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raarky YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	object deep copy Nov 27th, 2008, 2:51pm   is there something in processing that will let me do a deep copy easily? i want to copy a custom object into a new instance without the new one referencing the old one. eg: Seed seed1 = new Seed(); Seed seed2 = seed1.Clone();

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: object deep copy Reply #1 - Nov 27th, 2008, 3:09pm   I don't think so. Making a generic Clone() would need a non-trivial use of reflection... I believe you should make your own copy constructor, for example.

raarky YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Re: object deep copy Reply #2 - Nov 27th, 2008, 3:28pm   ok thanks for that.. thought it wouldve been good to ask sometimes these things exist and when you find out about them theres usually a big "doh" involved