This was not really useful and against the Eolian guidelines.
While I promised I won't break things until the 27th, I was ill
(still am), so I'm giving myself a 1 day pass. :P
From now on, constructors should return a value, usually the object
being worked on, or NULL (if the constructor failed). This can also
be used for implementing singletons, by just always returning the same
object from the constructor.
This is one of the final steps towards stabilizing Eo.
@feature
Instead of "@in type name;" we now use "@in name: type;". This change
is done because of consistency with the rest of Eolian; pretty much
every other part of Eolian syntax uses the latter form.
This is a big breaking change in the .eo format, so please update your
.eo files accordingly and compile Elementary together with the EFL.
@feature
Remove it from the constructors section.
This was wrong. This place is for functions that are allowed to be
passed to eo_add() and should be used by bindings to create
constructors.
This is wrong for both cases, as this should always be called, not
optional.
Also remove the redundant legacy: null.
For some reason, they were normal functions instead of eo functions,
which makes them harder to bind, less safe, and just wrong.
This commit fixes that.
This enables checking if an object is being created, or has already been
finalized. This is useful in functions that you want to allow
only during the creation phase (i.e inside the eo_add()).
This function lets you hook at the end of eo_add and override it for a
class. This is essentially the first step towards killing custom
constructors. Instead of having a custom constructor, you should just
do:
eo_add(CLASS, parent, a_set(3), b_set("eou"));
eo_constructor is called at the beginning for pre-init things.
eo_finalize is called at the end, for actually finalizing and doing
things. This cleans up the API and possibly saves a lot of things that
would have been stupid and slow in the past, like loading an elm widget
with an existing theme, and then changing the theme.
** This breaks Eo ABI, please recompile elementary and everything else that
creates eo objects.
@feature