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 <interfl...@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 _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
