Hello all, I would like to serialize some information about an image in the same file as it but I can't because that would mean serializing the window attribute as well. Its hard to explain... but my game loads files and serializes them rather than loading a .png. I was wondering If I could create a Gosu::Image object without specifying a window variable so that the serialized Gosu::Image could be used in any window, understand? Sorry if I am not clarifying the concept clearly enough, thanks in advance, ell.

"Unserialization" is impossible. You can only make script which will load this image for all windows at once.

Oh, okay then. Well, is there a bitmap class for ruby gosu? I know there is one for c++.

The bitmap class wouldn't help I think. Even in C++ Gosu, there is no way to get the content of an image back because there is no way to change the content anyway after loading from a file.

Since there is only one Window instance anyway, I guess you could just use Ruby's ObjectSpace to look for it until Gosu gets rid of the "window" parameter.

Hey again guys, sorry for the late reply, went to Conway on a school trip :) Thanks, that cleared things up a bit! I think I'l just go with it loading .png files on there own, or if needs be it can load any extra information from a file with the same name but a different extension so I can have an image file and an image info file. Thanks again, you'v been great, ell.