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Reading array of Rectangles from XML

Started by GameDev.net Apr 16, 2013 at 4:41 PM 2 replies 1.7k views

Original Post

Apr 16, 2013 at 4:41 PM

I'm bit confused why do I have to format array of Rectangles like this:


        <SourceRect>
          0 0 48 36
          48 0 48 36
        </SourceRect>

...instead of using or tags for each component in array?

I've been using the default method described here to load XML content in to the XNA project:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff604979.aspx

Dave Hunt

Apr 18, 2013 at 1:10 AM

See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2008/08/12/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-intermediateserializer.aspx - Everything you ever wanted to know about IntermediateSerializer.

That's an optimization applied to certain types of arrays.

Dave Hunt

Apr 21, 2013 at 11:58 PM

A private constructor should work, since IntermediateSerializer user generated IL, rather than C# to do its work.

Yes, your first two statements will reference the same object and the second two will reference different objects.

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