Wish Initialize routine returns the object

[Daestrum]

Would it be possible (pretty please) to consider having the Initialize return the object in place of void.

Then all manor of wondrous things are possible eg

dim iv as ImageView
dim im as Image
im.Initialize("path","file.png")
iv.Initialize("someFunction")
iv.SetImage(im)

could become

dim iv as ImageView
dim im as Image
iv.Initialize("someFunction")
iv.SetImage(im.Initialize("path","file.png"))

Thank you.

 

[Erel]

I like this idea as well. However this is not a single change. The Initialize methods are not special. This means that it will require updating the APIs of all objects (which is possible).

 

[Daestrum]

Sorry if it's a lot of work, it's not really important, but gets closer to to the 'pure' Java way of using 'new' to create objects as you need them.

If I wanted really to ask for too much, I would ask for ImageView.iv.SetImage(Image.im.Initialize("somepath","somepic.jpg")) and get shot of the dim statements altogether