How do I save preferences for automatically filled in text box?

Question

G'day
I've got a popup button that lists all the external disks on my computer, and when a user picks a particular file on one of them, the path is displayed in a text field.
If I edit the field, it's saved automatically, but how do I save/update the preference bindings without editing please?
Regards
Santa

Answer 1

it's OK, I figured it out. For posterity...
First define the property...
property NSUserDefaults : class "NSUserDefaults"
then to read...
tell standardUserDefaults() of NSUserDefaults
set tempDiskPath to objectForKey_("DiskPath")
set tempDayReportDisplay to objectForKey_("DayReportDisplay")
set thetempYears1 to objectForKey_("theYearsStrings")
set tempYear to objectForKey_("tempYear")
set theDayYears1 to objectForKey_("theDayYearsStrings")
set tempdayYear to objectForKey_("tempdayYear")
end tell
the to write...
on applicationShouldTerminate_(sender)
-- Insert code here to do any housekeeping before your application quits
set tempDiskPath to DiskPath's stringValue() as text
set tempDayReportDisplay to DayReportDisplay's stringValue() as text
set thetempYears1 to (theYear's itemTitles()) as list
set tempYear to theYear's titleOfSelectedItem() as text
set theDayYears1 to (DayReportYear's itemTitles()) as list
set tempdayYear to DayReportYear's titleOfSelectedItem() as text
tell standardUserDefaults() of NSUserDefaults
setObjectforKey(tempDiskPath, "DiskPath")
setObjectforKey(tempDayReportDisplay, "DayReportDisplay")
setObjectforKey(thetempYears1, "theYearsStrings")
setObjectforKey(tempYear, "tempYear")
setObjectforKey(theDayYears1, "theDayYearsStrings")
setObjectforKey(tempdayYear, "tempdayYear")
end tell
return true -- current application's NSTerminateNow
end applicationShouldTerminate_