On May 5, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote:
Probably only 10... however I understand that a plist can't store
complex data... how would this work for pairs? Normally I'd only be
able to store just a list of scores, not paired with names, correct?
A property list is composed of a relatively arbitrary collection of
NSArray, NSString, NSDate, NSNumber, and NSString instances arranged
pretty much however you like. So, name/score pairs are trivial to
represent. Of course, if you use names as key, you can only have one
score per name unless you, say, hang an array off the dictionary as a
value.
Or you could create a simple class that holds your name/score tables
however it wants to....
@interface MyScoreTable : NSObject <NSCoding>
{
NSMutableArray *names;
NSMutableArray *scores;
}
...
@end
And then implement the NSCoding methods to read/write archived
versions of the names/scores.
Or you could just shove 'em all in a string:
Bob\t100\n
Fred\t120\n
Bob\t90\n
Joe\t220\n
bbum\t1000042\n
And then parse that w/a bit of "componentsSeparatedByString:"
hackery. Not exactly efficient, but for only 10 items, it really
matters not.
b.bum
(Who is terribly good at games, as you can see from my masterful score
above)
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