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I said you were coming across to me as snide. I have no idea of knowing whether or not you are, but the way you phrased your responses came across that way, even when I tried to read it charitably. I said what I did to either let you know you might unintentionally have come across that way, so you w...

I also tried:
put URL("binfile:" & tFile) into tFileContents
put textDecode ( tFileContents , "UTF-8" ) into field "plist"

Did not work. Either the file is not really utf8, or that isn't the right way to do it.

I did exactly what you suggested and did NOT get garbage: in fact I got exactly the same sort of thing from a pList inside BBedit with your stack as I got with my 100 times more primitive stack from a pList outWith a stack: - Hard to tell through text, but you kind of come across as if you are bein...

Maybe an example will help. Click "Choose App". I have been using Safari as my example app, though I'm getting the same behavior with other apps. When you choose the app, it will fill in a field showing the path to the app file. Then it fills in a field with the path to the Info plist file within th...

I just copied the pList out of Text Edit onto my desktop for that "little demonstration." Yep. I can go into the package and copy the file out just fine. And as mentioned in my original post, I can open it in other applications just fine. My problem is that even though it says the file is utf8 enco...

My mission: Allow a user to select an application from an answer file dialog, then assign that application's icon to a button in the app. Why do I feel you might be better to mine an app's package for the .icns resource rather than digging around in the pList? That would work, if the icon file were...

Klaus: You wrote: 1. We are not allowed to write in folder "Applications" on the Mac! Except on your own machine with Admin permissions, not recommended nevertheless. :D And even that may end with macOS Catalina, but maybe (hopefully) I am wrong here... I am not trying to write to anything at all. I...

richmond62: Yes. And that works _just fine_ if I am not trying to read a plist file that lives inside an application package, that I have created myself. But it does not work when I attempt to read the one inside an app package that says where it's icon lives.

My mission: Allow a user to select an application from an answer file dialog, then assign that application's icon to a button in the app. The problem: An application's icon can have an arbitrary icon, and more than one icon icss file can live in the Contents / Resources directory of an application p...