Thanks to Geoff Norton in pointing me to NSDictonary and Baker, GJ for the
example phonebook program, I was finally able to read a plist from OSX. It may
not be pretty but I will port the code below in case anyone else needs help. I
wasn't totally sure about the NSApplication.Main. I commented it out to keep
the program from opening up a window. This is strictly a console app to help us
manage our macs better. What is the correct way to do this?
Travis
static string GetPlistValue(string filepath, string key)
{
//Clean up the pool errors
using (var ns = new NSAutoreleasePool())
{
//Connect to Apple framework
NSApplication.Init ();
//Commented out cause this is a console app
//NSApplication.Main (args);
//Create a new dictonary to hold our plist
NSDictionary plist = new NSDictionary();
//Check to see if the plist exists
if
(NSFileManager.DefaultManager.FileExists(filepath))
{
//Check to see if the plist has
anything in it
plist =
NSDictionary.FromFile(filepath);
if (plist != null)
{
//return the
value for our key
NSString
valueKey = new NSString(key);
return
plist.ValueForKey(valueKey).ToString();
}else{
//The plist is
empty
return "Empty
plist";
}
}
//Can't find the plist, correct path?
return "No plist found";
}
}
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Mono-osx] reading and writing plists
We are looking for examples on how to read and write to the native plists
included with Mac OSX. Most of the plists are in the binary format, which we
can convert to the xml format if needed. We are trying to code a few tools to
help us manage our macs better.
Thanks
Travis
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