Re: [Vala] Type.from_name is returning null pointer

["Fabian Deutsch" <fabian deutsch gmx de>]

hello.

> however, if i run the following sample code ...
>
> public class MyObject:Object{}
>
> void main () { 
>  Type typeFromName = Type.from_name("MyObject"); 
>  print("%s\n", typeFromName.to_string()); 
>  print("%s\n", typeFromName.name()); 
> }
>
> ... i get the following output:
>
> 0
> (null)
>
> ... which i obviously cannot use to create any object. 
>
> i discovered that the code above works, but only if an object of
> MyObject was previously created or if i previously used typeof(MyObject)
> and assigned that type-object to some variable. 

This is, because types are registered only on the first use and not before. 
If you compile that code and look at the generated c-code, you see that the type is registered only when 
creating an instance.

- fabian