Re: Crashes in GUI when applying a theme (Thematic)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Richard!

> > My investigation confirms (I used NSZombieEnabled=YES and set a 
> > breakpoint 
> > at the log of the priblem, and lookd at the stack) that we have a 
> > deallocated object.
> > Specifically the exception is  in [[_attachedMenu _owningPopUp] 
> > pullsDown] 
> > when the -pullsDown message is sent to the _owningPopUp as a result 
> > of  an 
> > NSMenuView receiving a GSThemeDidActivateNotification.
> > Presumably the reason is that the NSMenuView has been detached from 
> > somthing in which the NSPopUpButtonCell has been 
> > deleted/deallocated, but 
> > as the view has not been deallocated it still receives the 
> > notification and 
> > tried to redraw.
>
> > I think adding [_menu _setOwnedByPopUp: nil] and DESTROY(_menu) near 
> > the 
> > end of NSPopUpButtonCell's -dealloc may be the correct fix, since 
> > the popup 
> > owns/retains the menu and appears to be leaking it.
>
>
> I did some research myself and you seem to be very close to a 
> solution. The 
> best way to fix it would be to call [self setMenu: nil] at that 
> place, but, 
> as a very old changelog entry tells, I tried that before and it gave 
> some 
> issues in GNUMail. For now I will add your suggested changes and get 
> Riccardo 
> to test all his favourite applications to see whether this causes any 
> damage.


After some discussion ad tests with Fred, I pushed on his behalf his 
proposed solution. It needs to be tested the following days. I did 
have a run on most applications without any apparent harm (including 
GNUMail).

We need to settle this some days! No immediate harm has been found to 
GNUMail or Thematic, although with both I can reproduce some crashes, 
but I think they are unrelated to this bug.

E.g. in Thematic open GAP's "WinClassic" theme which has horizontal 
(possibly open before another theme, then open that one) Thematic will 
just close, exiting, mystierously, without a crash...

And I have strange issues with passwords in GNUmail, but all 
unrelated, it is just I am testing things... both with gcc runtime and 
libobjc2 runtime.

Thumbs up! Riccardo