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Re: Passing non-string user defaults through command line arguments
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Re: Passing non-string user defaults through command line arguments


  • Subject: Re: Passing non-string user defaults through command line arguments
  • From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:35:32 -0700

On Apr 5, 2011, at 16:16 , Chris Suter wrote:

> Sorry, I meant to send this to the list
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Hi Christiaan,
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Christiaan Hofman <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Sometimes I want to test my app with a particular value for a user default.
>> I do this by adding a command line argument (in the info for the executable
>> in Xcode) for the user default key. This works for string values, however
>> when the value needs to be something else (e.g. a boolean), I cannot get
>> this to work. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Yes.
>
> // Using XML
> -argument '<integer>1</integer>'
> // Using old style (probably deprecated)
> -argument '(one, two, three)'

Unless I misunderstand this, the program still has to know, or be told, that the (string!) arguments have to be translated/interpreted as the specified "objects".  It is not the case that the code can look something like

main(argc, argv)
{   int i;
    i = argv[2];
    ...
}

when called with, e.g.,

$ foo -argument '<integer>1</integer>'

We maybe should have resorted to a specific example earlier in this thread, to help the discussion.

Do we agree on this?  Am I missing something (like a change in the technology since last I waded into this area)?

Christian: is this something like what you are asking about?  If not, can you give a short snippet that shows what you want?

Justin

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