Re: How to read binary plist files with RB?

[Thomas Tempelmann <tempelmann@gmail.com>]

(lots of enough-times-repeated-quotes finally removed)

> Looking at the code, the CFPreference.Sync method is initialised using the
> pointer "CurrentApplication", taken from
> CFBundle.CarbonFramework.DataPointerNotRetained("kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication").
> This appears to be taken from the Bundle (by the way, it means I can't
> debug, just try in the built app).

You're not using the code I gave you. Instead, you are confusing
CFPreference with CFPropertyList.

CFPropertyList is what you need to use, just as I had shown you. Look
at the test code in CoreFoundation._TestSelf, where it says:

   // Test CFBundle and CFPropertyList

About 10 times further down, starting with

   dim rs as new CFReadStream (url)

is the code that reads a plist from a file, modifies it, and writes it back.

That's what you need.

CFPreferences is only for your app's prefs and nothing else.

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