Re: Can't read CString after serialization

From:
Alexh <alexh1@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<20ca5115-dcf9-4d54-997a-b97f18feb16e@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
Thought I'd add the actual store and load code-

CFile AspectDatFile;
AspectDatFile.Open(acPath, CFile::modeCreate | CFile::modeWrite);
CArchive archive1(&AspectDatFile, CArchive::store, 40960);

//AspectArrayHelioData generated here

AspectArrayHelioData.Serialize(archive1);
archive1.Close();
AspectDatFile.Close();

CFile AspectDatFile;
if (AspectDatFile.Open(acPath, CFile::modeRead) != 0){
    CArchive archive2(&AspectDatFile, CArchive::load, 4960);
    TempAspectArrayHelio.Serialize(archive2);
    archive2.Close();

    AspectDatFile.Close();
}

On Mar 10, 11:23 pm, Alexh <ale...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Thanks for the info - in my app the store to file would typically only
be done once after install but the read would be done often. I'm using
Visual Studio C++ 2005, no unicode. Here is my serialization code.
Pretty basic compared to the examples in the reference you provided.
The last item m_AspectStr is the only CString item. In my code I also
archive a different CArray to file and it never fails but it has no
CString items.

The other odd thing is that when I generate the archive, often the
read will work for a while but eventually it fails as I described.

IMPLEMENT_SERIAL(CPlanetAspect, CObject,1)

CPlanetAspect::CPlanetAspect()
{

}

CPlanetAspect::~CPlanetAspect()
{

}

void CPlanetAspect::Serialize(CArchive& ar)
{
        CObject::Serialize(ar);
        if (ar.IsStoring()){
                ar << m_BarNum
                        << m_Date
                        << m_NatalT=

ransit1

                        << m_Planet=

1

                        << m_Planet=

1Deg

                        << m_Aspect=

                        << m_NatalT=

ransit2

                        << m_Planet=

2

                        << m_Planet=

2Deg

                        << m_Aspect=

Str;

        }
        else{
                ar >> m_BarNum
                        >> m_Date
                        >> m_NatalT=

ransit1

                        >> m_Planet=

1

                        >> m_Planet=

1Deg

                        >> m_Aspect=

                        >> m_NatalT=

ransit2

                        >> m_Planet=

2

                        >> m_Planet=

2Deg

                        >> m_Aspect=

Str;

        }

}

On Mar 10, 10:32 pm, "Tom Serface" <tom.nos...@camaswood.com> wrote:

You didn't say which version of C++ you are using (although you did ment=

ion

one of the ATL functions), but this might be your problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193100

Are you building in Unicode? Perhaps you could also list your seriali=

zing

code and that might reveal something. These kinds of problems are why=

 I

typically don't use serializing any more. I like to use XML, but any =

kind

of ASCII based file format would work in my opinion. They are easier =

to

read when you want to change the versions and/or access it from another
program. You may also find this article interesting:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/serialization_primer1.aspx

Note, this is part 1 of 3 parts.

Tom

"Alexh" <ale...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message

news:9d0514d8-6156-4bd2-9e94-8b8da3292b60@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

I have a CArray <MyClass, MyClass&> MyClassArray. MyClass contains
various elements, int, double and a CString (ex. MyString).
MyClass.cpp has the necessary Serialize statement.

In my code, MyClassArray is generated as necessary and serialized to a=

file. Later it is read from the file and restored into MyClassArray.
At this point I get an error whenever I access the CString element in
MyClass.

I can access all other int or double elements in MyClass just fine.
However, any access of the form -

MyCArray.GetAt(i).MyString or -

MyClass = MyCArray.GetAt(i);
MyString1 = MyClass.MyString;

gives a run time error in the MS file atlsimpstr.h. Here is the line
from the file-

// This is a part of the Active Template Library.
// Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation
// All rights reserved.

static CStringData* __cdecl CloneData( __in CStringData* pData )
{
CStringData* pNewData = NULL;

IAtlStringMgr* pNewStringMgr = pData->pStringMgr->Clone(); /////this=

line fails

All of the vars on that line are reporting as "expression cannot be
evaluated". Any idea what's going on here? I don't think it's
something obvious because as I said, all of the numeric elements are
accessible.

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