Re: Hunting for System Preferences
Re: Hunting for System Preferences
- Subject: Re: Hunting for System Preferences
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:23:03 +0200
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At 5:10 PM -0600 6/2/02, Carl Norum wrote:
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> I cannot for the life of me find out where to get the current user's
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> preferred mail application... does anybody out there have any pointers on how
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> to go about finding the current settings of System Preferences values?
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> Thanks very much!
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The information about default Internet applications is stored in this property
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list text file:
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/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Internet.prefPane/Contents/Resources/English.l
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proj/DefaultHelperApps.plist
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The file contains some documentation on how the file is structured and used.
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Gibbons Burke
That file contains only the default values, and not the user selection.
In addition, the location and contents of this file should be considered an
implementation detail. Internet Config is the documented way to get the
preferred application.
/ David
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