Conclusion

Property bags let you store all kinds of data in a very simple and painless fasion. It's very usefull for applications where "real" custom resource files would be overkill. If you want to be able to store and retrive data from inside Class-objects, then take a look at the extended property bag class, which can be found here: www.paradoxes.info/code/PropertyBagClass.html.

A very simple example project using the techniques explained in this tutorial can be found here.

Tutorial written by Anders "Sion" Nissen, 11th October 2004.
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