gdnative/doc_classes/GDNativeLibrary.xml

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<class name="GDNativeLibrary" inherits="Resource" version="3.6" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../../doc/class.xsd">
	<brief_description>
		An external library containing functions or script classes to use in Pandemonium.
	</brief_description>
	<description>
		A GDNative library can implement [NativeScript]s, global functions to call with the [GDNative] class, or low-level engine extensions through interfaces such as [ARVRInterfaceGDNative]. The library must be compiled for each platform and architecture that the project will run on.
	</description>
	<tutorials>
		<link>$DOCS_URL/tutorials/scripting/gdnative/gdnative_c_example.html</link>
		<link>$DOCS_URL/tutorials/scripting/gdnative/gdnative_cpp_example.html</link>
	</tutorials>
	<methods>
		<method name="get_current_dependencies" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="PoolStringArray" />
			<description>
				Returns paths to all dependency libraries for the current platform and architecture.
			</description>
		</method>
		<method name="get_current_library_path" qualifiers="const">
			<return type="String" />
			<description>
				Returns the path to the dynamic library file for the current platform and architecture.
			</description>
		</method>
	</methods>
	<members>
		<member name="config_file" type="ConfigFile" setter="set_config_file" getter="get_config_file">
			This resource in INI-style [ConfigFile] format, as in [code].gdnlib[/code] files.
		</member>
		<member name="load_once" type="bool" setter="set_load_once" getter="should_load_once" default="true">
			If [code]true[/code], Pandemonium loads only one copy of the library and each script that references the library will share static data like static or global variables.
			If [code]false[/code], Pandemonium loads a separate copy of the library into memory for each script that references it.
		</member>
		<member name="reloadable" type="bool" setter="set_reloadable" getter="is_reloadable" default="true">
			If [code]true[/code], the editor will temporarily unload the library whenever the user switches away from the editor window, allowing the user to recompile the library without restarting Pandemonium.
			[b]Note:[/b] If the library defines tool scripts that run inside the editor, [code]reloadable[/code] must be [code]false[/code]. Otherwise, the editor will attempt to unload the tool scripts while they're in use and crash.
		</member>
		<member name="singleton" type="bool" setter="set_singleton" getter="is_singleton" default="false">
			If [code]true[/code], Pandemonium loads the library at startup rather than the first time a script uses the library, calling [code]{prefix}gdnative_singleton[/code] after initializing the library (where [code]{prefix}[/code] is the value of [member symbol_prefix]). The library remains loaded as long as Pandemonium is running.
			[b]Note:[/b] A singleton library cannot be [member reloadable].
		</member>
		<member name="symbol_prefix" type="String" setter="set_symbol_prefix" getter="get_symbol_prefix" default="&quot;pandemonium_&quot;">
			The prefix this library's entry point functions begin with. For example, a GDNativeLibrary would declare its [code]gdnative_init[/code] function as [code]pandemonium_gdnative_init[/code] by default.
			On platforms that require statically linking libraries (currently only iOS), each library must have a different [code]symbol_prefix[/code].
		</member>
	</members>
	<constants>
	</constants>
</class>