Game Development Reference
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Fig. 22.1
The property panel
of the file 'levels.txt'
Fig. 22.2
Classes for reading and writing files
22.5.2 Streams Versus Text Readers and Writers
The main difference between the classes in the diagram is that some of them are
Stream
subclasses, whereas others are subclasses of a
reader
or
writer
class.
•
In a
Stream
the separate bytes of a file are read or written. A
reader
or
writer
class
deals with larger units: characters and strings in a
Tex t W r i t e r
, integers, doubles and
other basic types in a
BinaryWriter
and coherent parts of an XML document in the
XMLWriter
.
