Not that I'll ever get around to it, but I am so upset with the fact that my Palm Tungsten C cannot wirelessly sync with my Mac I was thinking about writing my own software to do it. A quick search on Google turned up the following bit of Perl (my language of choice) that would at very least let me access the AddressBook in OS X. I'll record it here for posterity as a step in the right direction.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use Mac::Glue qw(:glue);
use Mac::Apps::Launch;
my $glue=Mac::Glue->new('Address Book',bundle=>'com.apple.AddressBook');
my $id=$glue->{ID};
if(!IsRunning($id)) {
LaunchApps($glue->{ID}) or die $^E;
$glue->close($glue->prop('window')) or warn $^E;
}
my $q=shift;
print "Querying AddressBook...\n";
my [at]people=$glue->obj('people')->get;
foreach my $entry (@people) {
my [at]emails=$entry->prop('email')->get;
next unless [at]emails;
foreach my $email (@emails) {
my $addr=$email->prop('value')->get;
my $name=$entry->prop('name')->get;
print "$addr\t$name\t",$email->prop('label')->get,"\n"
if $name =~ /$q/ || $addr =~ /$q/;
}
# my($addr)=$entry->prop('address')->get;
# next unless $addr;
# print $addr->prop('street')->get,"\n";
# print $addr->prop('city')->get," ";
# print $addr->prop('state')->get," ";
# print $addr->prop('zip')->get,"\n";
}
exit 0;
If anyone happens upon this page and already knows of software or code that allows for network sync with Macs, please leave a comment!
UPDATE: fixed my code listing using this script: SimpleCode
