Re: [Bibdesk-develop] BibDesk Error

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On 19 Jan 2007, at 6:42 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Friday, January 19, 2007, at 09:34AM, "Christiaan Hofman"  
> <cmh...@gm...> wrote:
>> On 1/19/07, Adam R. Maxwell <ama...@ma...> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> And now the -objectAtIndex: range exception.
>
> Yeah.  I've looked at all the places we use objectAtIndex: and  
> don't see anything obvious.  I was hoping it was that pasteboard  
> crasher, but it looks like a consistent range problem instead of a  
> failure to respond.
>

I also checked those, without any luck. The problem is that it is  
very common operation. It can easily be called indirectly, possibly  
somewhere in a framework. If only we could reduce it to some task.

>>
>> BTW, for the application launch exception, could we save that file as
>>> a BDAlias instead of a URL?  That should be more reliable.
>>>
>>> -- adam
>>
>>
>> We could, but what about backward compatibility?
>
> Something like
>
> id obj;
> if((obj = [defaults objectForKey:NewFileKeyWithAlias]))
>   fileURL = [[BDAlias aliasWithData:obj] fileURL];
> else if((obj = [defaults objectForKey:OldFileStringKey])){
>   fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:obj]; //or whatever it is
>   BDAlias *alias = [BDAlias aliasWithFileURL:fileURL];
>   [defaults setObject:alias forKey:NewFileKeyWithAlias];
>   }
>
> Kind of a pain, but not too many lines of code, if we introduce a  
> new key.


That's a possiblity. We could also fix it in BibAppController.

Christiaan