how to copy all of one objects values into another object of the same class.

Question

I have a class called Piece
and it has some values.

In my code i have two objects currentPiece and tempPiece.

I want to say currentPiece = tempPiece.

But it doesnt seem to work... I can do currentPiece.x[0,0] = tempPiece.x[0,0];

But i have a few arrays and varibles in my class. do i ahve to do one piece at a time? is there no way to just say everything from object one go into object two?

Mark Dickinson · Answer

So so i had a class called Person and in that class it has makes a instance of a class called hand. but hand only has some ints and arrays i it. By doing the clone of class person. i could have it copy to the hole thing including the person.hand.amountOfFigures where amountOfFigures is a int. I will try what you said first. So this question can wait till after i have tried it

Alex · Answer

In your class you need to implement the ICloneable interface which has one method object Clone();. In this method all you need to say is return MemberwiseClone(); To use this method you would then do something like this (suppose the class that implements ICloneable is called Person): Person p1 = new Person()...set some properties....etc Person p2 = (Person)p1.Clone(); The only kinda gotcha is that doesn't work for reference types. Meaning if you have a member/property in your class that's an object it will not make a deep copy rather it'll only copy a reference to the same object. string's int's arrays are all fine though....