Saving an array of objects revisited

I came across this link http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=39651 while researching how to write an array of custom objects to a file. I have a custom class that I set up, based on Shane’s book, chapter 7. I’d like to write this an array of these objects to disk. I have already written my own init() as I need to set up a mutable array for one of the classes properties. Three of the properties have custom setter handlers.

What would be the proper sequence for reading/writing an array of objects?

init()
initWithCoder_(coder)
setters

initWithCoder_(coder)
init()
setters

combine init() and initWithCoder_(coder) → I wouldn’t think so as init() is being called every time a new object is created

Thanks in advance,
Brad

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Hello,

I used

and

to write/read an array of objects to and from a file.

Regards,