selecting contacts

[jscoulter]

Hi All.
I have some code that iterates thru the contact to show only contacts with a mobile phone number.
I then use InputMap to display the contacts the user can select, BUT when the data map is returned after the user closes the dialog show by InputMap all I get is the key value and wether or not the item was selected(true or false).
When I add contacts to the map passed to InputMap I pass in the contact name and the contact ID using the myMap.PUT() function.
I need the contact ID because I cant rely on the name passed back as I or the user might have multiple contacts with the same name.....for whatever reason.
How would I tackle this to get the result I am after?
I thought about using a type, but when the map data is displayed in the dialog, it will show the items of the type rather than the name as it does now.

Any help appreciated. I am sure I am not the first to have this problem

Thanks, Jeremy

 

[Erel]

Can you post the code that you use to add the values?

The simplest solution is to have another Map with the same keys and the IDs as values.

 

[jscoulter]

Ok, dont want to sound dumb here, but how does that help?
for example here is say map 1 that gets passed to the inputmap function

Jeremy=1
Fred=2
Jeremy=3

the second map as you proposed would be the same.

Now, the result after I select Jeremy and Fred from the inputmap fuction

Jeremy=true, Fred=false, Jeremy=true

I suspect you idea is to now search the second proposed map for the contact id....but in this scenario, which Jeremy am I searching for? contact id 1 or 3?

Thanks, Jeremy

 

[Erel]

InputMap cannot show two items with the same key.

 

[jscoulter]

sounds like I might have to build my own screen to handle it. Thats ok

Thanks, Jeremy