Hi folks,
I'm attempting to keep track of a WHOLE MESS of stuff using BBDB. One
of the things that I'm trying to keep track of is Birthdays. (I'm
*always* forgetting them.) So, I wrote a handy little function that
whips through all of the records in the database and prints out little
messages telling that somebody's birthday is today. (It's actually
called by a diary sexp in my diary file.)
The problem is that this is really *SLOW* since it has to go through
the whole DB for each day that it's trying to display. So, I figured
that the easiest thing to do would be to cache the birthday data for
fast & speedy lookup.
The problem now comes when I want to hook in to detect changes to the
database so that I can update the cache accordingly. I was planning
to use bbdb-after-change-hook, but that's not quite sufficient. What
I really need is a way to get the old and the new records so that I
can find the birthday in the cache with the old record, then update to
the new record.
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks a bunch.
--
Ian Flanigan
Digital Equipment International "Slower pizza's more luscious"
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