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  • Subject: Accessing preferences of another application
  • From: Dragan Milić <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:49:19 +0200

Hi all,

I know there must be a way to do this what I want, I just wasn't able to find it reading documentation of NSUserDefaults class. I've got an application with a bundle identifier, say, "com.mysite.myApp" and I want to share preferences of that application between it and another application, actually a plug-in of another application. So in my application I use [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] instance, as usually. Now, I want to access the same preferences (basically the same .plist file) from within mentioned plug-in. So far, I've been using CFPreferences and specifying "com.mysite.myApp" as identifier argument to every CFPreferences function call and it worked flawlessly. Unfortunately, with CFPreferences there isn't a way to define some kind of default preferences values to be used if there's no corresponding user-set value in the saved settings (.plist file), as there is with -[NSUserDefaults registerDefaults:] method. That brings me back to Cocoa. So far, I haven't manage to access preferences stored in "com.mysite.myApp.plist" file. I've tried to instantiate my own NSUserDefaults instance with -alloc and -init, and than to send it -addSuiteNamed:, passing my app identifier as an argument, I've also tried with -setPersistantDomain:forName:, but without success.

Any suggestions? Please note that I also need to register default preferences values with -registerDefaults: every time the plug-in (that is its hosting app) is launched. Thanks.

Cheers,
Milke
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