29.8. Serializing a CRuntimeClass
Here’s a special bit of MFC arcana that took quite a while to figure out! How do we serialize a CRuntimeClass ? Here’s an example of how to do it from force.cpp file. The long comment explains why this was a difficult thing to do.
void cForceClassEvade::Serialize(CArchive &ar) { cForce::Serialize(ar); /* I had a hard time figuring out how to serialize the CRuntimeClass *_pnodeclass. (1) You can’t call _pnodeclass.Serialize(ar), as this is not a method of CRuntimeClass. (2) Nor can you save off the CRuntimeClass m_lpszClassName field and try and use RUNTIME_CLASS to reconstruct it, as RUNTIME_CLASS requires a literal argument and not a CString. (3) MFC provides a CArchive::SerializeClass(CRuntimeClass *prtc). ...Get Software Engineering and Computer Games now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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