Re: i need some better way to search addressbook by number from my application

[Michal Seliga]

update. it seems that duplicate records are not problem. problem was that the
number was *51. it seems that if number uses some of characters *#+ the its not
found...

is there any way ho to make it work?

Michal Seliga wrote:
> at the moment i use this code to search addressbook for contact by phone 
> number 
> 
> callback:
> static Boolean LookupCallback(void* ref)
> {
>     return false;
> }
> 
> AddrCallerIDParamsType params;
> SysNotifyParamType notify;
> 
> MemSet(&notify,sizeof(SysNotifyParamType),0);
> MemSet(&params,sizeof(AddrCallerIDParamsType),0);
> notify.notifyType=addrAppNotificationCmdCallerID;
> notify.notifyDetailsP=&params;
> params.lookupString="some phone number";
> params.callback=LookupCallback;
> CallWithCommand(sysFileTApplication,kPalmOneCreatorIDContacts,sysAppLaunchCm
> if(params.uniqueID)
> {
> //found
> }
> else
> {
> //notfound
> }
> 
> problem is that with this code contact is found only if i have it only once 
> (when result is unique). for example if i have contact both in SIM 
> addressbook and in real addresbook it will return that it didn't found 
> anything
> 
> for what i need it would be good if i could persuade address aplication to 
> return uid of first contact which matches and doesn't care about how many of 
> them would match
> 
> i am sure its possible..but how?
> 
> all this is tested on treo650 so i need something what works there
> 

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