Re: duplicate preference keys
Re: duplicate preference keys
- Subject: Re: duplicate preference keys
- From: Tom Sutcliffe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:11:43 +0100
You're looking at the plist in Property List Editor right?
The most recent version (well, excluding whatever might be included in
panther) is buggy as hell and displays keys and values wrongly all over
the place. Open the file in a text editor and check if you really
actually have duplicates. If you don't, I'd recommend downgrading to
v1.2.1 of Property List Editor. Point Pacifist at an older version of
the developer tools .pkg. It'll be the most worthwhile 5 minutes you'll
spend in the context of plist files. I forget which release of the
tools has this version, but that at least works perfectly for me.
I have no idea why the editor is messed up, Apple have said (I think on
this list) that the actual XML parsing routines are fine, and it's just
the editor, so you really shouldn't be getting duplicates unless you're
constructing XML yourself, which you shouldn't be doing for a prefs
file anyway. Roll on Panther for (I hope) a package maker that doesn't
require postflight perl scripts longer than your app's source code, a
plist editor that works again, Java indexes that don't quadruple the
size of your project... :)
Of course, if you do actually have duplicate keys in a dictionary, file
a bug report pronto.
Regards,
Tom
On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 09:24 am, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
I did not think that this was supposed to be possible, but somehow I'm
managing (by error and accident) to put two entries in a prefs plist
with the same key. And of course they both have the wrong value. If
they had different values, I would be even more worried. I know that
the keys are the same because I followed Mr. Hillegasse's advice and
made constants of all of my keys, and only use the constant > references.
Ideas as to what this means, if anything, would be valued and
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--
Brent Gulanowski email@hidden
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