* Save/Load FH Item Pointer

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Save/Load FH Item Pointer

Post by tatewise » 24 Feb 2013 19:40

Any LUA FH API Item Pointer is an object of type Userdata.
It appears to be impossible to Save such objects outside a Plugin, and later Load them back into a Plugin, unless anyone knows different.

It would be useful to have API Methods that translate any Item Pointer to and from another object type, or table of object types, that can be Saved/Loaded, i.e. Strings &/or Numbers.
These Methods would be similar to the Methods that operate on Date and Date Point objects to convert to and from Strings & Numbers.

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