
Using NSApplication 9 355
Accessors
These methods get and set instance variables. The
note in the previous section about changers applies here, too.
Persistence (Storage)
ThepropertyListRepresentation
method creates a new dictionary object and populates it with
this entry's data. Each DataEntry object generates its own dic-
tionary; all of these dictionaries are consolidated into a Diary-
wide dictionary.
Persistence(Retrieval)
From the DiaryData
unloadFrom-
Dictionary
method, the static (Java) or class (Objective-C)
method entryFromPropertyLis tRepresentation
is
called to create a new entry, it, in [urn, calls 1
oadmroperty-
Listmepresentati ...