Saving a TObject to a File

Question

How can one save an Object, in its current state, to a file? So that it can immediately be read and restored with all its variables.

Answer 1

You've already gotten some good answers to your question. Depending on what you're actually doing, it might be desirable to use a pre-built library or component to save objects. This is an inexpensive and nifty library/component set that makes it trivial to persist and restore objects, and pretty easily (i.e., with a little bit of code) accommodates persisting even unpublished members of an object: http://www.deepsoftware.ru/rsllib/index.html Not something that's rocket science, but if you're doing a lot of this sort of thing this component provides a nice framework for it.

Developer Express also includes a general purpose cxPropertiesStore component as part of the ExpressEditors library that comes with some of their components.