CPersistStream Class (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

IPersistStream

     CPersistStream Class

This class is the base class for persistent properties of filters (that is, filter properties in saved graphs).

The simplest way to use CPersistStream is to:

1. Arrange for your filter to inherit this class.
2. Implement CPersistStream::WriteToStream and CPersistStream::ReadFromStream in your class. These will override the functions here, which do nothing but act as placeholders.
3. Change your NonDelegatingQueryInterface to handle IPersistStream:IPersist.
4. Implement CPersistStream::SizeMax to return an upper bound on the number of bytes of data you save.
5. If you save Unicode data, remember that a WCHAR is 2 bytes.
6. When your data changes, call CPersistStream::SetDirty.

Version Numbers

At some point you might decide to alter or extend the format of your data. You will then wish you had a version number in all the old saved streams so you can tell, when you read them, whether they represent the old or new form. To assist you, this class writes and reads a version number. When it writes, it calls CPersistStream::GetSoftwareVersion to inquire as to the version of the software being used at the moment. (In effect, this is a version number of the data layout in the file.) It writes this as the first thing in the data. If you want to change the version, implement (override) CPersistStream::GetSoftwareVersion. It reads the version number from the file into CPersistStream::mPS_dwFileVersion before calling CPersistStream::ReadFromStream, so in CPersistStream::ReadFromStream you can check CPersistStream::mPS_dwFileVersion to see if you are reading an old version file. Usually you should accept files whose version is no newer than the software version that is reading them.

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