Hi Everyone,

I experimented a bit with the preferences application and especially the plists. If you go in the directory Applications/Preferences.app you will see a number of them. The plists are parsed by the preferences application. Depending on the content, the preferences are shown. This means, by changing the plists you can change the configuration and most importantly, add missing things. I started with the Keyboard.plist. When you open the file you find an entry like this:

<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSSwitchCell</string>
<key>default</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.Preferences</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>KeyboardCapsLock</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Enable Caps Lock</string>
</dict>

the cell defines the way the option is presented to you, in the example, a PSSwitchCell is a simple on/off switch. There are a number of other cells available. In the example, the value for the cell is read from and written to the KeyboardCapsLock variable. It is also possible to define a get and set function (which could be quite interesting)...

When you search for the term "KeyboardCapsLock" you will see that it is defined in a file named "UIKit" and that there is another quite interesting variable nearby called "KeyboardAutocorrection". So, by adding the following lines to your keyboard.plist:

</dict>
<dict>
<key>cell</key>
<string>PSSwitchCell</string>
<key>default</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>defaults</key>
<string>com.apple.Preferences</string>
<key>key</key>
<string>KeyboardAutocorrection</string>
<key>label</key>
<string>Enable Autocorrection</string>
</dict>

and uploading the changed file to your iPhone, you can finally turn off the autocorrection function. This is nice if you typically type in a foreign language. I also scanned the other plists a bit. One extremely interesting one is Safari.plist, located in a bundle (however, called by the preferences application).

\System\Library\PreferenceBundles\MobileSafariSett ings.bundle

If you look inside and search for "WebKitJavaScriptEnabled" (one of the values of the file) you will see that it is defined in a file called WebKit that offers a large number of other possible interesting variables, for example "WebKitJavaEnabled" (hmmm...) WebKitDebug, WebKitLogLevel, WebKitDefaultFontSize and so on. I tried the same trick as described above but this time, unfortunately, my encoded plist was not correctly accepted by the iPhone (I don't know why)... I think that there is a binary version needed. So, if you have a mac and can do a binary version please try it, I would be interested to know.

hmm, i tried disabling the auto correction, but it seems not to work:

i edited the keyboard.plist on a mac with the sample xml-code you supplied.
i converted the plist to xml , edited, than converted back to binary, and finally putfile it on the iphone.
(i used this method for converting plist<->xml)

log:
Waiting for phone... established.
iPhone state: MissingSIM
type "help" for help
iPhone:/# cd /Applications/Preferences.app/
iPhone:/Applications/Preferences.app/# putfile Keyboard.plist
iPhone:/Applications/Preferences.app/# cd /System
iPhone:/System# cd /Library
iPhone:/Library# cd /System/Library/Lockdown
iPhone:/System/Library/Lockdown# putfile Services.plist
iPhone:/System/Library/Lockdown# exit

But the auto-correction is still there. any ideas?

Please check your Preferences Appl ication. It should be possible now to turn it off under the "Keyboard" Settings.

Zhivago, great work! Please, can you send photo of Prefs App with this option visible? I'm from Czech, so i realy would like to show that this is possible.

@zhivago: thx, worked great.

@maler: here you go.

That's so coool Thank you booth (but zhivago is Master .

Yeah, he is!

that is cool

thanx!

The Download of the already edited Keyborad.plist-File. (its binary, not xml - shoul work fine, just copy and of you go)

http://www.iphone-ticker.de/wp-conte...boardplist.zip

zhivago, regarding other plists, which are binary - i did small research for some Windows based plist editor, but nothing found yet - you can check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list
maybe there can be some java editor somewehere hidden... But i'm not sure about binary compatibility with Mac OS X binary .plist. If you want, PM me, i can do some mods for you tommorow evening at home (GMT +2).

This i found in other thread, some CGI able to convert binary .plist.
http://homer.informatics.indiana.edu...il/plutil.cgi/