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 wa
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.
- Ga
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 ar
