Re: searching for a contact in the phonebook

[Scott Erickson]

below is a past post i found.  I gave it a try.  But the &resault arg sent 
to the address book always comes back as null, and i dont see where you can 
add in the phone number to search for???

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Re: contact lookup not working on T650
palmDev
Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:37:17 -0800

no. the way i did it uses the treo launch codes.
if i use the standard PhoneNumberLookupCustom() then it works fine but
then it only displays one define lookup field eg: Home where as the below
code lets you select from all the voice numbers.

here is the lookup function for the treo

   DmSearchStateType searchState;
    UInt16 cardNo;
    LocalID dbID;
 UInt32 result;

 Char     *textP = "Phone lookup",
       *addP = "Add";
 AddrLookupParamsType params;
 SysNotifyParamType  notify;
 AddrHsLookupUserDataType data;

 MemSet(&params, sizeof(params), 0);


 params.pasteButtonText = addP;
 params.title = textP;
 params.field1 = addrLookupSortField;
 params.field2 = addrLookupVoicePhones;
 params.field2Optional = true;
 params.userShouldInteract = true;
    params.formatStringP = "^voicephone";


 data.version = 0;
 data.useMultiFilter = false;

    notify.notifyType = addrAppNotificationHsLookup;
    notify.notifyDetailsP = &params;
    notify.userDataP = &data;

    // launch the contact app and pass the parameters

     if (!DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator(true, &searchState,
       sysFileTApplication, sysFileCAddress, false, &cardNo, &dbID))
         SysAppLaunch(cardNo, dbID, 0, sysAppLaunchCmdNotify,  &notify,
&result);

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Scott Erickson
Software Engineer, FB-4, Inc.
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"Scott Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Ive been trying to figure this out for sometime now, there isnt anything i 
> can find in the docs that has helped me.  I need to take the phone number 
> of a received SMS and find out if its in the phone book or not.  If it is, 
> the SMS will go thru, if not its going to be blocked.  How can I access 
> the phone book without simply taking the database the contacts are in and 
> searching each record for a string matching the senders number?  I dont 
> what to do it that way b/c the info about the database the contacts are 
> stored it may change or be different on some devices (creatorID, database 
> name...).
>
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>
> Scott Erickson
> Software Engineer, FB-4, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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