Re: [Pyobjc-dev] PyShellView?

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 10:32 Europe/Amsterdam, Dinu Gherman  
wrote:

> I wrote:
>
>> Sounds good to me! You may want to sniff into the following maybe:
>>
>>    
>> http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Cocoa/ 
>> TextViewDelegate.htm
>>
>> Have fun,
>
> Big fun, indeed!! The following conversion to PyObjC using an outlet
> named 'committedLength' of type id in IB just crashes:

I cannot reproduce this here using the attached files and  
'English.lproj' from the example. the main.py is your crashing code  
with an added call to NSApplication main, and adapted for the name of  
the nib inside the example.

Could you post a complete, crashing, example.

<later>

Now that I look at your message again I see what's wrong: don't use  
outlets to store the committedLength. If you store anything in outlets  
you must make sure that that object stays alive by other means (e.g.  
store a reference in a regular instance variable or even call  
'retain'). That doesn't help for "plain python" value though, therefore  
you shouldn't store plain-python values in outlets. I'm going to add  
something about this issue to the documentation.

Basic guideline: Only use outlets if you're going to set them from  
Interface Builder, otherwise use "regular" instance variables.

Ronald