Re: 1.4.1 On OSX

On 21/12/05 1:12 pm, "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> wrote:

> Dave Page wrote:
>> 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?
>
> 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.

Annoyingly that's one of the first fixes I tried and it didn't work. Seems
to now though - I must have forgotten to make clean or something.

Thanks.

Regards, Dave