writing data to plist?

[ravi.m@tekmunk.com]

hi all,
i am new to iphone applications,i am reading the data from plist and when i click the button the data should be write in to the plist data.
here my problem is to write the data into the value field under income array .and totalsalary.

here is my plist data:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>income</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Salary</string>
<key>value</key> //here i have to write the data into value
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Bonus</string>
<key>value</key> //here i have to write the data into value
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Rent</string>
<key>value</key> //here i have to write the data into value
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Miscellenious</string>
<key>value</key> //here i have to write the data into value
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</array>
<key>categories</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Shopping</string>
<key>items</key>
<array>
<string>forClothes</string>
<string>forThings</string>
<string>miscellenious</string>
</array>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Food</string>
<key>items</key>
<array>
<string>inRestarent</string>
<string>outSide</string>
<string>miscellanious</string>
</array>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Householdings</string>
<key>items</key>
<array>
<string>Rent</string>
<string>Current</string>
<string>miscellenious</string>
</array>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>title</key>
<string>Health</string>
<key>items</key>
<array>
<string>hospital</string>
<string>medicine</string>
<string>miscellenious</string>
</array>
</dict>
</array>
<key>totalsalary</key> //here i have to write the data into value
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

thanks,
ravi.

[bytor99999]

If the plist is an existing plist included with your app, it is put into a directory that you cannot write to. So you will have to write code to read the data and rewrite it to a different file in a different directory. Once that is done once, then you should read and write from that new writable file.

There are lots of tutorials out there with the exact code you can check out

But here is my code all in my App Delegate. kDataFile is the name of my writable file

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {		
	NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
	
	NSString *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@.%@", [self getFilePath], kDataFileName, @".plist"]; 
	if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath:filePath]) {
		NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
		filePath = [bundle pathForResource:kDataFileName ofType:@"plist"];
	}
	self.dataInPList = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath];

...
}

- (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application {
	// Save data if appropriate
	NSString *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@.%@", [self getFilePath], kDataFileName, @".plist"]; 
	[dataInPList writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
}

- (NSString *)getFilePath {	
	NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
	NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
	return documentsDirectory;
}

Mark

[ddot]

hi guys, i am trying to save data to the plist in my app per person, but it save it to everyone, so for example if i have a field for eye color and i enter brown in the textfield for john doe, it save brown for everyone else as well, is there a way to save this info per person in the app instead using plist, i have had no luck trying

thanks