Re: [Vala] Vala-list Digest, Vol 26, Issue 8



On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM, golnaz nilieh <g382nilieh gmail com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz> wrote:


On Tue, January 5, 2010 13:12, Frederik wrote:
Non-value-type static class variables are only initialized after the
class was instantiated at least once. This behaviour is a little bit
counter-intuitive, and I hope it will change in the future.

I have to disappoint you -- that behaviour can't change.

The problem is, that the while the mechanism for static constructors
exists for C++, there does not seem to be a portable way to use it from
C (in gcc you can use the __attribute__((constructor)), but that's an
extension).

You have several options:

- create a throw-away instance:

? static int main (string[] args) {
? ? ? new Global ();
? ? ? stdout.printf ("all data is in: " + Global.dataDir);
? ? ? return 0;
? }

Actually, there is no need to do that -- calling typeof(Global); is
enough.

- call a static initialization method:

? static int main (string[] args) {
? ? ? Global.init ();
? ? ? stdout.printf ("all data is in: " + Global.dataDir);
? ? ? return 0;
? }

This should not work. *static* methods do not cause a class to be
initialized (*class* methods do, though).

- make 'dataDir' const, if it is not intended to change

- make the variable a class one instead of static one.

public class Global {
? ?class string dataDir = "whatever";
}


To me to correct way is to use:
   public static const string dataDir = "/usr/local/share/";
instead of:
   public static string dataDir = "/usr/local/share/";

Also please follow the Vala coding conventions (data_dir instead of
dataDir)

--
Ali


Thanks to all. I defined an empty constructor for Global, and called it in
main function. also I changed dataDir to a constant variable.

If you define dataDir as constant you don't need the constructor and
you don't need to call it.

But a new question: Is there a way to pass the installation path to dataDir?
I use this macro in configure.ac:

AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr/local)

can i use it as a variable in a vala source file?


I already posted a message about that in this mailing list, but it
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