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Re: CFPreferences


  • Subject: Re: CFPreferences
  • From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:32:51 -0700

It's ready made code that you can just copy and paste in. Don't be so afraid of carbon.

Ack, at 1/28/06, Alan Smith said:

It seems rather unnessasaryily complicated, and that stuff about Apple Event is pretty gross. And it's Carbon. Which, from reading a lot about Cocoa, got the feeling it was not a very good language and that I should avoid it if possible. I did try your NSDictionary stuff but at the CFPreferencesCopyAppValue the dictionary remains empty. Argh! Why me? I found a desktop picture changer on macupdate and it's free so I'll ask the dev about it. What about the open dialog? Anyone?

Cheers, Alan

On 1/28/06, Rosyna <<mailto:email@hidden>email@hidden> wrote:

make a deep mutable copy (not a normal one, but a deep one) of the top dictionary then change the values and set the top dictionary back to the preferences. however, writing is especially dangerous as it isn't your preference file and the format isn't exactly documented. Also, it may look at the Alias (as it should) before it even bothers to look at the path (which should never actually be queried). In which case you'd have to update the alias data, even though the format is known today, it is not documented and may change in the future.

<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/DeskPictAppDockMenu/listing3.h>http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/DeskPictAppDockMenu/listing3.h tml has *real* sample code for setting the desktop picture, however it also contains a warning about not being future proof.

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