Re: Filing of User Presets - extension for exported presets
Re: Filing of User Presets - extension for exported presets
- Subject: Re: Filing of User Presets - extension for exported presets
- From: Brian Willoughby <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:55:10 -0700
There is an established precedent in Cocoa of using a more specific extension
for a particular subset of a more general file type. Because presets should
not be edited outside an AudioUnit (except by developers), and because
AudioUnits cannot load generic Property Lists, it seems imperative that another
extension be used. Something like .aupreset would indicate that these are
appropriate for AudioUnits only.
PropertyList Editor will allow you to select files without the .plist
extension in its file Open dialog. I cannot think of any examples right now,
but Apple has already used the plist format within files that have a more
descriptive extension.
P.S. Just to be clear, presets stored as user defaults in the preferences
directory will have the .plist extension because the system is in control of
this. Presets that are exported to regular files should have the e.g.
.aupreset extension.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
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