Re: NSNotification and subclasses

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 12:42 AM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently, NSNotificationCenter changed to always create its own
> NSNotification (GSNotification in practice) object. This broke using
> custom sub-classes of NSNotificaion to send extra information outside
> the userInfo dictionary, and caused all apps to crash. The text about
> sub-classes in:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/
> Classes/NSNotification.html
>
> suggests that you're supposed to be able to do this.

Thanks ... bug crept in when changing our implementation to be a class 
cluster
(like MacOS-X) and to handle retain/release/autorelease sequencing like 
the
MacOS-X implementation (required for some uses of notification posting 
within
dealloc methods of objects).

Should be fixed now in CVS.