Re: Newbie questions
Re: Newbie questions
- Subject: Re: Newbie questions
- From: Xavier Elizalde <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:39:04 +1000
I got it figured out for #1- the book doesn't explain that you need a
further path past the ".app" package. Appending "/Contents/MacOS/Foo"
fixed the problem. As for #2, I actually misunderstood the task and
found I was doing it already. After spending heaps of time working on
it and finally reading the task again, of course. I thought it meant
to write information in the application bundle, not just read from
the application bundle and write in ~/Library/Preferences. Thanks for
the help.
Xavier
On 25/04/2006, at 11:10 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
1. It says on page 294 in Chapter 15 that you can override
preference settings with "Application -[Key name] [Value name]"
from the Terminal. But whenever I try to do that, it gives me an
error, saying there is no directory with the same name as the [Key
name] in my home directory. Is there a newer way to do this that
works properly?
How do you try that exactly?
It works like this: to launch manually e.g., TextEdit with pref Foo
set to Bar (which of course would do nothing, for TextEdit ignores
pref "Foo"), you have to enter this in Terminal:
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Content/MacOS/TextEdit -Foo Bar
If you -- as can be assumed -- instead want to do this directly
from Xcode, use the executable Get Info, and in the arguments pane
just add something like "-Foo Bar".
2. On page 296, the third exercise at the end of Chapter 15 says
to modify the example application "so that it reads its
application defaults from a .plist file contained as a resource in
its application bundle" rather than in ~/Library/Preferences. I
can't figure out how to do that.
Haven't read the book, but if I follow properly what it meant by
that, the appropriate code should look kind of like this (written
in Mail, typos etc. probable :), no error checking (you should take
e.g., case there is no plist gracefully)):
NSString *plistPath=[[NSBundle mainBundle]
pathForResource:@"YourPlistName" ofType:@"YourPlistSuffix"];
NSDictionary *plistContent=[NSDictionary
dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:plistPath];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults]
registerDefaults:plistContents];
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Ondra Čada
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