In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > I would first try a variant. > > Just for getting the initial DND support to work under Xlib, I limited > myself to text types only, so choose variant as my storage type, but > now that I'm moving to the next phase (multiple data types), I am > considering other storage types because I don't know if variant is > suitable for binary data like sound, images etc..
No. But it allows you to keep text as text, not as streamed value. I don't know if assigning a string to a variant is copy-on-write though. If you don't operate much on it, it doesn't matter. But the above sounds like you do most of the work on text, not binary blobs. > I'm leaning towards > TMemoryStream now. Just spotting the new incoming messages, Felipe and > Michael seem to share my thoughts on that. They didn't ask what you wanted to do exactly either :-) variants support most base Delphi types, afaik including class , interface and dyn array. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
