X-Lite Call numbers from AB but need to remove + " plus "

emilianomorgia · May 6, 2006, 4:57pm

Here is the script I wrote and It work ok , but my VoIp provider do not allow to use country code such like +39 ( italy ) . I can use 0039 but not +39 .

BTW X-Lite it’s a VoIP Application that can be downloaded from http://www.xten.com/

using terms from application "Address Book"
	on action property
		return "phone"
	end action property
	
	on action title for p with e
		return "Chiama con X-Lite"
	end action title
	
	on should enable action for p with e
		return true
	end should enable action
	
	on perform action for p with e
		
		set Pn to (value of e as string)
		tell application "X-Lite"
			dial Pn
			activate
		end tell
		return true
	end perform action
end using terms from

How do I remove +39 or any international country code from the String of AB number ?

Thanks

Kevin_Bradley · May 7, 2006, 7:42am

It depends on how you formatted the number in Address Book. Some people use dashes “999-999-9999” and others use spaces or periods. Or you might have run them together “9999999999”. What technique you use to extract the “+” and replace it depends on this information, unless you want to go through the whole string and search for “+” and replace it with “00”.

Conveniently, Applescript understands the idea of words and characters, so once you have the number in a variable, called myPhone, you can say


set newPhone to ""
repeat with myCount from 1 to (length of myPhone)
	set myChar to character myCount of myPhone
	if myChar = "+" then
		copy newPhone & "00" to newPhone
	else
		copy newPhone & myChar to newPhone
	end if
end repeat

and newPhone will contain the number with “00” in place of the “+”

emilianomorgia · May 7, 2006, 11:28am

:rolleyes: how to write the whole script then ? i’m not that good , and I can’t understand how to use your peace of script .

Thanks

Kevin_Bradley · May 7, 2006, 3:57pm

I’ll take a look at it if I have some time, but generally when scripting it’s hard to duplicate what applications someone else has on their system. If you were having trouble with Quark Xpress scripting, for example, I couldn’t afford to go buy Quark to help you out. But since this is free software I will fiddle with it as time permits.

Kevin_Bradley · May 7, 2006, 4:25pm

Emiliano,

After downloading the software and giving the manual a quick read, I see that I need a VoIP provider to use the software, and I don’t have one. If someone else has this program, perhaps they can assist you further.

emilianomorgia · May 7, 2006, 5:16pm

Thanks any way .

BTW the only Apple dictionary word of X-Ten it’s Dial , every things work but +countrycode . I’had a play with you scritp but I don’t understand how to use NewPhone Varialble .

Thanks again

emilianomorgia · May 7, 2006, 7:12pm

wow !!! Thanks

on perform action for p with e
       set newPhone to characters of (value of e as string)
       repeat with i in newPhone
           if contents of i = "+" then set contents of i to "00"
repeat with h in newPhone
  if contents of h = "." then set contents of h to ""
repeat with j in newPhone
 if contents of j = "-" then set contents of j to ""
       end repeat

Should that works for . and - ? or any bad values ?

emilianomorgia · May 7, 2006, 9:58pm

Final Release : This works good . thanks to all

using terms from application "Address Book"
	on action property
		return "phone"
	end action property
	
	on action title for p with e
		return "Dial with X-Lite"
	end action title
	
	on should enable action for p with e
		return true
	end should enable action
	
	on perform action for p with e
		set newPhone to characters of (value of e as string)
		repeat with i in newPhone
			if contents of i = "+" then set contents of i to "00"
		end repeat
		repeat with i in newPhone
			if contents of i = " " then set contents of i to ""
		end repeat
		repeat with i in newPhone
			if contents of i = "-" then set contents of i to ""
		end repeat
		repeat with i in newPhone
			if contents of i = "(" then set contents of i to ""
		end repeat
		repeat with i in newPhone
			if contents of i = ")" then set contents of i to ""
		end repeat
		repeat with i in newPhone
			if contents of i = "." then set contents of i to ""
		end repeat
		tell application "X-Lite"
			activate
			dial (newPhone as string)
		end tell
		return true
	end perform action
end using terms from

emilianomorgia · May 8, 2006, 8:04am

thanks J , your look cleaner then mine .

contactzero · May 26, 2006, 3:01am

Further more,
I’ve seen all kinds of creative input for phone numbers, so I strip or exclude everything but numbers.

example of input: 123/555.1212

It’s also a good idea to do more error checking - incorporate length or country etc.

The following script stands alone. Copy/paste in script editor and see how it strips off non-numerics.


display dialog "Enter Phone: eg. (123)555-1212" default answer "123/555.1212" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button "OK"
copy the result as list to {text_returned, button_pressed}

set _valid to "0123456789"

if button_pressed is not "Cancel" then
	set _numericOnly to ""
	
	repeat with i from 1 to length of text_returned
		set temp to character i of text_returned
		if temp is in _valid then
			set _numericOnly to _numericOnly & temp	
		end if
		set i to i + 1
	end repeat

	-- valid US phone number length
	if (length of _numericOnly â‰  7) and (length of _numericOnly â‰  10) then
		display dialog ((length of _numericOnly) as string) & " digits is not a valid U.S. phone number..."
	else
		display dialog text_returned & return & _numericOnly
	end if
end if