Re: iCal Alarms

FROM : Finlay Dobbie
DATE : Thu Dec 23 19:06:48 2004

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:32:13 -0700, Kevin Patfield
<<email_removed>> wrote:
>
> On Dec 21, 2004, at 00:24:14 +0200, Cocoa Developer wrote:
>
> > Subject: iCal alarms
> > I am trying to create a program, which should use iCal calendars for
> > shedulling alarms. My question: is there any way to add event into
> > calendar by editing calendar file, that iCal launching would not be
> > required. Because I have tried to add event with alarm manual, but
> > until iCal is launched, iCal Helper doesn't show my event alarm :(.
>
> It's quite easy to just write into a .ics file, the trick is getting
> iCal to notice. The following works for me:


There were issues with this sort of thing last I looked. It's probably
better if you file an ER to Apple requesting that they make a public
iCal API.

-- Finlay