[starman]

Subject says it all. Address Book tells you that you missed a call, but what tells you that one is incoming? Thanks.

Mike

[cpac]

Originally posted by starman:
Subject says it all. Address Book tells you that you missed a call, but what tells you that one is incoming? Thanks.

Mike

I believe address book is supposed to notify you of incoming calls as well.

From AB help:

Receiving calls from your cell phone

If both your computer and cellular phone are Bluetooth-enabled, and you have paired both devices using the Bluetooth pane of System Preferences, Address Book will notify you of incoming calls.

When you receive a phone call, a window appears showing the caller's number. If the caller is in your Address Book, his or her name is also shown.

To answer the call, do one of the following:

To speak to the caller, click Answer, then pick up your cell phone.
Click "Send to Voicemail" to stop your phone from ringing and allow the caller to leave a message. This is the same as pressing the Voicemail button on your cell phone.
To send the caller to voicemail and create a new Short Message Service (SMS) message to reply to the caller, click Send SMS Reply. This is a handy way to silence the incoming call but still reply to the caller without disturbing others. Make sure the caller's phone can receive SMS messages. If it can't, you will not be notified.

The Address Book application must be open for you to be notified of incoming calls. Depending on the caller's location, the number displayed by Address Book might be formatted differently than you expect.

For more information about pairing Bluetooth devices or using Bluetooth, open Bluetooth File Exchange, located in Applications/Utilities, and choose Help > Bluetooth Help.

[spiky_dog]

address book is indeed _supposed_ to do the trick: click on the bluetooth icon in address book.

[Spheric Harlot]

If I have the Address Book aware of my phone, it will pop up a little window giving me the caller ID as soon as the phone rings.

I have the options of accepting the call, denying it, or replying via SMS.

-s*

[Nebagakid]

doesn't SMS cost money to the person who sends it... or is it receives it?

too bad Address Book has to be opened, maybe there is a way for someone to do it without the app having to be opened.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by cpac:
I believe address book is supposed to notify you of incoming calls as well.

From AB help:

It does.

[Amorya]

Originally posted by Nebagakid:
doesn't SMS cost money to the person who sends it... or is it receives it?

Sends it, but it's only 10p (maximum) per message. I pay £1.50 per month for 50 messages. Thinking of upgrading to £4.50 for 200 as I use a fair few.

Amorya

[starman]

Ok, here's the problem - it doesn't bring itself to the front when the call comes in. If it's behind Safari, I never see the message.

Mike

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by starman:
Ok, here's the problem - it doesn't bring itself to the front when the call comes in. If it's behind Safari, I never see the message.

Yeah.

It used to pop to the front before Panther.

-s*

[Truepop]

that's very cool. I didn't know Address Book would do this. Why don't more cell phones or cordless house phones support bluetooth?

[starman]

This is so screwed up.

In Address Book, it works, but the app doesn't come to the front.

In Salling Clicker, it USED TO work, but broke in the latest release and won't be coming back.

Ummmm...

I guess it's time to do a little reading on the Bluetooth API.

Mike

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by starman:
This is so screwed up.

In Address Book, it works, but the app doesn't come to the front.

In Salling Clicker, it USED TO work, but broke in the latest release and won't be coming back.

Ummmm...

I guess it's time to do a little reading on the Bluetooth API.

Mike

iirc, this new address book behavior is unfortunately the normal and "correct" behavior under panther, not an anomaly.

[starman]

Originally posted by spiky_dog:
iirc, this new address book behavior is unfortunately the normal and "correct" behavior under panther, not an anomaly.

Then why can AB do it but SC can't?

Doesn't look "correct" to me.

Mike

[badtz]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Yeah.

It used to pop to the front before Panther.

-s*

Unfortunate. I remember in Jaguar it was done 'correctly' ....

[cpac]

Originally posted by starman:
Doesn't look "correct" to me.

I think what he meant by "correct" is that Apps aren't supposed to jump to the front absent some action by the user.

(think of it this way - if Mail came up every time you got an email, while you're typing a memo, say, then you'd get interrupted frequently and forced to to deal with Mail when *it* wanted you to, rather than on your own schedule).

A solution that would fix everybody's gripes might be making AB "jump" in the same way that iChat does or how Mail used to.

Even better might be a transparent floating pop-up, akin to the kind you get when you receive an iChat....

There's a project for someone - this sort of plug-in for Address Book.

[badtz]

good observe!

just like iChat. When you get an IM, the physical window pops forward, but the main application is still used.