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Get a string representation of an object

{ With the ObjectBinaryToText Function you get a string representation of an object stored in a file or a stream. Mit ObjectBinaryToText kann die Darstellung eines in einer Datei oder einem Stream gespeicherten Objekts in eine verständliche Textversion konvertiert werden. } function ComponentToString(Component: TComponent): string; var BinStream: TMemoryStream; StrStream: TStringStream; begin BinStream := TMemoryStream.Create; try StrStream := TStringStream.Create(Result); try BinStream.WriteComponent(Component); BinStream.Seek(0, soFromBeginning); ObjectBinaryToText(BinStream, StrStream); StrStream.Seek(0, soFromBeginning); Result := StrStream.DataString; finally StrStream.Free; end; finally BinStream.Free end; end; procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject); begin ShowMessage(ComponentToString(Button1)); end;