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Reference for unit 'Classes' (#rtl)

TStream.WriteDescendent

Write component data to a stream, relative to an ancestor

Declaration

Source position: classesh.inc line 867

public procedure TStream.WriteDescendent(

Instance: TComponent;

Ancestor: TComponent

);

Description

WriteDescendent writes the state of Instance to the stream where it differs from Ancestor, i.e. only the changed properties are written to the stream.

WriteDescendent creates a TWriter object and calls its WriteDescendent object. The writer is passed a binary driver object by default.