Saving Settings

I want to set up a window where the user can pick the color background he or she wants for the entire program, so all windows will have this color background. I am guessing you would use buttons to choose the colors. But what I also want is when the user exits the program, the color picked will save, and the next time the app launches, that color will be the background of all windows. I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me do this, I am not very good in Objective C. Thanks!

First of all, you won't need a button, you need a NSColorWell, which will allow you to set the color. Then, as mentioned earlier, you can use NSUserDefaults to set the values. I highly reccommend buying Cocoa Programming in Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. Then, study the RaiseMan sample program he gives you. This shows you about NSColorWells and NSUserDefaults. By copying pieces of the code from there, you'll be able to do the same with what you want to do.

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I am a bit upset about DVD Studio Pro overriding the energy saving settings. It means if you do a serious render you will find yourself with the monitor on for hours and days. On the Imacs you can't even fully dim down the screen to switch it of manually.
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Anyone else having trouble saving settings in Battery?
Here's an example of the problem:
1. Open Session1 in Logic (X or 9), open an instance of Battery, open a kit (e.g. 909 Detailed Kit), save, close.
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js

Maybe you missed previous posts.
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Panoholic wrote:
I guess the meaning of "open standard" is, that it is open to anyone to write the documentation.
Well, considering that "Camera Raw Saved Settings" are not specifically a function of DNG I think that comment is inaccurate and unfair. XMP allows new and custom name spaces and fields as part of the XMP specification (which is not directly tied to the DNG spec). The fact that Adobe has chosen to extend (XMP = EXtensible Metadata Platform) the XMP fields to include CRSS (Camera Raw/Lightroom "Snapshots") is more a proof oc concept of the usefulness of XMP metadata and less am indictment of DNG's "openess".
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Saving settings within a document

Please forgive my relative inexperience, but I'm trying to find a way to do this.
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What are best energy saving settings to use for the macbook?

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When I'm logged in as the main user getting a ton of problems including;
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lhaw wrote:
the only thing that works is setting up a new user and logging in there. Most of the problems seem to go away but all my files, itunes library, etc are under my other user.
so, anyone have any ideas? if not, is there an easy way to transfer all my files, itunes library (hopefully including playlists!), etc?
Sounds like something malicious or malfunctioning in your user.
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No you don't have to go through all that. Something to think about in the future when you switch machines or need to transfer to another user.
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Bridge not saving settings.

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Thank you for the information, it is most helpful.
Of course you are correct about me having bridge set to "autoload on
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ITunes not saving settings

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Saving settings on itunes

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I was able to fix a problem where iTunes 12.01 would not recognize my iPhone or iPad but the device WAS recognized in iPhoto.
Another website gave me the hint to download and re-install iTunes. I did this and it worked. (I also restarted both the Mac and iPhone and iPad afterward for good measure).
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File saving settings. I want to save as ACM Waveform as a default

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I did a speed test and saw no difference. When I was fully succesful awhile back with it things were better. For some reason its no longer saving the settings.
Solved!
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If it works properly for you the fios optimizer works great imo.
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Windows 8 not saving settings

I have a problem with Windows 8 Pro.
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Even the setting of Other Software's are also not saving, for example, when i change settings of media player's and restart my pc its reverted to default. Even the download history of Internet Download Manager is also reverted back when i shutdown.
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I suspect you installed any third party software which restores the previous state. Please check that.
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