[maemo-developers] Programmatically selecting contacts in OssoABookContactChooser and Qt 4.7

[From: David Talmage]

I need help marking and selecting contacts from an address book in my 
N900 Qt application.  What I want to do is similar to what Pallavi 
Kandhare asked about in 
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-June/026975.html. 
  That is, I have a list of contacts.  I need a dialog that shows all of 
the possible contacts with the ones in my list already marked as selected.

Until there are Qt dialogs for selecting contacts, as helpers 
to]QtMobility, I think I have to use OssoABookContactChooser [*].  I can 
display one of those and discover which contacts my user selected.  How 
do I display the OssoABookContactChooser with some contacts already 
selected?  I think I need to use 
osso_abook_contact_chooser_select_contact() or 
osso_abook_contact_chooser_select_contacts().  I've tried both functions 
and neither of them do what I want.  Neither seem to do anything at all 
as far as I can tell. Do they need a little time to complete like 
osso_abook_aggregator_get_default(), which I discovered that I must wrap 
in osso_abook_waitable_run()?

I started with code I found on Forum Nokia 
(http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_use_native_Maemo5_contacts_dialogs). 
  If people want it, I can post the version I'm using that attempts to 
select contacts before displaying the OssoABookContactChooser.

If it helps, I'm using QtCreator 2.0.1 based on Qt 4.7.0 (64-bit) built 
on Sep 8 2010 at 15:35:24.


[*] Or make my own.  I'm trying to avoid that because it seems like a 
lot of work.

PS- I've been all over this mailing list's archives, Forum Nokia, and 
Google with no joy. :-(