NSMutableArray containing NSValues

A real beginners question. I have a NSView subclass in which I create a . When I want to write the array to a file using writetofile:atomatically: the file is created but it contains none of the NSValues that the mutable array does contain. Does anyone know how I successfully can write this mutable array to a file?

 

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NSValues can't be saved in a plist (which is what writeToFile:atomically: does). Take a look here for the values you can save. (NSNumber is a kind of NSValue you can save, but other NSValues will fail.)

If you want to save your array with NSValues, you can use archiving instead of writeToFile:atomically:. NSArray and NSValue both support archiving, so you just convert the array to an archive and save that data to a file. (It will include the NSValues as well.) The code looks something like this:

[NSKeyedArchiver archiveRootObject: myArray toFile:@"myPath"]; 

To load it, just use

NSArray *myArray = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithFile:@"myPath"]; 

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/751093/problem-writing-a-nsmutablearray-to-file-in-cocoa