In Panther there is a AddressBook Pallete for InterfaceBuilder that displays the AddressBook Content like in Mail, and iCal. It provides a view known as the people picker.

http://www.Monkeyfood.com/thestuff/food/Screenshots/AddressBookIcon.jpg

Classes that relate to the AddressBook:

• ABAddressBook
• ABGroup
• ABPerson
• ABRecord
• ABMultiValue
• ABMutableMultiValue
• ABSearchElement

Tip - HowToOpenAddressBook from your application, AddressBookNameOrder

MacDevCenter has an article about the AddressBook in the “Learning Cocoa” column: (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/27/cocoa.html?page=1)

Sharing addresses with OS X 10.2 server via LDAP: http://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/emailsharing.html

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AddressBook is built off of the MetaKit.