Mailing Lists: Apple Mailing Lists

Image of Mac OS face in stamp
 
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Problem with NSUserDefaultsController



8/31/08 10:13 AM, also sprach email@hidden:

> I've been playing around with bindings to NSUserDefaultsController in
> a very simple app to test saving preferences, but the
> [sharedUserDefaultsController save:self] method seems to return
> immediately without waiting for the save operation to complete.
> 
> The save does actually take place, which I can see if I open the
> plist file in Property List Editor, but if the very next line after
> sending the save message is one which reads a property from the
> plist, it's the old value which gets returned rather than the newly
> saved one.

The -save: method is unintuitive in name. It does not, as you may think,
save changes to disk. It simply commits any changes to the NSUserDefaults
object. It's a no-op if appliesImmediately is YES. The only way to force a
save is to call -synchronize on NSUserDefaults.

Best,

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Demystifying technology for your home or business"


_______________________________________________

Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)

Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com

Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/email@hidden

This email sent to email@hidden

References: 
 >Problem with NSUserDefaultsController (From: Mark Allan <email@hidden>)



Visit the Apple Store online or at retail locations.
1-800-MY-APPLE

Contact Apple | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.