David: Thanks for all your help, it's almost working... Just one more question:
Question: I am attempting to "turn" the object returned into a NSDictionary, but it doesn't seem like something that can be turned into a NSDictionary. Am I doing something wrong here? The file is a plist file. Sincerely, Pierce Freeman On 4/5/09 6:36 PM, "Dave Keck" <davek...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 1. Is there any concern of thread safety using this class? >> 2. How can I pass NSFileHandle the file URL of my files? >> 3. How could I create a method that will take the contents of the file and >> do something with them? > > 1. No. NSFIleHandle takes care of creating a separate thread for you, > and notifies your main thread when it's finished reading the given > file, with a NSFileHandleReadToEndOfFileCompletionNotification > notification. > > 2. If you have a NSURL and need to create a NSFileHandle with that, > simply use NSURL's -path method to get the NSURL's filesystem path. > Otherwise, just create your file handle with a NSString path using > -fileHandleForReadingAtPath:. > > 3. Register for the NSFileHandleReadToEndOfFileCompletionNotification > notification. Once it's received, you can access its respective > NSFileHandle using the notification's -object method. > > All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again, as they > say. The answers to 2 & 3 can be found with a little searching - I > encourage you to do so. > > David _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
