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Mysterious NULL Coming From NSUserDefaults
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  • Subject: Mysterious NULL Coming From NSUserDefaults
  • From: "Alex Wait" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:51:39 -0700

I've been enjoying NSUserDefaults when going through the Hillegeass book.

I've decided to do a small app that has two colors it stores. I get these
colors from a colorwell via  Preference Pane.

I have bounded the values of the wells to backGroundWell and lineWell in IB.

I have the appropriately named methods. I know my bindings are ok becuase if
I just return [NSColor whiteColor] instead of the data
from NSUserDefaults, they're yellow when I open the pane. so that's ok.

I am pretty sure I'm getting a null from the defaults because the wells are
black. I have no "blackColor" in my project. Already searched for that. ;)

What am I doing wrong? I thought that NSUserDefaults was pretty simple...

Below are my getters and setters.

-(NSColor*)backGroundWell
{

    NSLog(@"called BGwell");

    NSUserDefaults* defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    NSData* data = [defaults objectForKey:@"BGCOLOR"];
    NSColor* newColor = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data];
    NSLog(@"retrieved Color for BG is %@", newColor);
    //NSLog(@"%@",[NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data]);
    return [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data];
}
-(NSColor*)lineWell
{

    NSUserDefaults* defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    NSData* data = [defaults objectForKey:@"LINECOLOR"];
    return [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:data];
}

-(void)setBackGroundWell: (NSColor*)newColor
{
    NSLog(@"New Color is %@", newColor);
    NSUserDefaults* defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    NSColor* color = [backGroundWell color];
    NSData* colorData = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:color];
    [defaults setObject:colorData forKey:@"BGCOLOR"];
    NSLog(@"changing background color");
}
-(void)setLineWell: (NSColor*)newColor
{
    NSLog(@"New Color is %@", newColor);
    NSUserDefaults* defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    NSData* colorData = [NSKeyedArchiver
archivedDataWithRootObject:[lineWell color] ];
    [defaults setObject:colorData forKey:@"LINECOLOR"];
    NSLog(@"changing line color");

}


-------
Below is my +(void) initialize method

+(void) initialize
{

    NSMutableDictionary* defaultValues = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];

    NSData* backgroundColorData = [NSKeyedArchiver
archivedDataWithRootObject:[NSColor greenColor] ];
    NSData* lineColorData = [NSKeyedArchiver
archivedDataWithRootObject:[NSColor whiteColor] ];

    [defaultValues setObject:backgroundColorData forKey:@"BGCOLOR"];
    [defaultValues setObject:lineColorData forKey:@"LINECOLOR"];

    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults:defaultValues];
    NSLog(@"registered defaults %@", defaultValues);

}


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