[Gambas-user] How to execute a standard routine every time a function in a component is called

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Hi Gurus! 

Sorry for this noop-question:
In the module area of my component I read a settings file with some connection 
parameters.
As long as I run the component as a normal Gambas-programm this works 
perfectly. But when I turn it into a component and call one of it's exported 
functions, the function is called directly, without executing the code in the 
module area and my connection parameters are never read. 
Surely there is a another way than putting the reading of the settings file 
into every single function...but which way?

TIA and grretz
Stevie