1) Is there a quick and dirty way of saving an object's properties (it's state) so that they can be restored later? At this time I wish to save the properties of the _SCREEN object to restore them later, but this is obviously a frequent situation and I am sure there is a one line solution.

2) Along the same vein, is there generic way (sounds better than quick and dirty) of making a complete copy of an object? The difference with question one is that this time any objects contained in the source object are copied along with the properties.

I understand oNew = oOld does not do the trick because it simply saves a pointer to the same object.

There are two cases: In one the target object does not yet exist and in the other it already exists (assume it's of same class).

Thank you very much.

Alex