Re: Crash upon creating a new app project

[Fred Kiefer]

Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
> when I try to create a new "Application" project using ProjectCenter I 
> get an exception because the  returned title of the selected popup in 
> the save panel (accessory view) is nil (which is in fact not true). Now 
> this only happens when the popup is not selected beforehand, when 
> selecting another type first and then switching back to "Application" 
> again everything works as expected.

This problem is still there with the latest GNUstep version. What 
happens is that ProjectCenter asks the type popup button for its 
selected item and as the user has no selected anything and the 
application did also not select any entry, the popup button does return 
nil. Which than ProjectCenter cannot handle.

This is fairly simple and in itself looks correct. What makes the case 
more complicated is that a user can not tell if the popup already has 
some entry selected, it even appears as if the first entry would be 
selected, as this is shown as the title of the pop up.
The question here is what MacOSX or OpenStep do in this case?
According to the documentation I would regard selection and title as 
being to independent but conntect concepts for popups. See the comments 
on the method synchronizeTitleAndSelectedItem. If somebody could please 
test the real behaviour, I am willing to correct the popup code. But 
saying that GNUstep used to behave that way previously is not enough.

For ProjectCenter it would surely by the easiest and savest thing to do 
to select the first entry of the popup.

Cheers
Fred