look at the demo in the tutorial and the associated demo. It handles exactly the situation you describe. Look at the documentation under Export Robert Ramey "Andrei Popa" <andrei4popa@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:BAY104-W9813D6D7DBBCD9A35DC0CE05C0@phx.gbl... Hallo all, I just discovered the serialization library found it extremely nice and useful. I appreciate all work of the author. I have not yet build any program with the library, I just read the documentation. There is one think that do not fit to my use: "typeid information is not included in archives". The reason is "archive portability" and the solution "same sequence by save/load". But what if I do not know the sequence? What can I do then? Think about a CAD program. I do not know what the user will draw, a line, circle, rectangle and so on. And I have to save them in a file, at the load I need to know what type of object do I load. For me the "archive portability" is not so important. Is there a way to configure/change the library to save the name of the class specified by std::type_of::name() in the archive? Best regards, Andrei ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users