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Issue 3.2

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Implementing the Singleton Pattern

Issue: 3.2 (November/December 2004)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles Yeomans is a software developer in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Article Length (in bytes): 5,837
Starting Page Number: 33
Article Number: 3215
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It is sometimes the case that not only do you want to implement a single instance of a class, but that you also need to prevent more than one instance from being created. This is the Singleton pattern.

The usual way to implement a singleton in REALbasic is with a module. Modules are created at startup, and you cannot create multiple instances of them. A minor disadvantage is that modules don't support constructors and destructors, but that's easy enough to work around with methods to be called in App.Open and App.Close. However, if you need to create a singleton object that is a subclass of another class, then you can't use a module.

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