Wish Create an Alias Attribute for Starter Module

[Mahares]

Since most variables are preferably declared in the Starter Service module, how about create an alias attribute for the ‘Starter’ module to tidy up the code. For instance: in the starter we will have:

#Alias: S  'or whatever user wants

And in the activity module instead of:

If Starter.SQL1.IsInitialized = False Then
    Starter.SQL1.Initialize(Starter.SQLDBPath, Starter.SQLDBName, True)
End If

We will have this:

If S.SQL1.IsInitialized = False Then
    S.SQL1.Initialize(S.SQLDBPath, S.SQLDBName, True)
End If

 

[Dave O]

I agree that having to use "Starter" as a prefix is cumbersome.

However, as discussed in this Starter service thread, we can work around this if we declare our Process_Globals variables in another module with a intentionally short name. (I use a "common" code module that I renamed to "c".)

Once it's declared there, I can code the following in Starter > Service_Create:

c.SQL1.Initialize(c.SQLDBPath, c.SQLDBName, True)

The prefixing problem itself is nicely solved in other languages by the WITH or USES keywords, as wished for in this post.

 

[Erel]

I know that this is just an example. However you should initialize SQL1 in Service_Create of the starter service.

 

[Dave O]

I know that this is just an example. However you should initialize SQL1 in Service_Create of the starter service.

Thanks Erel, I've updated my example above to make this a bit more clear.