Toroco.ToroNess CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion 6.0 CFBundleVersion 1.0.3.0.0 CFBundleDevelopmentRegion en CFBundlePackageType APPL CFBundleSignature ???? NSHumanReadableCopyright ©2017-2019, Th. Robisson CFBundleShortVersionString 1.0.3 CFBundleIconFile App LSMinimumSystemVersion 10.10.0 NSHighResolutionCapable CFBundleSupportedPlatformsMacOSX [/code]

The BundleIdentifier was (in previous build) fr.ThROB.ToroNess .

4

NSContactsUsageDescription is missing.

see
https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2019-03-31/Required_keys_for_infoplist_fi

5

Ok, thank you very much Christian.
I added at the end (before the :

<key>NSContactsUsageDescription</key> <string></string>
But I have now to understand how to add it automatically when I build my app. I will read again the link you gave me.

6

@Thomas ROBISSON — Copy the Info.plist file you have edited into the folder containing your source code, then drag&drop it into your project. That’s it

Be careful though, I am not sure it will work if you specify an empty string as you did.

7

Thank you, I insert a Script BuildStep inspired from the exemple Christian gave in his webpage. At the same time, I search to resolve the problem of some of my applications which use AppleScript, and I found the answer in other thread (NSAppleEventsUsageDescription).
Then my script is :

If (CurrentBuildTarget = 7) or (CurrentBuildTarget = 16) Then ' Mac OS 32bit ou Mac OS 64bit
  Dim TpTextA, TpTextB, TpTxtErr as String ' https://www.mbsplugins.de/archive/2019-03-31/Required_keys_for_infoplist_fi
  
  TpTextA = CurrentBuildLocation + "/" + CurrentBuildAppName + ".app"
  
  TpTxtErr = ""
  
  ' Disable if no need
  TpTextB = DoShellCommand("/usr/bin/defaults write " + TpTextA + "/Contents/Info ""NSAppleEventsUsageDescription"" ""Modify folder window view, Add login item, Make alias, Select item.""")
  If not(TpTextB = "") Then
    If TpTxtErr = "" Then
      TpTxtErr = TpTextB
    Else
      TpTxtErr = TpTxtErr + EndOfLine + TpTextB
    End If
  End If
  
  ' Disable if no need
  TpTextB = DoShellCommand("/usr/bin/defaults write " + TpTextA + "/Contents/Info ""NSContactsUsageDescription"" ""Read Contacts in your AddressBook.""")
  If not(TpTextB = "") Then
    If TpTxtErr = "" Then
      TpTxtErr = TpTextB
    Else
      TpTxtErr = TpTxtErr + EndOfLine + TpTextB
    End If
  End If
  
  If not(TpTxtErr = "") Then Print(TpTxtErr)
End If

I don’t think I need CurrentBuildTarget = but in the other BuildStep Script I did, I wrote it because I found an exemple using it (long time ago).

9

the build script works but you could just edit a text file that is a plist and add it to your project and it will be incorporated

see http://documentation.xojo.com/topics/application_structure/mobile/using_a_plist.html

in your case the file might look like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM "file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd">
<plist version="0.9">
<dict>
<key> NSAppleEventsUsageDescription </key>
    <string>Modify folder window view, Add login item, Make alias, Select item.</string>
<key>NSContactsUsageDescription</key>
    <string>Read Contacts in your AddressBook.</string>
</dict>
</plist>
10

Or if you use App Wrapper, you can just add the string on the Privacy pane, with the Xojo integration in App Wrapper, this is also set for debugging.