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Re: When does a Prefs file get created by the NSUserDefaults defaults system?
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Re: When does a Prefs file get created by the NSUserDefaults defaults system?


  • Subject: Re: When does a Prefs file get created by the NSUserDefaults defaults system?
  • From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 15:53:35 -0600

The code shown will not cause a preferences file to be created.

-[NSUserDefaults registerDefaults:] is there so you can provide values for defaults in the "registration domain," which is the last-resort place NSUserDefaults looks, if a default is not otherwise specified. In other words, registerDefaults: specifies your _default_ preferences.

It's only when the user specifies non-default preferences, and you save them into the application domain with -[NSUserDefaults setObject:forKey:], that a preference file becomes necessary. It's created then.

-- F

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:15 PM, Rob Frohne wrote:

I'm having trouble with my application crashing when there has been a Preferences file created. In trying to understand how things are working and how they are supposed to work, I find that the following code doesn't create a Preferences file, even on quitting the application.

#import "test.h"
@implementation test
+ (void)initialize
{
//This doesn't seem to work.
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSMutableDictionary *appDefs = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];

[appDefs setObject:@"NO" forKey:@"First Setting"];
[appDefs setObject:@"YES" forKey:@"Second Setting"];
[appDefs setObject:@"SNR" forKey:@"Third Setting"];

[defaults registerDefaults:appDefs];
}
@end

I had thought that it was supposed to set these values as the default preferences, but I guess I'm wrong. Later in the program when I write changes to say the "First Setting" in the defaults database, a Preferences file is created, and it contains that value, but not the others.

How is this supposed to work? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
--
Fritz Anderson - Consulting Programmer - Chicago, IL
Mail: <email@hidden>
Risumi: <http://resume.manoverboard.org>
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