Another thought -- is it possible you have a subclass of DBWord that implements
+initialize and needs to call super?
--Andy
On Jul 24, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Ken Tozier wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wrote a class that stores data common to all instances in an, init file,
> but when I create new instances, + (void) initialize isn't getting called. I
> thought that initialize was always called before anything else, so am a but
> confused why it isn't working. I don't want to create a global "initialized"
> flag and have to check that inside every method. Here's a stripped down
> version of the initialize method. Anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Is there
> any other way to insure that initialize is called before any other method in
> the class?
>
> static NSMutableString *gSharedData
> = nil;
>
> @implementation DBWord
>
> + (void) initialize
> {
> @synchronized(self)
> {
> if (gSharedData == nil)
> {
> NSLog(@"made it to here");
>
> NSError *error = nil;
> gSharedData = [[NSMutableString alloc]
> initWithContentsOfFile: @"/path/to/shared/file.txt" encoding:
> NSUTF16StringEncoding error: &error];
> }
> }
> }
>
> ...
>
> @end
>
>
>
>
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