Thread: Serialize and DeSerialize of CObArray

Need help in the Serializing and DeSerializing of an CObArray.
I know to Serialize I just do this:

CObArray testList;
testList.Serialize(ar);

so how to I take out the CObArray and assign it to another CObArray object test2List?

thanks in advance.

You need to be more precise in what you are trying to say/do.

From posted code I would say CObArray is a user defined class. The the CObArray class has a method called Serialize() that takes a single argument. You declare testlist as a CObArray object. Then you pass ar, whatever that is, to the Serialize() method of that object.

Now to the crux of the problem: Are you trying to "copy" one CObArray object to another (a process accomplished by an overloaded assignment operator, and/or a copy constructor) or do you wish to transfer data in a member variable of one object into a member variable, method of another object?

CObArray is an array of Objects.

Do you mean that CObArray is an array of objects like

objectType CObArray[numberOfObjects];

or

objectType * CObArray = new objectType[numberOFObjects];

and the line

CObArray testlist;

is gibberish. Or do you mean something like a class that has an array of objects in it. Like this:


class CObArray
{
public:
int array[numberOfObjects];
void Serialize(int);
}

in which case the line:

CObArray testline;

makes sense.

CObArray is something MS wrote, Kinda like CString.It works like so

CObArray coMyArray;

Then you have a whole bunch of methods to maniulate this array ex

coMyArray.Add(),,,,,
coMyArray.RemoveAll()....
coMyArray[2],,,,,

It stored a pointer to the object and the size is dynamicly allocated.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ss_members.asp

It works really well

Ermm let me be more precise.

I declared a CObArray Object called tempList.

code:
CObArray tempList;


Than lets say I added stuff to it.
So the should be like this:

void CModule1Doc::Serialize(CArchive& ar)
{
if (ar.IsStoring())
{
// TODO: add storing code here
// Serialize tempList
tempList.Serialize(ar)
}
else
{
// TODO: add loading code here
}
}

Now the problem I have is how to DeSerialize my tempList out.