CREATE STATIC
CREATE STATIC
These keywords, when placed alone at the beginning of a
class file,
tells the interpreter that when applying non-static symbols to
the name of the class, an automatic hidden instance of it will
be created on the fly.
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This feature allows you to implement the object-oriented programming singleton pattern.
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If you use this feature, the class constructor (the special method
_new) will be called with no parameters.
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This feature is already used internally by the
Form and the
Settings classes.
Here are the first 13 lines (are you superstitious?) of the
Settings class code:
Example
' Gambas class file
EXPORT
CREATE STATIC
PRIVATE $sPath AS String
PRIVATE $sTitle AS String
PRIVATE $cSlot AS NEW Collection
PRIVATE $bModify AS Boolean
PUBLIC SUB _new(OPTIONAL Path AS String, OPTIONAL Title AS String)
DIM hFile AS File
DIM sLine AS String
...
> lang > createstatic 
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