Re: best way to save document level settings?
Re: best way to save document level settings?
- Subject: Re: best way to save document level settings?
- From: Donald Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 00:32:35 -0700
My thanks to everyone who replied. I am looking into using
NDResourceFork as it seems the logical place to put this information
is with the document itself. Any solution I can think of using the
program's preference .plist gets messy quickly if you want to keep
track of the existence of the document files so as not to be carrying
around information on deleted documents in the .plist file.
What happens if the user is not using the HFS+ file system?
Thanks again,
Don
On Dec 6, 2003, at 2:39 AM, Donald Hall wrote:
My application displays document data in tables that can be sorted
by column like iTunes or the Finder list view. I want to save the
sorting columns and sorting directions of the tables when the
document is closed and saved. What is the best way to save this
information? At present, I am thinking of using the program's .plist
file, with one entry (a dictionary) for each document the user
saves. The plist key would be the document's file path. The total
number of documents is not likely to be large. The only other
alternative I can think of is to save the information in the
document itself, but the sorting information really has nothing to
do with the actual data in the file and it would mean changing
another program that reads the data file to ignore it.
Thanks for any suggestions or insights,
--
Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
email@hidden
http://www.appsandmore.com
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