Monkeybread Xojo (Real Studio) plugin

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ABMultiValueMBS class

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Console & Web	iOS
class	Addressbook	MBS MacCocoa Plugin	7.1	Yes	No	No	Yes, macOS only	No

Function: Represents values of type ABMultiXXXXXProperty.
Example:

// shows all websites with labels

dim a as new ABAddressBookMBS
dim p as ABPersonMBS = a.owner
dim m as ABMultiValueMBS = p.valueForProperty(a.kABURLsProperty)

dim u as Integer = m.count-1
for i as Integer = 0 to u
  dim label as string = m.labelAtIndex(i)
  dim value as string = m.valueAtIndex(i)
  
  MsgBox label+" -> "+value
next

Notes:
All values in an ABMultiValue must be of the same type (kABMultiStringProperty: all values must be strings....)

In case your application needs to store away a reference to a specific value/label pair, use the identifier. Index won't work in this case because any client can add/remove/reorder a multivalue making your index point to the wrong pair. Identifiers are unique Ids.

All methods in this class will catch exceptions from Cocoa and raise a NSExceptionMBS instead. Using the message, name and reason properties you can see what was the reason for this exception. Please report if you find a method which does not handle exceptions correct.
This is an abstract class. You can't create an instance, but you can get one from various plugin functions.

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7 properties
- property Addressbook as ABAddressBookMBS
- property Content as Dictionary
- property count as Integer
- property Description as string
- property Handle as Integer
- property primaryIdentifier as string
- property propertyType as Integer
14 methods
- method Constructor
- method copy as ABMultiValueMBS
- method edit as ABMutableMultiValueMBS
- method identifierAtIndex(index as UInt32) as string
- method identifiers as string()
- method indexForIdentifier(identifier as string) as UInt32
- method indexForLabel(label as string) as UInt32
- method labelAtIndex(index as UInt32) as string
- method labelForIdentifier(identifier as string) as string
- method labels as string()
- method valueAtIndex(index as UInt32) as Variant
- method valueForIdentifier(identifier as string) as Variant
- method valueForLabel(label as string) as Variant
- method values as Variant()

Sub classes:

class ABMutableMultiValueMBS

Some examples which use this class:

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The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS MacCocoa Plugin.

ABGroupMBS - ABMutableMultiValueMBS