Register user defaults for a checkbox?

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#1

I’m registering some user defaults in my application as follows:

tell defaults to registerDefaults_({tagDestination:“Overwrite existing comments”, genreStartDelim:“(”, genreEndDelim:“)”, genreDelimiterEnabled:“0”}}

genreDelimiterEnabled is a checkbox, but using the value of 0 doesn’t seem to work.

I was just wondering what the value should be registered as?

And better yet where are these defaults that are written documented?

#2

You’re using the string “0” – use the number 0 instead.

#3

Ok. How to I know which type a particular object will be writing for it’s defaults?

#4

You look it up in the documentation. In the case of a button, what you are storing is its state, and the -state method says it returns an integer.

#5

Whenever you put something in quotes like that, it will be a string/text.

“0” is not the same as 0


set anExample to "0" -- string/text
set anExample to 0 -- number/integer
#6

I recognize the difference between a string and an integer :slight_smile:

What I am having trouble with is navigating the Apple documentation to a place where it shows which method is called on an object when it’s value is to be stored in the Shared User Defaults.

#7

Just think in terms of the method you would use if you were doing it manually.