On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The following works just fine in non-GC apps when called in an IBAction > method: > > NSSpeechSynthesizer* speechSynthesizer = > [[[NSSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init] autorelease]; > [speechSynthesizer startSpeakingString: > @"Hello. I'm Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag."]; > > In GC apps it crashes (non main thread): > > #0 0x907586e8 in objc_msgSend () > #1 0x952f6f23 in SpeechDoneProc () > #2 0x1f00d979 in MTBEDoneTask::Execute () > #3 0x1f018b01 in MTBEWorker::WorkLoop () > #4 0x1f018b5d in MTBEWorkerStartMPTask () > #5 0x91ec555b in PrivateMPEntryPoint () > #6 0x96fa76f5 in _pthread_start () > #7 0x96fa75b2 in thread_start () > > I'm guessing this is because the speechSynthesizer is collected before > it finishes speaking. Is this 'correct behaviour' or a bug? Needless > to say, the docs say nothing about special considerations for garbage > collection. My speechSynthesizer has no delegate, and I don't care when > it starts or stops speaking. Shouldn't that make it > NSSpeechSynthesizer's job to keep itself alive until it finishes > speaking? Afterall, _I'm_ finished with the speechSynthesizer.
If I were you, I'd file a Bug. -- Clark S. Cox III [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]