iOS How to enumerate and clear all my app's preferences?

[gameplayerxp]

I want to do this in my app when users click a button. Is it possible? Thanks.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Yes

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I feel silly saying just that, but I can't imagine what else to add to it.

 

[gameplayerxp]

Yes

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I feel silly saying just that, but I can't imagine what else to add to it.

Thanks. Glad to know. But my question was HOW?

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Store your preferences in an NSDictionary or NSMutableDictionary, and set up an IBAction on your button that looks something like

- (IBAction)clearPreferences:(id)sender {
	[preferences enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:^(id key, id obj, BOOL *stop) {
		/* The code that actually clears each preference... you might want
 		to do something different for each preference based on its data type...
 		like, set NSStrings to @"", and NSNumbers to 0...
 		it depends on what "clear" is in your app.
 		For example:*/

 		if ([obj isMemberOfClass:[NSString class]]) obj = @"";
	}
}

Hope that helps.

Sorry for the misunderstand... your post only said "Is it possible?", I didn't realize that in the title you'd actually asked for an example.

 

[gameplayerxp]

Store your preferences in an NSDictionary or NSMutableDictionary, and set up an IBAction on your button that looks something like

- (IBAction)clearPreferences:(id)sender {
	[preferences enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:^(id key, id obj, BOOL *stop) {
		/* The code that actually clears each preference... you might want
 		to do something different for each preference based on its data type...
 		like, set NSStrings to @"", and NSNumbers to 0...
 		it depends on what "clear" is in your app.
 		For example:*/

 		if ([obj isMemberOfClass:[NSString class]]) obj = @"";
	}
}

Hope that helps.

Sorry for the misunderstand... your post only said "Is it possible?", I didn't realize that in the title you'd actually asked for an example.

That's ok. I also noticed that I just put the right question on the topic but not in the content.

Thanks for your example. It is a bit different to my case. I am writing a reader app and some preferences are based on the book names. So these preferences are not fixed and I cannot know what they are when I am writing the code.

But your example reminds me that I can save all preference key names in a unique & global one and rebuild the dictionary from it when I need to delete them.

It's not very convenient. So really curious if there is an easier - just one function call - to do all of these. Like on Windows, if I save the preference in a file or registry, just need to delete the file or the whole reg key. That's it.

 

[jiminaus]

NSUserDefaults supports dictionary values. You could store your per-book preferences in a dictionary, then store that dictionary using NSUserDefaults with a key unique to the book. You can jettison that book's preferences by using removeObjectForKey: to remove the dictionary.

 

[gameplayerxp]

NSUserDefaults supports dictionary values. You could store your per-book preferences in a dictionary, then store that dictionary using NSUserDefaults with a key unique to the book. You can jettison that book's preferences by using removeObjectForKey: to remove the dictionary.

That's a good idea. Thanks

 

[gameplayerxp]

Finally found this: CFPreferencesCopyKeyList. I now can use it to get all preference keys and delete them one by one