Read trackpad system preferences programmatically Mac Os X Mavericks

Question

for one of my program, I need to be able to read (not write) the user's trackpad system preferences programmatically.

I've read that CFPreferences should be able to help me, but I failed in finding any sample code that would show me how to simply be able to list all the preferences of a specified System preference pane (e.g, trackpad).

How could I achieve that?

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

sorry it's a little late to answer this post.

The defaults command-line tool allows you to configure your system preferences.

If you just want to read the values, type defaults read.

You can specify a domain name to be more specific. In your case you want trackpad settings so type defaults read com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad. This will give you all the trackpad settings.

You can also check man defaultsfor more information.