Read plist from Carbon

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Andrei Korostelev - 27 Sep 2007 13:45 GMT

Hi folks,

Is it a way to read a plist file from the Carbon app, that is using
Carbon API and maybe lower-level API, but not Cocoa API?

To be specific I need to know the default browser. I det retrieve this
info from ~/Library/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist file. The problem
is that this file is in a binary format, not in xml.

What I can think of now is to convert this file to xml format with
'plutil' utility and then parse, however such a solution looks rather
clumsy to me. Any hints?

Mac OS X 10.4

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Jolly Roger - 27 Sep 2007 18:55 GMT

> Hi folks,
>
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> 'plutil' utility and then parse, however such a solution looks rather
> clumsy to me. Any hints?

Would CFPreferences not work for this?:

<http://tinyurl.com/29tjzr>

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Read plist from Carbon