Unique keys for getProperty()/setProperty() ?

Former Member over 10 years ago

There doesn't seem to be anything in the API docs or Programmers Guide PDF about choosing keys for Application getProperty()/setProperty().

I was very surprised to find my test app reading properties that had been previously set by a completely different app! (the samples/ObjectStore). Surely each app should have private properties that cannot be read or written to by other apps? Or at a minimum there needs to be an agreed scheme to let users choose unique keys for their own apps?

Thanks

YOHCOP over 10 years ago

This is probably a bug with the emulator.
It was commented here that there would (unfortunately) be no way for 2 apps to communicate or share properties. I'd love to be wrong though ;)

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

Yeah, I'm almost certain that this is just an issue with the emulator. It appears to create a file that holds the persistent data in %temp%\GARMIN\APPS\DATA\APP.str. As you can see, the file isn't unique to the application, so you'll get the settings from the other program unless you delete the file between runs.

Kyle.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

This is an issue with the Windows simulator. This is on our list to be fixed, but in the mean time you can delete %temp%\GARMIN\APPS\DATA\APP.str when switching apps to prevent reading another app's property.