Hi Bertrand,

Josh Freeman wrote:


   You can set the textfield to only send its action when Enter's pressed (instead of every time editing finishes): In Interface Builder, select the textfield, then show the Inspector panel. Under the Inspector's Attributes tab, switch the textfield's 'Send Action' mode from "End editing" to "Enter only". (You can also do this programmatically by sending the textfield's cell a setSendsActionOnEndEditing:NO message.)

You have the same option in Gorm. Select the TextField, go to the inspector and in the attributes you have "Send action on" Enter only (what you probably want) or "End Editing" which is essentially always when your control looses focus.

These three lines in createNewTask: cause the issue:

        NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] init];
        string = [textField stringValue];
    ...
    [string release];// With this, I've got an "exec_BAD_ACCESS" error when calling three times in a row createNewTask with the same string in textField


You are trying to release the textField value, not the empty one you allocated. By assigning the the value you overwrite your own object.
Actually, this code will leak memory: the first allocated string.


   The first line sets 'string' to a retained, empty string object. The next line sets 'string' to the object returned by [textField stringValue], leaking the previous string object (its address was forgotten while it was still retained). 'String' then points to an object that wasn't retained by your code, so sending it a release message will cause it to deallocate while it's still referenced elsewhere (segfaulting if it's accessed after that).

   You can fix the issue by removing the first & third lines (empty-string allocation, release call), and moving the 'string' var definition to the second line:

        NSString *string = [textField stringValue];

Another way to explain what Josh is saying:
You need to alloc+init a string if you want to work on it, but in this case, you declatr *string just as a pointer to get the value of the textField, so you don't own the value and have no need to free it. Conversely, if you need to "work" on the value retturned by the textField for more than a run-loop, or pass it to a thread or to be blunt "for a long time", then you need to either retain or copy it. E.g. you get a value from a window, then close the window but want to continue working on that. If you retain or copy your object, then you need to release it.


Riccardo


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