Re: NSCoding between iOS and Mac OS X
Re: NSCoding between iOS and Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: NSCoding between iOS and Mac OS X
- From: Nathan Day <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:05:15 +1000
What about binary property lists, they should be interchangeable between iOS and Mac OS X?
On 26/08/2010, at 1:29 AM, Ricky Sharp wrote:
> A similar question came up recently.
>
> While some objects (e.g. NSNumber) things should be binary compatible. But you may run into issues.
>
> Also depends upon what objects you are coding. Mac OS X uses NSColor whereas iOS uses UIColor.
>
> I would recommend using an intermediate normalized format instead. Then write independent code for each platform.
>
> If archiving colors, capture normalized values like color mode (ARGB, HSL), color components, etc. Then, rebuild up objects as needed.
>
> For text data, I would use UTF-8 with the original text being normalized.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Nathan Day <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know whether NSCoding can be used to transfer data between iOS and Mac OS X. Is this documented as guaranteed to work. I have tried to do a google search but I got nothing, probably searching for the wrong thing.
>>
>> Nathan Day
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