How to convert from byte ptr to type instance ?

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marksibly

Hi,

I'd recommend using object handles instead.

At the moment, these aren't toooo elegant to use but their advantage is that you wont accidentally 'leak' objects - eg: if you convert an object to a byte ptr and there are NO references left to the object it may get accidentally 'flushed', resulting in really hard to find bugs.

You can perform object/handle conversions using functions, but it's a bit messy. For a kludge around until I clean this up...

Extern
Function bbHandleToObject:Object( handle )
Function bbHandleFromObject:Int( obj:Object )
End Extern

Type TMyType
   Field x=1
End Type

Local obj:TMyType=New TMyType

Local handle=bbHandleFromObject( obj )

obj=TMyType( bbHandleToObject( handle ) )

Print obj.x

Release handle 'done with object!