Saving And Reading A Property Bag From Disk

Storing data in a property bag internally at runtime could probably be useful on some occations, but what we're interested in is saving the data while the application is closed. Just like the .frx-files store the forms non-text contents when the project isn't opened.

Saving a property bag to disk can be done as the following method demonstrates:


The method would be called in the following manner:



Where objBag.Contents is all the data that the property bag stores, all packed into one messy Variant-variable.

Now we're got the property bag saved to disk - great! But we still need to be able to read it again, and here's how to do that:


The method would be called in the following manner:


That's really all there is to it!

You can, as mentioned, also store pictures, fonts, etc.. This without even changing the way you assign the data to the propertybag. Normally you would use Set [Object] = [Object], but you don't have to, because it of the way it's stored, so the object-files are just handled as Variant-type data.

But to extract object-data, such as picture-files, you need to use the Set ... =-syntax. Examine the example project to see how this is done.