On iOS you would be looking for ABPersonCopyLocalizedPropertyName() on the Mac
you would be looking for ABCopyLocalizedPropertyOrLabel().
-Richard
On 13/09/2012, at 9:33:06 PM, Erik Stainsby <erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca> wrote:
> I understand that ABAddressBook methods are concerned with ABPerson and
> ABGroup entities, subclasses of ABRecord.
> However, the ABMultiValue collections are less intuitive. Among these are
> stored the (potentially) multiple instances of addresses, phone numbers and
> email addresses. For each instance of user supplied data, a multiValue
> object can store - in properties keyed with kABXxxx keys - arbitrary labels:
> home, work, iPhone, mobile, etc. The documentation leaves much to be
> desired, but in particular, I cannot glean how to retrieve a user-supplied
> string from a given multiValue object.
>
> Some code:
>
> Given some address, stored in an ABMultiValue object, such that:
>
> - (void) unwrapMV:(ABMultiValue*)mv atIndex:(int)index {
>
> NSString * _uuid = [mv identifierAtIndex:index];
> NSString * _label = [mv labelForIdentifier:[mv
> identifierAtIndex:index]];
> NSDictionary * _dict = [mv valueAtIndex:index];
> // am I the identified primary entry?
> BOOL _primary = ([mv primaryIdentifier] == self.uuid)?
> YES: NO;
>
> NSLog( @"%@", _label) ;
> }
>
> produces _$!<Home>!$_,
> or one of the other variants of the actual value of the key, not the value it
> refers to.
>
> Clearly I am failing to understand where these strings are being stored.
>
> Erik Stainsby
> erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca
>
>
> On 2012-09-13, at 9:04 PM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2012 Sep 13, at 19:45, Erik Stainsby <erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> So the AddressBook framework's xxxLabel keys render out as strings encoded
>>> like so: _$!<Home>!$_, _$!<Work>!$_, _$!<Mobile>!$_ Is there framework
>>> method I am meant to use with the property keys kABHomeLabel, kABWorkLabel,
>>> etc, to render a legible text outcome
>>
>> Maybe you're looking for -[ABRecord valueForProperty:]. Note that
>> ABAddressBook methods typically return ABPerson objects, and ABPerson
>> inherits from ABRecord.
>>
>> If that doesn't explain it, post some code.
>>
>>
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