11. Using Built-In Bento Libraries for iCal Tasks and iCal Events

In this chapter you’ll see how to use the Bento libraries to interact with iCal Tasks and Events.

Catching Up with iCal

In the preceding chapter, you saw how Address Book is integrated with Bento so that data is stored in Address Book or iPhoto but can be displayed or updated either in Address Book or iPhoto as well as in Bento. iCal is integrated with Bento in much the same way, but there are some important differences.

Perhaps the biggest difference is a reflection of the data: iCal data—like all calendaring data—is inherently more complex than address data and photos. People enter, delete, and change calendar data more frequently than address data. Even more important is the ...

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