June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
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The Info.plist File
Metainformation about your project, which you usually define through
Xcode’s Project→Edit Active Target
(Option-
-E) dialog, is stored in a special
Info.plist file, which Xcode writes to the
application’s /Contents folder
upon building. Every Bundle-style application on your system (that
is, every Cocoa application and every Bundle-style Carbon or Java
application as well) has one of these files, which are, like all
.plist files, in Property List XML format
(described in Chapter 25).
Taken together, all the
/Applications/
AppName
.app/Contents/Info.plist
files installed in all the filesystem’s
domain-level Applications folders compose a registry of all
applications available to the machine. This lets the system build a
database of application information, which lets the Finder assign the
correct Kind to application-specific files under
its List view and Info windows, the defaults
program pair preference domains to applications (see Chapter 25), and more. The application itself can also
pull information from this file to help build its About dialog, for
example, as well as to find out what file format its own documents
use.
A related file,
version.plist,
can exist in the same directory as
Info.plist
. As its name suggests, it contains
information about the applications’ version and
build numbers, as well as release status.
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