Re: [Vala] New params for [ModuleInit]

[JM <interflug1 gmx net>]

Hello Abderrahim
Thanks for reply! 
I somehow got the error message in a wrong way, because I thought the "[ModuleInit]" annotation itself needed 
some extra info.
Now it's working fine again. 
Sorry for the hassle.
Regards
Jörn



> Hi,
>
> 2010/6/10, JM <interflug1 gmx net>:
> > Hello everybody
> >  This valac commit shows that there has been some change with
> >  [ModuleInit]:
> >  http://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/commit/?id=5fd7b8cebb983fccdebcd9329671d94c1e5cf826
> >
> >  The example on http://live.gnome.org/Vala/TypeModules is showing an
> >  example exactly as I am using it in my application:
> >
> >  [ModuleInit]
> >  public Type register_plugin (TypeModule module) {
> >     // types are registered automatically
> >     return typeof (MyPlugin);
> >  }
> >
> >  Here, valac reports "error: [ModuleInit] requires a parameter of type `GLib.TypeModule'
> >  public Type init_module() {"
>
> I'm not sure I understand your problem, in the example register_plugin
> takes a TypeModule as parameter but from what I see in the error
> message, your init_module doesn't take any parameter, and that's what
> valac is saying.
>
> >  Can someone please tell me what the expected usage of
> >  [ModuleInit] would be?
>
> a [ModuleInit] function is called by the application when a plugin is
> loaded. It should have at least a TypeModule argument so that the
> plugin types can be registered dinamically. (It generally returns the
> type of the main plugin class for the application to create an
> instance, but that's not mandatory : the application can find it out
> from e.g. the plugin description file if there is one).
>
> HTH,
> Abderrahim