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 <nathan_...@mac.com> 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 >> http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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/rsharp%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to rsh...@mac.com Nathan Day http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/ _______________________________________________ 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
