create a plist from script with iRev

[Thomas McGrath III]

This is a good site for info on this. Thanks Jim

Am checking it out now...

Tom McGrath III
Lazy River Software
3mcgrath at comcast.net

iTunes Library Suite - libITS
Information and download can be found on this page:
http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html


On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Jim Ault wrote:

> Thomas McGrath:   here are a couple Interesting web pages
>
>
> http://www.dunnington.net/entry/data-driven-iphone-apps-with-property-lists-and-php
>
>
> The plutil comes with Xcode development toolkit on Mac OS X. Erica  
> Sadun has ported it to iPhone. This is a neat tool to process  
> the .plist files.
> The ported plutil is here: plutil for iPhone
> http://george.insideiphone.com/index.php/2007/12/05/plutil-a-nifty-tool-to-edit-plist-files/
>
>
>
> Google "plutil php"
> and you will also find    plutil.exe for windows    on the listing.
>
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:35 AM, Luis wrote:
>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> If this is for On-Rev (which I believe can handle Perl) you could  
>> load plutil.pl on the server and have it convert to XML and Text:
>>
>> http://scw.us/iPhone/plutil/
>>
>> (Wikipedia 'Webarchive' for more infos).
>>
>> On 6 Jan 2010, at 09:41, Jim Ault wrote:
>>
>>> Idea:
>>> You could send the plist file to a Rev cgi running on OSX and it  
>>> would return the result, or perhaps an iPhone app (as it might  
>>> have plutil in its operating system)
>>>
>>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com 
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone have a way or explanation on how to create a plist  
>>>>> file on
>>>>> revOnline via script???
>>>>>
>>>>> It turns out that Apple recommends using a pList over json or  
>>>>> xml for
>>>>> transferring data via NSUrl.
>>>>>
>>>>> There would be a lot of things I could do if I knew how to  
>>>>> create them.
>>>>>
>>>>> (on the desktop I can do them and upload manually but then I  
>>>>> would still
>>>>> have to populate them online)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tom, I have a stack that I use for editing plist files:
>>>> http://www.troz.net/rev/stacks/PlistEditor.rev
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you could start with an existing plist and use the  
>>>> scripts in
>>>> here to modify them.
>>>> When you say revOnline, do you mean On-Rev? revOnline doesn't allow
>>>> anything other than stack hosting does it?
>>>> As regards On-Rev, the servers are Linux machines, so the plutil
>>>> command will not be available, as it is OS X only.
>>>>
>
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