Re: error while opening AddressManager

[Fred Kiefer]

Thank you for checking this. The we call it an application code bug.
It is true, GNUstep used to behave different, but now we follow the 
Apple, and most likely the OpenStep, implementation a bit closer.

Adding a check for nil in AddressView shouldn't be to hard.

On 27.01.2012 18:55, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
> > The corresponding real back trace is easy to get. Set a break point
> > on [NSException raise] and run AddressManager, try to add a new
> > person and you will get:
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > This could be either fixed in AddressView, by not setting the
> > string of a NSTextView to nil. Or we need to protect all calls to
> > the NSTextView in gui to ignore nil.
> >
> > Not sure what Apple does here. Anybody out there with some time to
> > test this?
>
> Apple reports an exception as well upon calling -setString: with a
> nil argument:
>
> 2012-01-27 18:53:45.599 test[44382:903] An uncaught exception was
> raised 2012-01-27 18:53:45.635 test[44382:903] *** -[NSTextView
> replaceCharactersInRange:withString:]: nil NSString given.
>
> Wolfgang