Re: Saving data to a file
Re: Saving data to a file
- Subject: Re: Saving data to a file
- From: sinclair44 <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 06:30:33 -0500
On 3/14/03 4:48 PM, "Ron Phillips" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I have scoured the cocoa-dev archives, web sites and books and still am
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confused on how best to write data to a file from a non-document-based
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application. An XML format is fine, human-readable is not required. I
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have a collection of arrays, ints, strings, and BOOLs. What
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preparation is needed for a property list? Chris Kane indicated that
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archiving is not compatible with plists and writeToFile:atomically:.
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That's cool, so do I just *somehow* wrap up my high-level object into
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an NSData object and do the write? If so, what's the best approach to
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do that? Is encoding still needed?
[plug]
If you need an example or more 'document-based' file opening/closing, you
can look at the MiscellanyToolkit framework (written by me) and its class
"MTFileIO". It's open-source (GPL). It basically does what the other
responses have said.
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=18501&db=mac
[/plug]
--
-- sinclair44
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