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Re: Creating a Composition in Code


On 02.02.2007, at 09:57, Oliver Breidenbach wrote:

One more tidbit of information: You can turn the files into ASCII XML using command line tool "plutil -convert xml1 [filename]" and edit them in a text editor. QC will also open the ASCII XML files but when you save them, it will turn them back into binary.

Yesterday I had to mass-generate some rather basic compositions with a customized string and they were actually per default in ASCII plist format.

Anyway, for both formats it should be sufficient to deserialize them using

NSString *error;
NSPropertyListFormat format;
NSData *compositionData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[path stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename]];
id composition = [NSPropertyListSerialization propertyListFromData:compositionData
mutabilityOption:NSPropertyListMutableContainersAndLeaves
format:&format
errorDescription:&error];

or the corresponding Carbon APIs...

Regards,
	Tom_E

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