Gary, many thanks. Your advice lead me to UKXattrMetadataStore which works perfectly for the small NSDictionary of settings I have.
Thanks again, Martin On 28, Aug, 2011, at 04:35 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote: > Many applications use extended attributes (xattr) for similar purposes. The > oldest way that still works is to use the resource fork of a file, which is > sometimes implemented as an xattr. In these cases, for those file systems > that support them, they are intrinsically part of the same file. > > - Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone) > > On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:42 AM, Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> > wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> I've been scratching my head for a while on this. Suppose you have an >> NSDocument app like TextEdit which just allows the user to edit a text file. >> Now suppose there are some additional state settings associated with the >> editor. These could dictate how the contents of the text file are displayed, >> or how some other actions are to be carried out. My question is, where is >> the best place to store these additional state settings so that they persist >> across restarts of the app. I can think of 3 ways, and I don't really like >> any of them: >> >> 1) encode the settings as a string and tag it on the end of the text file >> then parse that string out when the file is reopened. >> 2) write an additional plist file next to the text file on disk, perhaps >> with the same name or as a hidden file. >> 3) write a plist file in the application support directory >> >> Thoughts: >> >> Method 1) sounds fragile and painful to implement and maintain >> Method 2) sounds intrusive - I don't like the idea of sprinkling files on >> the user's disk >> Method 3) would mean the support directory fills with plist files which may >> never be used again >> >> Anyone got any better ideas? Perhaps I'm missing something very obvious >> here..... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Martin >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Martin Hewitson >> Albert-Einstein-Institut >> Max-Planck-Institut fuer >> Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover >> Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany >> Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 >> E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de >> WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Hewitson Albert-Einstein-Institut Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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
