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
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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: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson
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