Binary PList format

clogwog

I see QSettings supports the XML PList format on the apple platform, does anyone have a suggestion on how to read/write to the binary version of PList on all platforms ?

i looked at https://github.com/JonathanBeck/libplist but it has quite a big dependency list.

is there a multi platform c++ implementation somewhere ?

just looking for some direction/keywords of where to look next.

thanks,
tom

goetz

[[Doc:QSettings]] writes binary plist files by default - and therefore reads them too, of course :-)

clogwog

oooh.. i... i... i'm checking now.. if that's right ..
it is .. thank you very very much !!

i was looking for a platform independent way, but this will do very well for now.. thanks again.

goetz

You need to read/write those on Linux/Windows too?

DenisKormalev

You can dive into qt sources to look how it is implemented or use more cross-platform ini-format

clogwog

nah, it's because another (iphone) application writes a binary plist file that i'm trying to read (via dropbox)

so it can be read by windows and linux machines as well

going into the qt sources won't help me much because in the platform limitations (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/stable/qsettings.html#platform-limitations) of QSettings it starts with:

"On Mac OS X, the CFPreferences API used by QSettings expects..."

so that CFPreferences API won't be available on non mac platforms.

using ini files would have been great if i controlled the iphone application, but i don't.

I'll have another look when i finish my mac version first.

thanks all for thinking along. it's much appreciated !!