[itmediaconnect]

Hi,

I'm trying to read unread messages from the Inbox, my code snippet is this:

import appuifw
import e32
import thread
import messaging,string
import inbox
import contacts  
 
def getsender():
    while(1):
        box=inbox.Inbox()
        id=box.sms_messages()
        for item in id:
            if box.unread(item):
                b=box.content(item)
                sender = box.address(item)     # senders name or number
                mobileNum = getSenderNum(sender)
                print mobileNum

I'm getting this error:
box=inbox.Inbox()
NameError: global name inbox is not defined.

Please help me identify te problem here.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi,

Please post the entire code you're using. The function getSenderNum is not defined anywhere and the function getsender is only defined, not called.

[itmediaconnect]

This is the complete code:

import appuifw
import e32
import thread
import messaging,string
import inbox
import contacts           #import contact db

db = contacts.open()   #store in a variable "db"

def getSenderNum(sms_sender): 
	found = db.find(sms_sender)   #find in database the contact name
	try: found                   #check if found
	except NameError:
		senderData = found[0]
		senderNum = senderData.find("mobile_number")[0].value
	else:
		senderNum = sms_sender
	
	return senderNum   

#now all you have to do is assign a variable the number of that contact name

def getsender():
    while(1):
        box=inbox.Inbox()
        id=box.sms_messages()
        for item in id:
            if box.unread(item):
                b=box.content(item)
                sender = box.address(item)     # senders name or number
                mobileNum = getSenderNum(sender)
                print mobileNum

thread.start_new_thread(getsender, ())

I'm importing the messaging and inbox libraries, so I expect that inbox would be recognized but thats not happening??