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TCollection.Load

Initialize a new collection and load collection from a stream.

Declaration

Source position: objects.pp line 436

default 
  constructor Load(var S: TStream);

Description

Load initializes a new instance of a collection. It reads from stream S the item count, the item limit count, and the increase size. After that, it reads the specified number of items from the stream.

Errors

Errors returned can be those of GetItem .

See also

Name Description
TCollection.Done Clean up collection, release all memory.
TCollection.GetItem Read one item off the stream.
TCollection.Init Instantiate a new collection.

Example

Program ex22;
{ Program to demonstrate the TCollection.Load method }
Uses Objects,MyObject; { For TMyObject definition and registration }
Var C : PCollection;
    M : PMyObject;
    I : Longint;
    S : PMemoryStream;
begin
  C:=New(PCollection,Init(100,10));
  For I:=1 to 100 do
    begin
    M:=New(PMyObject,Init);
    M^.SetField(100-I);
    C^.Insert(M);
    end;
  Writeln ('Inserted ',C^.Count,' objects');
  S:=New(PMemorySTream,Init(1000,10));
  C^.Store(S^);
  C^.FreeAll;
  // Dispose(C,Done);
  S^.Seek(0);
  C^.Load(S^);
  Writeln ('Read ',C^.Count,' objects from stream.');
  Dispose(S,Done);
  Dispose(C,Done);
end.