On windows, we use registry or .ini or xml config etc for settings that apps can pull in at run time w/o making code changes.
On Mac/Cocoa, what’re the best approaches to do that and what are the corresponding APIs?
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On windows, we use registry or .ini or xml config etc for settings that apps can pull in at run time w/o making code changes.
On Mac/Cocoa, what’re the best approaches to do that and what are the corresponding APIs?
See NSUserDefaults and the User Defaults Programming Topics. NSUserDefaults stores the data as a property list in the ~/Library/Preferences directory.