[Tcl-bugs] [ tktoolkit-Bugs-2907388 ] Entering circumflex '^' into entry crashes TkAqua 8.6b1.1

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Bugs item #2907388, was opened at 2009-12-02 02:25
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Category: 07. [entry]
Group: development: 8.6b1.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Torsten Berg (treincke)
Assigned to: Daniel A. Steffen (das)
Summary: Entering circumflex '^' into entry crashes TkAqua 8.6b1.1

Initial Comment:
The following script:

% entry .e
% pack .e

will crash TkAqua8.6b1.1 when entering a circumflex (the ^ character) into the entry. This is true for both the i386 and the x86_64 builds. The error message is:

2009-12-02 11:17:30.936 wish-aqua8.6[6459:903] An uncaught exception was raised
2009-12-02 11:17:30.939 wish-aqua8.6[6459:903] *** -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds
2009-12-02 11:17:31.023 wish-aqua8.6[6459:903] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
        0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff85879444 __exceptionPreprocess + 180
        1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8496d0f3 objc_exception_throw + 45
        2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff85879267 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 103
        3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff858791f4 +[NSException raise:format:] + 148
        4   Foundation                          0x00007fff801803d5 -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:] + 97
        5   Tk                                  0x00000001000c52e0 Tk_SetCaretPos + 674
        6   Tk                                  0x00000001000cb9db Tk_MacOSXSetupTkNotifier + 701
        7   Tcl                                 0x00000001001f4486 Tcl_DoOneEvent + 297
        8   Tk                                  0x000000010001d8e0 Tk_MainLoop + 24
        9   Tk                                  0x000000010002b36a Tk_MainEx + 1491
        10  wish-aqua8.6                        0x000000010000548b 0x0 + 4294988939
        11  wish-aqua8.6                        0x00000001000053d0 0x0 + 4294988752
        12  ???                                 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
Abort trap


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>Comment By: Daniel A. Steffen (das)
Date: 2010-02-09 15:20

Message:
also see 2948152

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