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Bug 362850 - (Py)Extensions should have initialize() and finalize() methods
(Py)Extensions should have initialize() and finalize() methods
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Bindings:Python
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-17 13:16 UTC by Nigel Tao
Modified: 2011-02-01 16:19 UTC
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Description Nigel Tao 2006-10-17 13:16:41 UTC 
Extensions currently can implement attach/detach tab/window callbacks, but if I want to do a one-off initialization for the extension (and not do the initialization on each window) then I am currently doing:

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window_count = 0

def attach_window(window):
 global window_count
 if window_count == 0:
   do_init()
 window_count += 1

def detach_window(window):
 global window_count
 window_count -= 1
 if window_count == 0:
   do_cleanup()
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Which works AFAICT, but seems hackish.  It might be cleaner if there were explicit extension_initialize() and extension_finalize() callbacks.

As raised on the mailing list at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2006-October/msg00013.html
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2006-10-17 19:31:45 UTC 
For C extensions, this is provided by them being GObjects (implementing EphyExtension), so you can do your stuff in the init/finalize methods.

Kikidonk was going to make python extensions also be objects, but hasn't had the time to do so.