Dave Page wrote:
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> On 21/12/05 1:12 pm, "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> wrote:
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>>Dave Page wrote:
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>>>Hi Andreas,
>>>
>>>I finally tracked down the bug in 1.4.1 on Mac which causes a crash whenever
>>>pretty much any property dialogue is opened. Basically, in
>>>ctlComboBox::GetSelection() we call GetCurrentSelection(). In wxMac however,
>>>this simply calls GetSelection() which is a virtual and results in our
>>>GetSelection() actually getting called, in turn causing a loop and eventual
>>>stack overflow.
>>>
>>>So, the attached patch seems to fix the problem and return the auto-complete
>>>code to the same slightly-broken-but-usable state that it was in 1.4.0 (i.e,
>>>you can only type the first character of a data type for example, and the
>>>first match will be selected).
>>>
>>>Can you take a look and confirm my analysis (or call me an idiot, whatever
>>>is correct!) before I apply this to both branches and packare 1.4.1.plus
>>>please?
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>>In general I agree. I committed a fix in ctlComboBoxFix doing
>>essentially the same, but the version dependent GetCurrentSelection code
>>isn't cluttered around the sources this way.
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> Annoyingly that's one of the first fixes I tried and it didn't work.
Well the wxComboBox code is a shy guy (remember how reluctant it's
mentioned in 2.6.2 release notes). Maybe you pressed a keyboard button
too harsh, and it was frightened :-)
Regards,
Andreas