Saving Objects To A File

Is there any way to write and load an object to a file besides writing and reading the individual fields by just writing out the contents of the memory it occupies?Any examples would also be helpful.

Thanks.

XML is your friend. As is MaXML.

z80jim, I'm trying exactly the same thing at the moment.
I have tried...

mynew:Ttest = new Ttest
field blah, blah blah
end type.
local Myptr:byte ptr = byte ptr(mynew)
myfile:tStream=writefile("output.dat")
for count = 0 to sizeof(mynew)
  writebyte(myfile,myptr[count]
next
closefile myfile.

<this is from scratch rather than an actual program>
However, checking the output file using Hex Editor shows some of the characters transposed.
Not sure why yet but it might be the fact I have the wrong field type in my Object (long story).
You might want to try it and see what happens but, it's likely, an instance isn't in contiguous memory.
<edit> Hmmm, might try...

Local mybank:TBank=CreateStaticBank(mynew,SizeOf(mynew))
Local myfile:TStream=WriteStream("decs1.txt")
WriteBank(mybank,myfile,0,SizeOf(mynews))
CloseFile myfile

Flameduck, great tip on MaXML. Looking forward to checking it out. Probably doesn't save much work because I'm assuming I still have to feed each field to MaXML. But XML is probably a good fit for my rather large and complex save files.

I see TStream has a SaveObject() method that doesn't do anything.
I suppose one could extend TStream for your object and add a customized writer for it...

there's also a LoadObject() method...

Check out the TDataStream object in data.mod, it seems most builtin types have a data type. havent tested this myself though ;)