iOS How to load and cache resources files mentioned in xml / plist when app start?

[webphone]

There is a Resources folder which I store png images and sound files

e.g.
Resources/images/splash.png
Resources/sound/intro.caf

I want to store the path and file names in a xml or plist file.

So that it can be configured easily when development.

The XML schema:
<resources>
<images>
<file name="splash.png" />
</images>
<sound>
<file name="intro.caf" />
</sound>
</resources>

I am not sure how to create the plist to store those values.

I saw a code in a project but it seems to load the plist file:

[[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] addSpriteFramesWithFile"Splash.plist"];

My question is how is the objective-c code to load and cache resources files mentioned in xml / plist when app start?

 

[cnstoll]

You want two things:

1) When your app loads you want to read the plist file into an NSData object,

2) and then convert that into a NSDictionary to read your data from.

Look at the NSData, NSFileManager, and NSDictionary documentation, it should have what you need. Specifically look at the NSFileManager "contentsAtPath:UIPath" method which returns an NSData object, and the NSData method "propertyListFromData:NSData" method which returns a dictionary.

You can call that initialization stuff from basically anywhere you want, and just initialize your variables from the data in the dictionary.

Hope that helps.

 

[dejo]

Specifically look at the NSFileManager "contentsAtPath:UIPath" method which returns an NSData object...

You could also consider just using NSData's dataWithContentsOfFile: class method.