comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive

Home » Public Forums » archive » Copying objects

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Copying objects [message #18151 is a reply to message #18093]

Thu, 02 December 1999 00:00

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

J.D. Smith (jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu) writes:

> The easiest way to copy objects in bulk, composited objects and all, is to save
> and restore, using:
>
> save,obj,FILENAME=savefile
> restore,savefile,RESTORED_OBJECTS=newobj,/RELAXED_STRUCTURE_ ASSIGNMENT
> newobj=newobj[0]
>
> Don't forget that the object reference variable is also restored, and will
> overwrite a variable with the same name in that level (but this can be used to
> advantage -- see below). Also beware of later restoring objects, since their
> methods (and those of their superclasses) will be unavailable, and will not be
> located automatically. You can prevent this... see a posting from last year on
> restoring objects (I can re-post my resolve_obj if necessary).

The lightly edited conversation JD refers to on the
newsgroup about restoring objects can be found here:

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/saved_objects.html

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Copying objects By: James Tappin on Tue, 30 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Copying objects By: davidf on Fri, 03 December 1999 00:00
		Re: Copying objects By: J.D. Smith on Fri, 03 December 1999 00:00
		Re: Copying objects By: davidf on Thu, 02 December 1999 00:00
		Re: Copying objects By: J.D. Smith on Thu, 02 December 1999 00:00
		Re: copying objects By: Ingo von Borstel on Fri, 27 July 2007 00:20
		Re: copying objects By: Robbie on Thu, 26 July 2007 16:58

Previous Topic:	copying objects
Next Topic:	=?utf-8?B?4peY4pa6TGVnYWxseSBBY2Nlc3MgRlJFRSBTYXRlbGxpdGUgVFYgb24geW91ciBQQ+KXhOKXmA==?=

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sun Oct 12 04:56:21 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 1.68345 seconds