Software Engineering and Computer Games

29.1. Serialization summary

Here’s a summary of how to serialize the data in a CDocument class.

• Use the Resource Editor to change the document string to use a distinctive file extension for your files.

• If your document has any data members that are instances of a class cMyClass which you wrote, define the cMyClass as a child of CObject (or as a child of some other class which inherits from CObject ) and add the DECLARE_SERIAL and IMPLEMENT_SERIAL macros to, respectively, the cMyClass definition in the *.h file and the cMyClass implementation in the *.cpp file.

• Override the cMyClass::Serialize(CArchive &ar) method so that it writes and reads the data members of cMyClass, according to whether or not ar.IsStoring() is TRUE. Be sure to write and read ...