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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
I love the script... I have a suggestion (and a neat tip) that I'd love to see integrated, but I'm not totally up on the dbus stuff enough to do it. Maybe you are?

One interesting feature/hack for texting groups of people is that you can use the "Nickname" field to group people together. If you gave 5 people the nickname "GroupA", for example, then type GroupA into the To: field for a new SMS and hit the To: button, it lists those 5 people for quick selection. I use this already for texting groups of friends.

I would love if this script could (instead of making it's own mini database) use calls to ask the address book for people with a Nickname containing "GroupA" to setup the ring tone (and/or text tone?). That would make grouping a lot more integrated.

I'm hopeful that someone will make an extension (like the IM extensions) that adds a "Group" field to the address book that everyone can key off of, instead of (ab)using the Nickname field.
Actually I'm really looking for the method to read address book. Any hint would be welcome. ^^

However, reading the address book would further delay the ringtone changing process and cause even worse race condition...I must find a way to hold a call before the ringtone is changed.