Mock Hard Drive Architecture

Nick

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Post: #1

Jun 16, 2005 — 03:58 PM

If I wanted my game to generate a mock-hard drive architecture where the user can go through files and folders, should I use NSDictionary? It sounded good but once I started I wondered if that would be too much work for the task. Any suggestions? The idea is not to get the current computer's folders and files, but just so I can make a virtual computer with a folder set up. Thanks in advance and for all the previous (and future) help.

OneSadCookie

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Post: #2

Jun 16, 2005 — 04:52 PM

sounds reasonable.

Nick

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Jun 16, 2005 — 06:31 PM

Ok. I used Property List Editor and got this file:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

    <key>My Documents</key>

    <dict>

        <key>Files</key>

        <array>

            <string>file1.txt</string>

            <string>file2.txt</string>

            <string>file3.txt</string>

            <string>file4.txt</string>

        </array>

        <key>My Pictures</key>

        <dict>

            <key>Files</key>

            <array>

                <string>pic1.jpg</string>

                <string>pic2.jpg</string>

                <string>pic3.jpg</string>

                <string>pic4.jpg</string>

            </array>

            <key>Name</key>

            <string>My Pictures</string>

        </dict>

        <key>Name</key>

        <string>My Documents</string>

    </dict>

    <key>Name</key>

    <string>root</string>

</dict>

</plist>

But when I use initWithContentsOfFile:@"computer" (computer.plist is the file name) it returns nil. Did I forget something or am I just doing this wrong?

Josh

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Post: #4

Jun 16, 2005 — 08:15 PM

Nick Wrote:But when I use initWithContentsOfFile:@"computer" (computer.plist is the file name) it returns nil. Did I forget something or am I just doing this wrong?

I don't recall where initWithContentsOfFile searches from, but it's not the Resources directory. So in short: are you sure the path is right?

Nick

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Post: #5

Jun 16, 2005 — 08:37 PM

I've also put computer.plist in the build directory and it still didn't work.

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Post: #6

Jun 16, 2005 — 08:46 PM

This is some old code of mine, there is probably a better way...

initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]] pathForResource:@"computer" ofType:@"plist"]];

old site

Nick

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Post: #7

Jun 16, 2005 — 09:49 PM

Thanks a bunch. That got it to work.

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