Re: [Skim-app-users] Log in Console.app about SKMainWindowController being deallocated while key value observers are still registered with it.

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

On Jul 6, 2010, at 22:28, Jérôme Baumgarten wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying Skim to see if it fits my needs and I noticed the following
> message in the console every time I close a PDF :
> 
> 7/6/10 10:12:32 PM Skim[4514] An instance 0xeac6170 of class
> SKMainWindowController is being deallocated while key value observers
> are still registered with it. Observation info is being leaked, and
> may even become mistakenly attached to some other object. Set a
> breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop here in the debugger.
> Here's the current observation info:
> <NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0xe9af8f0> (
> <NSKeyValueObservance 0xe994400: Observer: 0xe994700, Key path:
> pageLabel, Options: <New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0xe9def40,
> Property: 0xe994550>
> )
> 
> Can I safely ignore these messages ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jerome

This shouldn't happen, and could lead to a crash later, though not necessarily.

I don't see it myself. Is this with 10.5? That OS version has a binding bug (see bug # 3004349), workaround for that is already in the source. 

Christiaan