Re: Initialization methods in library..

[Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>]

Hi Ajay,

What you are running into is an "order of construction" problem.

The general strategy to fix the problem is to make an accessor routine that returns the static variable.

Example:
class g_Master
{
public:
    static CSmSimpleObj& getCSmSimpleObj();
}

CSmSimpleObj& g_Master::getCSmSimpleObj {
    static CSmSimpleObj CacheCount;
    static bool doInit = true;
    if(doInit) {
        CacheCount->Setvalue(1);
        doInit = false;
    }
    return CacheCount;
}

If you REALLY want to have the _initfunc in the other library do the Setvalue(1), you'll need something like this:

CSmSimpleObj& g_Master::getCSmSimpleObj {
    static CSmSimpleObj CacheCount;
    static bool doInit = true;
    if(doInit) {
        _initfunc();
        doInit = false;
    }
    return CacheCount;
}

HTH,
--Eljay