Post #831061
2026-03-29 02:06 UTC
@bwebster@mastodon.social @troz@mastodon.social i thought state restoration was just to get the app back to where it was when it was last running. that’s not quite what i’m after.
i can open an Xcode project. select a specific item. then close the project.
when i come back to that project a year later (even if i’ve viewed 100 projects in between. and xcode will open my old project just as it was when i last looked at it.
it’s not app state. it’s not project file data.
it’s project/workspace state.
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@bwebster@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 04:04
@isaiah@mastodon.social @troz@mastodon.social That’s correct, so scene storage/state restoration definitely wouldn’t fit the bill. I don’t think the frameworks have any built in solution for per document state, so it’s a roll-your-own world. I have seen a couple apps store stuff in xattrs if it’s small. Might not survive copying to certain drive formats, but otherwise pretty easy out-of-band storage.