Thanks again. Can you tell me where to fin the vCard format? I've looked in the Palm documentation and two Palm books I have and none have that format listed.
"Robert McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:63780@palm-dev-forum... > > John- > > Beaming to another Palm is done via the Exchange Manager -- much like > sending it to the address book application. You need to encode it to the > vCard standard prior to beaming. For maximum flexibility, I would give it > the vCard MIME type and NOT send it directly to address book. This would > give you interoperability with users who have address book replacements on > their devices. > > This process, by the way, has been made considerably easier on OS 4.0 by the > Personal Data Interchange libraries. These contain, essentially, the guts > of the transmit and receive code from the built-in applications in former OS > versions. I would look at the source code for the 4.0 address book (in the > 4.0 sdk) to see how address book uses the PDI libraries to send vCard data > through the exchange manager (though to really understand this code, you > also need to understand how address book represents its data internally). > Note also that this address book code handles both transmit and receive (you > probably only want Xmit) and shares some non-trivial code between those two > (somewhat disparate) functionalities. > > -bob -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
