Re: High Scores local to iPhone app
On May 5, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I am looking to save and read name/score pairs and started looking at SQLite to do this. I'm checking the Books sample application and there seems to be tons of code in there to basically provide the solution. Is there a better option than SQLite to do this in Obj-C (iPhone)? How many pairs do you plan on storing? If the answer is less than several hundred, just stick 'em in a property list or plain old text file and write it to the filesystem. b.bum ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: High Scores local to iPhone app
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? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Bill Bumgarner b...@mac.com wrote: On May 5, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I am looking to save and read name/score pairs and started looking at SQLite to do this. I'm checking the Books sample application and there seems to be tons of code in there to basically provide the solution. Is there a better option than SQLite to do this in Obj-C (iPhone)? How many pairs do you plan on storing? If the answer is less than several hundred, just stick 'em in a property list or plain old text file and write it to the filesystem. b.bum -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: High Scores local to iPhone app
On May 5, 2009, at 12:50 PM, 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? Wrong. A plist can contain an NSDictionary, which would contain your names and scores as key/value pairs. It even has a -writeToFile:... method. Easy peasy. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: High Scores local to iPhone app
You could store it as an array of dictionaries or arrays, for example. On 5-May-09, at 2:50 PM, 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? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Bill Bumgarner b...@mac.com wrote: On May 5, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I am looking to save and read name/score pairs and started looking at SQLite to do this. I'm checking the Books sample application and there seems to be tons of code in there to basically provide the solution. Is there a better option than SQLite to do this in Obj-C (iPhone)? How many pairs do you plan on storing? If the answer is less than several hundred, just stick 'em in a property list or plain old text file and write it to the filesystem. b.bum -- http://ericd.net Interactive design and development ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jroman%40melroman.net This email sent to jro...@melroman.net -- Anonymous ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: High Scores local to iPhone app
hi Eric, On May 5, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On May 5, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Eric E. Dolecki wrote: I am looking to save and read name/score pairs and started looking at SQLite to do this. I'm checking the Books sample application and there seems to be tons of code in there to basically provide the solution. Is there a better option than SQLite to do this in Obj-C (iPhone)? How many pairs do you plan on storing? If the answer is less than several hundred, just stick 'em in a property list or plain old text file and write it to the filesystem. b.bum this will work (plist file - also mentioned in other advice as dictionaries/arrays) as storing from ActionScript to SharedObject (without serialization, key/values are OK). Bill advice is fine and easy to implement. For future implementation you could look into SDK 3.0 and CoreData concepts - as I assume you're targeting iPhone SDK as well, regards, Peter Blazejewicz ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: High Scores local to iPhone app
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\t142\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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