Cloning infrastructure and breaking up spriteInfo to be able to hold multiple animations for one sprite

SpriteLibrary/SpriteDatabase.cs

@@ -238,6 +238,37 @@ namespace SpriteLibrary
                     reader.Close();
             }
         }
+
+        public static string WriteToXMLString<T>(T toSerialize)
+        {
+            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(toSerialize.GetType());
+
+            using (StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter())
+            {
+                xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, toSerialize);
+                return textWriter.ToString();
+            }
+        }
+        public static T ReadFromXmlString<T>(string toDeserialize) where T : new()
+        {
+            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
+            using (StringReader textReader = new StringReader(toDeserialize))
+                return (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(textReader);
+        }
+
+        public static T CloneByXMLSerializing<T>(T ObjectToClone)
+        {
+            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
+            string dest;
+            using (StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter())
+            {
+                xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, ObjectToClone);
+                dest = textWriter.ToString();
+            }
+
+            using (StringReader textReader = new StringReader(dest))
+                return (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(textReader);
+        }
         #endregion
     }
 

SpriteLibrary/SpriteInfo.cs

@@ -7,15 +7,39 @@ using System.Drawing;
 
 namespace SpriteLibrary
 {
-    internal class SpriteInfo
+    internal class AnimationInfo
     {
-        public string SpriteName = "";
         public Point StartPoint = new Point(-1, -1);
         public string ImageName = "";
         public int Width = -1;
         public int Height = -1;
         public int AnimSpeed = 200;
-        public int NumAnimations = 1;
+        public int NumFrames = 1;
         public int ViewPercent = 100;  //The percent size of the sprite.  100 is full.  50 is half-size
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// A generic cloning method that works when everything is public
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public AnimationInfo Clone()
+        {
+            return SpriteDatabase.CloneByXMLSerializing<AnimationInfo>(this);
+        }
+    }
+
+    internal class SpriteInfo
+    {
+        public string SpriteName = "";
+        public int ViewPercent = 100;  //The percent size of the sprite.  100 is full.  50 is half-size
+        public List<AnimationInfo> Animations = new List<AnimationInfo>();
+    
+        /// <summary>
+        /// A generic cloning method that works when everything is public
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public SpriteInfo Clone()
+        {
+            return SpriteDatabase.CloneByXMLSerializing<SpriteInfo>(this);
+        }
     }
 }