Comments on: userDefaults: automatically register defaults from Settings.bundle

By: vieuxrenard

vieuxrenard — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:31:15 +0000

Hi Russell, thanks for your feedback!

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:22:43 +0000

Thank you so much for that code. I am displaying settings in the app and in the Settings.app and had blank values if a user never went into the Settings.app. Adding your method to my code instantly solved the issue. Great work!

By: vieuxrenard

vieuxrenard — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:15:22 +0000

Hi, that may work as well, haven’t tried the registration domain though.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:27:17 +0000

Hi, good work. You can actually shorten it though. You don’t need to check whether a preference is already in the user defaults because the values you register are stored in the registration domain and returned only if the preference has not been set/changed. In other words, they are the defaults and any changes made in preferences will override then when you request a value. This is not obvious from the Apple doco, but this sentence from Accessing Preference Values, Registering Your App’s Default Preferences tells it all with regard to registerDefaults – “… This method places your custom default values in the NSRegistrationDomain domain, which causes them to be returned when a preference is not explicitly set.”

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:08:25 +0000

It works perfect, nice job!!!.

By: Maarten Moors

Maarten Moors — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:00:05 +0000

Ty was very usefull

By: sesarto

sesarto — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:02:30 +0000

Bravo!!!

By: vieuxrenard

vieuxrenard — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:10:22 +0000

sure, just send it to me … (ulf a ijure dot org). Maybe I’ll see the issue right away. However in these cases it’s always a good idea as well to step through the code in Xcode’s debugger to see why it doesn’t work as exspected. It does for me, even with multivalues.

Cheers, Ulf

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:00:29 +0000

I’m using your code exactly ( literally copy & paste ) and I have weird things happening. The bool values are being accepted, but the multi-value ones – aren’t.

Any ideas?

I can send you a copy of the plist if that’s any help.

Thankx

By: Abel de Beer

Abel de Beer — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:40:40 +0000

Thanks for this stuff!!!