Subj : [SpiderMonkey] Saving Global State
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "ggadwa@charter.net" <ggadwa@charter.net>
Date : Tue Feb 10 2004 12:22 pm

OK, I have one last thing to work out with the engine, then I'm done :)

This might not be possible, or might just be very complex.  Complex is 
fine.  I have a work around for impossible, but it would make anybody 
creating a script have to handle tons of extraneous scripting that I 
should be handling behind the scenes.  This has come up before, but I 
don't think I've seen a good answer yet.

I need to "save" the state of a script ... BUT .. lucky me, my scripts 
run by events and all the params passed to the events are generated by 
me, and therefore the execution state + function params don't have to be 
saved (saving will always happen when no script has an active call).  
The SINGLE thing that has to be saved is the global object, which I can 
get/set easily.

The question is:  How can I convert it into something I can save, then 
re-convert back into an object?  Doesn't matter what it is; binary 
stream, text, large, small, don't care :)

[>] Brian

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