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The KDE addressbook
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The kab API is a binary interface for application developers that want to
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use the users addressbook in their own applications. To use it, you have
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to link the binary of your program against "libkab.so", a DLL that exports
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kab's functions, and to include the header file "kabapi.h" in the KDE
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include directory into your sources.
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The documentation of the kab API is contained in the header file
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(kabapi.h), you can extract it by parsing the file with kdoc. The kab
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binary source directory in the tdeutils package contains a sample program
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that tries to explain some basic functions of the API. It is important
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that you report any bugs you find in the API or in the rest of kab to
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mirko@kde.org
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Since it is used in different other applications, and I cannot imagine all
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the possible situations that might occur. Read the file README for some
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details about the compiler environment you need to get this sources
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compiled. Most of the possible problems should by now already be solved
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automatically by the automake script, but you need, for example, a C++
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compiler that handles templates properly.
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Mirko Boehm, September 1998.
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