Use the Plist dictionary for application settings

Question

I want to be able to use plist for Im settings implementing in my application. I want the Settings dictionary to save my arrays such as Debug, Option 1, Option 2, etc. How do I access the Debug array in the Settings dictionary?

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); 
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; 
NSString *myPlistPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"ProfileManager.plist"]; 
NSDictionary *plistDict = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:myPlistPath]; 

swDebug.on = [plistDict objectForKey:@"Debug"];

.plist

<?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>Current Profile</key>
<string>Sample Profile</string>
<key>Custom Profiles</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>autolock</key>
        <false/>
        <key>bluetooth</key>
        <false/>
        <key>desc</key>
        <string>Example profile provided by the application</string>
        <key>edge</key>
        <false/>
        <key>phone</key>
        <false/>
        <key>push</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ringtone</key>
        <string>Example.m4r</string>
        <key>threeg</key>
        <false/>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>Example Profile</string>
        <key>vibrate</key>
        <false/>
        <key>wifi</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>autolock</key>
        <false/>
        <key>bluetooth</key>
        <false/>
        <key>desc</key>
        <string>Sample profile provided by the application</string>
        <key>edge</key>
        <false/>
        <key>phone</key>
        <false/>
        <key>push</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ringtone</key>
        <string>Sample.m4r</string>
        <key>threeg</key>
        <false/>
        <key>title</key>
        <string>Sample Profile</string>
        <key>vibrate</key>
        <false/>
        <key>wifi</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
</array>
<key>Settings</key>
<dict>
    <key>Debug</key>
    <string>ON</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Answer 1

In your example, Debug is a string, not an array (this is what you seem to say in the question). In any case, the problem is that you are accessing the key in the wrong dict. You have:

swDebug.on = [plistDict objectForKey:@"Debug"];

You will need:

swDebug.on = [[plistDict objectForKey:@"Settings"] objectForKey:@"Debug"];

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