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Re: nav services: how do I get my save location to equal my load location

On 25 Jul 2004, at 01:27, Bob Sabiston wrote:

>>> So, is this Tech Q&A file no longer valid? Cuz I just spent an hour
>>> changing over to this method...
>>>
>>> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1151.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Where are my .plist prefs?
>>
>> The standard place is your com.yourcompany.yourproduct.plist file in
>> the
>> Preferences folder (of all places). I'll confess some surprise that
>> this
>> late in the game you aren't familiar with CFPreferences, which is
>> supported
>> in CarbonLib and all versions of Mac OS X, and which all of Apple's
>> Mac OS X
>> applications use. If you use CFPReferences at all, then when you
>> write out
>> preferences you've set, prefs like Nav Services and HIToolbar also
>> get saved
>> as well.
>
> From looking at the CFPreferences documentation that I can find, it
> isn't really very clear what one must do to get it all working. I
> mean, there doesn't seem to be any kind of CFPreferences
> Initialization call, and if I don't have any other values that I want
> to save in cute little key-value pairs, then what do I really need to
> do in order to have my Save and Load dialogs go to the same place? I
> have the 'preferenceKey' in my dialog boxes set to the same thing. Is
> it necessary to save some other value with CFPreferencesSetAppValue?
> That seems unlikely. Is the 'client name' in the dialog options
> supposed to be equal to the App's ID, "com.blahblah.app"?
>

The one thing you do have to do is to call CFPrefencesAppSynchronize,
to commit changes to disk. You'll probably want to pass
kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication as a parameter.
You may need to have a bundle identifier defined (in you application's
Info.plist or in your plst resource if you're still unbundled cfm), I'm
not sure about that one.

Fred

>>> Because it isn't working--I would like to
>>> see what values are being saved.
>>
>> It was not clear from the way you worded your original question
>> exactly what
>> you want to do. If you simply want the last location used to be used
>> again,
>> then CFPReferences + prefs key is enough.
>
> Yeah that is all I want to do. Assuming I have no other CFPreferences
> usage in my application, what do you have to do to have default
> locations work in dialogs?
>
> Thanks
> Bob
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References: 
 >Re: nav services: how do I get my save location to equal my load location (From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>)
 >Re: nav services: how do I get my save location to equal my load location (From: Bob Sabiston <email@hidden>)



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