Re: plist data type 'data'
Re: plist data type 'data'
- Subject: Re: plist data type 'data'
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:53:53 +1100
On 9 Oct 2013, at 6:35 AM, Stan Cleveland <email@hidden> wrote:
> It's used for storing the raw bytes of binary objects, such as images.
While that's true, in the context of property lists it is more often used to store Cocoa objects -- things like colors, fonts and NSURLs. So the process generally involves archiving information about the object in an encoded hierarchy, and then storing the resulting encoded object as data. In such cases getting something useful from the data is a matter of reversing the encoding. That's not something raw AppleScript is really up to, but it's reasonably straight-forward in AppleScriptObjC.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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