to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Rogers
Hi, I am creating a file with: NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; [fileManager createFileAtPath:path contents:nil attributes:nil]; === then I got a fileHandle as: NSFileHandle *fileHandle = [NSFileHandle fileHandleForWritingAtPath:path]; ===

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Thomas Backman
Sorry to duck your question, but are you sure you don't want NSKeyedArchiver and similar classes? /Thomas On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Nick Rogers wrote: Hi, I am creating a file with: NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; [fileManager createFileAtPath:path

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Rogers
Hi, I will use NSKeyedArchiver to create a lot of NSData objects before writing to file. I can't write one whole NSData to file because i have to write in GBs and also have to show the progress bar. Thanks for the reply, Nick On 15-Apr-08, at 8:10 PM, Thomas Backman wrote: Sorry to duck

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 15 Apr 2008, at 15:49, Nick Rogers wrote: I will use NSKeyedArchiver to create a lot of NSData objects before writing to file. I can't write one whole NSData to file because i have to write in GBs and also have to show the progress bar. So just use NSKeyedArchiver to generate a header

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Navneet Kumar
ok, so if i generate a header NSData object and write that to file, and then then write the larger NSData object, how will i read one NSData after the another. How will i know what length should I read. excuse me if this sounds very newbie to you. Wishes, Nick On 15-Apr-08, at 8:30 PM,

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Jeff LaMarche
On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Nick Rogers wrote: Hi, I am creating a file with: NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; [fileManager createFileAtPath:path contents:nil attributes:nil]; === then I got a fileHandle as: NSFileHandle *fileHandle = [NSFileHandle

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Alastair Houghton
On 15 Apr 2008, at 16:06, Navneet Kumar wrote: ok, so if i generate a header NSData object and write that to file, and then then write the larger NSData object, how will i read one NSData after the another. How will i know what length should I read. excuse me if this sounds very newbie to

Re: to write to file except NSData*

2008-04-15 Thread Jens Alfke
On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Nick Rogers wrote: but i want to write the length of (NSData *)data, before I write it to file because I will be writing a lot of NSData to the file, so that I will be able to read the length first and then read the following NSData. SO how can I write the