Contact Conversion Rewrite I finally finished rewriting the code to convert contacts as it was overly complicated and some code was duplicated a few times. Along the way I was greeted with an error message I’ve never seen: Error: XML descendants internal method called on incompatible Object The cause: I Read more…
The extra attributes added by gContactSync (ThirdEmail, FourthEmail, (Google)TalkScreenName, YahooScreenName, MSNScreenName, ICQScreenName, JabberScreenName, OtherAddress, OtherNumber, HomeFaxNumber, and Groups) are now easily viewed and should be indistinguishable from regular attributes in the GUI, but the extra properties will not be copied/moved with the card unless you have the patch for 413260 Read more…
I recently decided to support Thunderbird 2 (specifically 2.0.0.14 and above), but only had basic sync support (only the original attributes were synced) until figuring out a few bugs today. As of now, the extension fully supports Thunderbird 2, 3, and 3 with the patch for Bug 413260 applied. The Read more…
As of 2 minutes ago, my extension now appears to work in Thunderbird 2 after some fun with nsIEnumerator and nsISupportsArray. The array documentation didn’t show the AppendElement method which, combined with [notxpcom] and [noscript] caused me a headache until I tried it. It also works in Thunderbird 3 with Read more…
After receiving a comment on a previous blog post, I added some preferences and redesigned my preferences dialog. It now has three tabs: Main, Extended, and Address. The wording and layout of the preferences will probably change, but any feedback is welcome. Main Tab All of the main preferences. Name Read more…
After a little bit of programming last night (early this morning, actually) and this afternoon, I can now sync every attribute of an Address Book card that is visible in the Edit Card Dialog and then some. So, here is the most recent list of attributes synced from Address Book Read more…
I have almost finished adding some new attributes to the address book that can be synced with Google. The attributes will work on cards whether they are in the address book being synced or not. The catch: It requires the current patch to Bug 413260, which is temporarily delayed. The Read more…
Refactoring Since the last update, I have finished refactoring all of my code except for the code that converts contacts from one format to the other to make it more object-oriented. Bug 413260 I have applied the most recent patch in Bug 413260, which, among many other things, removes specific Read more…
Introduction Thunderbird stores addresses using 6 fields: 2 lines for the address, the city, the state, the zip code, and the country. Google stores addresses in one field (supports multiple lines). Since these two differ so greatly, it is difficult to synchronize addresses properly. Possible Solution(s): Splitting the address with Read more…
I wanted to test some Unicode characters to see if they would sync properly. So, I made up an e-mail address: üḯǟôÕ@host.com. The e-mail address synced without any error messages, but when I tried to edit the contact in Gmail I was given the following error: “Please enter a valid Read more…