Re: What's the format of InfoPlist.strings?

• Subject: Re: What's the format of InfoPlist.strings?
• From: email@hidden
• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:25:25 +0200

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 01:01 PM, email@hidden wrote:

It's definitely not a plist format.

CFBundleName = "something";

is not a usual NSDictionary entry.

How can we get the string associated to the key CFBundleName without having to rewrite a complete parser?

It uses the strings-file format, which is a stripped-down version of the old plist format. Fortunately, the XML plist parser will also recognize strings-file format and the old plist format, so you don't need to do anything special. Conversely, .strings files such as InfoPlist.strings can use the XML plist format, although the strings-file format is usually more convenient.

Even more conveniently, you don't have to read InfoPlist.strings at all, because CFBundle and/or NSBundle will do it for you. If you're using CFBundle, the recommended approach is to use CFBundleGetValueForInfoDictionaryKey(). This will get a localized value from InfoPlist.strings, if there is one, or a non-localized value if not. If for some reason you must distinguish between localized and non-localized values, you can use CFBundleGetInfoDictionary() and CFBundleGetLocalInfoDictionary(). The corresponding NSBundle methods are objectForInfoDictionaryKey:, infoDictionary, and localizedInfoDictionary.

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