Re: [xmlvm-users] error when intializing variables

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Arno Puder wrote:

> 
> that is a known issue. The code that XMLVM generates is correct. The 
> problem is that certain classes (such as UIAppication*) are instantiated 
> by Cocoa and Cocoa doesn't know about the __init__*() constructors that 
> were generated by XMLVM. The initialization of 'test' in your example 
> will end up in the default constructor for class Main and since Cocoa 
> doesn't call it, it won't get initialized.
> 
> This will work perfectly fine for any other class (that is handled by 
> XMLVM). It is just this special case when Cocoa instantiates a Java 
> object. Back then I couldn't think of a solution for this. I'll revisit 
> this with the C backend. Here we might have more hooks to solve this 
> problem.
> 
> Arno

I actually found that problem in another, more complex structure that wasn't based on UIApplicationDelegate.

In any case, you are right, probably we should push our efforts more in favor of C backend (although I believe the ObjC backend should  not become obsolete)