Re: Never use Storable to save XS objects

[ysth]

It depends; ideally modules mucking about as Wx::Bitmap seems to would provide Storable hooks to be properly serializable. (See Storable)

[simonflk]

ysth says:

It depends; ideally modules mucking about as Wx::Bitmap seems to would provide Storable hooks to be properly serializable

Nice, I'd missed/forgotten about those hooks. I don't think it'll work for Wx objects that are subclasses of Wx::Window. But it'd probably work fine for Wx::Bitmap. Here's some untested code for (de)?serialising Wx::Bitmaps...

   my $bitmap_data = $wx_bitmap->GetImage->GetData;
   # serialise bitmap data
   # later...
   $wx_bitmap = new Wx::Image()->SetData($bitmap_data)->GetBitmap;