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Revision as of 18:46, 7 April 2013

For those who want to read and write preferences for an application on the Mac, this can be done using the following methods:

CODE FOR READING PREFERENCES
 uses MacOSAll, CFPreferences;
 var
   IValid: Boolean;
   Pref: Integer;
 procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
 begin
   try
      Pref := CFPreferencesGetAppIntegerValue(CFStr('Check1'),kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication,IValid);
      if (Pref = 1) then
      begin
         CheckBox1.Checked := true;
      end
      else begin
         CheckBox1.Checked := false;
      end;
      Pref := CFPreferencesGetAppIntegerValue(CFStr('Check2'),kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication,IValid);
      if (Pref = 1) then
      begin
         CheckBox2.Checked := true;
      end
      else begin
         CheckBox2.Checked := false;
      end;
      Pref := CFPreferencesGetAppIntegerValue(CFStr('Check3'),kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication,IValid);
      if (Pref = 1) then
      begin
         CheckBox3.Checked := true;
      end
      else begin
         CheckBox3.Checked := false;
      end;
      Pref := CFPreferencesGetAppIntegerValue(CFStr('Check4'),kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication,IValid);
      if (Pref = 1) then
      begin
         CheckBox4.Checked := true;
      end
      else begin
         CheckBox4.Checked := false;
      end;
   except
     on E : Exception do
       ShowMessage(E.ClassName+' error raised, with message : '+E.Message);
   end;
 end;


CODE FOR WRITING PREFERENCES
 uses MacOSAll, CFPreferences;
 var
   ItemName: CFStringRef;
   ItemVal: CFPropertyListRef;
 procedure TForm1.FormClose(Sender: TObject; var CloseAction: TCloseAction);
 begin
   try
      if (CheckBox1.Checked) then
      begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check1');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'1',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end
      else begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check1');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'0',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end;
      if (CheckBox2.Checked) then
      begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check2');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(nil,'1',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end
      else begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check2');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'0',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end;
      if (CheckBox3.Checked) then
      begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check3');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'1',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end
      else begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check3');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'0',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end;
      if (CheckBox4.Checked) then
      begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check4');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'1',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end
      else begin
         ItemName := CFStr('Check4');
         ItemVal := CFStringCreateWithPascalString(kCFAllocatorDefault,'0',kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
         CFPreferencesSetAppValue(ItemName,ItemVal,kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
      end;
      CFPreferencesAppSynchronize(kCFPreferencesCurrentApplication);
    except
    on E : Exception do
        ShowMessage(E.ClassName+' error raised, with message : '+E.Message);
    end;

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