Changing serialized object's fields

[Wnt2bsleepin]

Hello

I have managed to code myself into a little bit of a problem. I developed a mod for a game, a simple mod, that saves data in the form of a serialized object. It has two fields, both ints. I however would like to convert them into doubles. The problem is that the data is saved to disk and I don't want existing user's data to be destroyed. Is there some way I can have it converted into doubles that won't break backwards compatibility?

Here is the page in question.

Thank you for any help.

[kaydell2]

Maybe that's a good reason not to use serialization. Maybe XML would be better. I know that you've already used serialization, but I wouldn't mind having a discussion about using XML instead and staying away from serialization.

[Wnt2bsleepin]

Is it too late to convert this all over to XML? I was hoping I could do something simple like add another field that was a double type, and have a method convert it.