Re: Problems with GNUMail or GSDecorationView?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Tim,

good thing that we have an "official" response, after our hacking 
together on this. Please send a note to Ludovic. It would be very nice 
if he could release a new tarball (even if beta) with this change so 
people can continue to use GNUMail and distributions canupgrade.

Riccardo

Tim Kack wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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