plist – Page 2 – Tarik Billa

How to set initial values for NSUserDefault Keys?

June 13, 2023 by Tarik

You should use the registerDefaults method of NSUserDefaults. Prepare a plist file in your bundle that contains the default preferences and then use that plist to register the defaults. NSString *defaultPrefsFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”defaultPrefs” ofType:@”plist”]; NSDictionary *defaultPreferences = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:defaultPrefsFile]; [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults:defaultPreferences]; You have to execute this code on every launch of your … Read more

brew services: where to edit configuration?

June 12, 2023 by Tarik

All .plist files that come with Formulas can be found in Cellar dir. For instance homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist is in /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.7.14. You can modify it and brew services will use it. Alternatively you can modify /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist and make it immutable with sudo chflags uchg /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist. This won’t allow brew to rewrite or modify .plist file.

Deleting plist file does not reset app on macOS 10.9+

June 6, 2023 by Tarik

On 10.9, the system is doing some more robust “caching” of preferences. After deleting the plist file, I fired up Activity Monitor and force-killed the “cfprefsd” process. Be careful: there are multiple processes with this name running and you only want to kill the one running under your own user; do not kill the one … Read more

Steps to create and edit a plist file in Xcode

May 15, 2023 by Tarik

Right click on the folder you want to add it to and choose “New file…” From the Dialog – create a new Resource file of type Property List: Give it whatever name you want, the plist extension will be added for you. In this case I’ve created Root.plist This will bring up a blank file … Read more

How to read data structure from .plist file into NSArray

May 10, 2023 by Tarik

NSString* plistPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”league” ofType:@”plist”]; contentDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:plistPath]; That answer is correct – are you sure that your file is in the app? Did you add it to your project, and check to see if it gets copied into your app bundle? If not, it might be the file was not added … Read more

Should I use NSUserDefaults or a plist to store data?

May 1, 2023 by Tarik

I am assuming an array, but it will work with dictionaries too. Userdefaults, Core Data and Plists can all be read/write but if you use a plist you need to pay attention in what dir you put it. See the plist part down below. Core Data I think it’s way too much overkill, it’s just … Read more

NSString: newline escape in plist

April 30, 2023 by Tarik

If you’re editing the plist in Xcode’s inbuild plist editor, you can press option-return to enter a line break within a string value.

iOS extensions with multiple targets

April 16, 2023 by Tarik

To share one widget with others targets, you only need to add widget.appex target to Embedded Binaries for every parent target in General configuration tab Then you’ll get Embed App Extensions area at Build Phases automatically

How to know which line of plist file is incorrect

April 6, 2023 by Tarik

Try running the following command in Terminal: plutil <PATH_TO_FILE> It will tell you what the problem is and give you the line number.

Error while executing .plist file Path had bad ownership/permissions

February 13, 2023 by Tarik

Try changing the ownership of the .plist file: sudo chown root /Library/LaunchDaemons/myfile.plist sudo chgrp wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/myfile.plist or more simply, change the user and group in one command: sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/myfile.plist It is also worth noting that these root LaunchDaemons can’t be world writable, for security reasons: sudo chmod o-w /Library/LaunchDaemons/*