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    10. Address Book > 10.8. Retrieving and Setting a Person’s Address Book Image

    10.8. Retrieving and Setting a Person’s Address Book Image

    Problem

    You want to be able to retrieve and set the images of address book people entries.

    Solution

    Use one of the following functions:

    ABPersonHasImageData

    Use this function to find out if an address book entry has an image set.

    ABPersonCopyImageData

    Use this function to retrieve the image data (if any).

    ABPersonSetImageData

    Use this function to set the image data for an entry.

    Discussion

    As mentioned in this recipe’s Solution, we can use the ABPersonCopyImageData function to retrieve the data associated with an image of a person entry in the address book. We can use this function in a method of our own to make it more convenient to use:


      

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