Programmatically Invoking Contact Editor

[Kip Warner]

Greetings,

I have a pointer to an EContact in an application I am working on and
I'd like to progmatically invoke the contact editor GUI in Evolution
with this EContact loaded in it.

Can this be done, and if so, what steps are required? I took a look at
the Evolution API reference and I could find a lot on the EDS aspect,
but nothing on interacting with the GUI itself.

Thanks.

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[Matthew Barnes]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:08 -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
> I have a pointer to an EContact in an application I am working on and
> I'd like to progmatically invoke the contact editor GUI in Evolution
> with this EContact loaded in it.
>
> Can this be done, and if so, what steps are required? I took a look at
> the Evolution API reference and I could find a lot on the EDS aspect,
> but nothing on interacting with the GUI itself.

In theory you should be able to pass the EContact's URI as a
command-line option to Evolution to invoke the editor, but I'm not
certain if this works at the moment.

Looking at the code that handles the URI, it seems to expect a
contact:// scheme and "source-uid" and "contact-uid" parameters, but I
don't have an example handy.  Hopefully the EContact's URI gives you
something close to that form.  You'll have to play around with it.

Matthew Barnes


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[Kip Warner]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:24 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:

>
> In theory you should be able to pass the EContact's URI as a
> command-line option to Evolution to invoke the editor, but I'm not
> certain if this works at the moment.
>
> Looking at the code that handles the URI, it seems to expect a
> contact:// scheme and "source-uid" and "contact-uid" parameters, but I
> don't have an example handy.  Hopefully the EContact's URI gives you
> something close to that form.  You'll have to play around with it.
>
> Matthew Barnes

Thanks Matt. I've found the contact-uid by querying the EContact pointer
via e_contact_get_const(contact, E_CONTACT_UID), but I can't seem to
find the "source-uid" anywhere.

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[Milan Crha]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 16:41 -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
> Thanks Matt. I've found the contact-uid by querying the EContact
> pointer via e_contact_get_const(contact, E_CONTACT_UID), but I can't
> seem to find the "source-uid" anywhere.

        Hi,
source-uid is the UID of an EBook you've your contact stored in. If it's
just the contact not stored in any EBook, then no such thing is
possible.
        Bye,
        Milan

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[Kip Warner]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 09:22 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> Hi,
> source-uid is the UID of an EBook you've your contact stored in. If
> it's
> just the contact not stored in any EBook, then no such thing is
> possible.
>         Bye,
>         Milan

Thanks Milan. I figured it out.

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