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.
![]() | If you use this feature, the class constructor (the special method _new) will be called with no parameters. |
This feature is already used internally by the Form and the Settings classes.
Are you superstitious ? Here are the first 13 lines of the Settings class code:
' 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 ...