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This page was last modified 08:28, 8 December 2007.

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There are plenty of occasions when you need to add contacts from Phonebook to your Symbian C++ application. Examples are SMS, Call Control applications etc. To do that you have to first load the phonebook's resource file like

RPbkViewResourceFile phonebookResource( *(CEikonEnv::Static()) );
phonebookResource.OpenL();

In general you would want to allow users to fetch multiple entries from the phonebook dialog so you can use CPbkMultipleEntryFetchDlg and pass the correct parameters. Also attach the correct Phonebook Contact Engine to the dialog. (Here I am picking the default contact book, whereas you may want to display your own special contact book database.) The code may look like

CPbkMultipleEntryFetchDlg::TParams params;
CleanupStack::PushL(params);
 
CPbkContactEngine* iPbkContactEngine = 
   CPbkContactEngine::NewL(&iEikonEnv->FsSession());
CleanupStack::PushL(iPbkContactEngine);
params.iContactView = &iPbkContactEngine->AllContactsView();
 
CPbkMultipleEntryFetchDlg* fetcher = 
   CPbkMultipleEntryFetchDlg::NewL(params, *iPbkContactEngine);
fetcher->SetMopParent(this);

Later just execute the dialog. On return, the dialog will give you a list of contact ids with which you can access individually selected contacts from Contact Engine and process them

TBuf<30> phoneNumber;
 
TInt paramCount = params.iMarkedEntries->Count();
// Get the selected contacts id array
for ( TInt i = 0; i < paramCount; ++i )
{
	const TContactItemId cid = ( *params.iMarkedEntries )[i];
	// Open the selected contact using Phonebook engine,
	// choose correct number (launch list query if needed)
	CPbkContactItem* pbkItem = iPbkContactEngine->ReadContactLC( cid );
	TPbkContactItemField* tmp;
	if ((tmp = pbkItem->FindField(EPbkFieldIdPhoneNumberMobile)) != NULL)
	{
		phoneNumber = tmp->Text();
		if(phoneNumber.Length() > 0){
			if(iData)
	                      iAppView->AddNumber(phoneNumber);
		}
	}
 
        CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(1);//CPbkContactItem
}

In the end clean up your stack and close phonebook resource

//CPbkContactEngine, CPbkMultipleEntryFetchDlg::TParams
CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(2);
phonebookResource.Close();