Re: Problems with GNUMail or GSDecorationView?

[Tim Kack]

Thanks, a [[self window] setDelegate: nil] in -dealloc of the 
controller solved it.

Best regards,
Tim

On 2009-08-19 10:56:18 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19 Aug 2009, at 09:38, Tim Kack wrote:
>
> > Note, at this point _delegate will be 0xdeadface because the 
> > EditWindowController has been deallocated and therefore  
> > respondsToSelector 
> > will crash.
> >
> > Now, my question is - is this a GNUMail bug (i.e. the NSToolbar  
> > should 
> > have been deallocated earlier) or is it a problem with the 
> > GSWindowDecorationView removeToolbarView? Perhaps there should be a  
> > check 
> > if the delegate still is valid before calling setFrame?
>
> I'm not really familiar with the code concerned, but from your  
> description 
> it sounds like the bug is in EditWindowController
>
> If EditWindowController has set itsself as the delegate for a window, 
>  it 
> should also have removed itsself as the delegate at the start of  its 
> -dealloc method.
> It's a firm rule that an object must remove itsself as a delegate of  
> any 
> other object before it deallocates itsself.