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<h1>Collection Translators</h1>
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<p>In .NET version TList , TDictionary, TQueue and TStack classes represent collection
translators. Internally they are used to store ArrayList, Hashtable, Queue and
Stack classes accordingly. </p>
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<p>The functionality of these translators is pretty
straightforward:</p>
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<li>OnStore
the members of the object are moved to an object array (Entry array for
TDictionary and THashtable).</li>
<li>OnActivate
a new collection object is constructed from the array values.</li>
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In general you will never need to use any of these
translators as all the work is done for you under the hood. However you might
be interested to have a look at their code if you are planning a totally new
custom collection implementation (not CollectionBase derived). The source code
for collection translators can be found in Db4objects.Db4o.Config namespace/com.db4o.config package.
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This revision (3) was last Modified 2007-08-13T17:28:46 by Tetyana.
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