Re: Phonebook behaviour question

[Pawel Kot]

Hi Bastien,

2005/8/1, Bastien Nocera <address@hidden>:
> When saving phonebook entries, the phone can only fit one phone
> number/e-mail per SIM or memory entry.
> So when adding phone entries, I add the first one at the place that
> gnokii or the vCard recommends. For the second one, I add it to the
> first free entry on the memory.

Under the same name? Or under what name?

> The phone will then collapse those if necessary depending on whether a
> number if the primary one or not, and using the name in the phone entry
> as the key.

How will the phone know whether it is a primary number or not? How
will it appear in the phone?

> Now what do I do for reading phone entries?
> 1) Return one phonebook entry per memory entry, losing data about the
> primary phone number.
> 2) Get the phone entry at the location, find the entries with the same
> name, add those to my phonebook entry data returned to the application.
> What do I do when a non-primary entry is asked for? What do I delete
> when asked to empty a specific location?

You are talking about some kind of the synchronization? IMHO libgnokii
shouldn't care about it at all. But...
As far as I understand this is some kind of a new behaviour. I'm
afraid that retrieving all the entries every time is completly
unefficient. Maybe there's some kind of link between these entries?
Does the phone really show it under one name? How fast is browsing the
phonebook (large one)?

take care,
pkot
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Pawel Kot
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