[Adium-devl] Ending the era of NSException crashes?

[Evan Schoenberg]

Since we've had the crash reporter, we've had unhandled NSExceptions  
be treated as crashes.  This was great when Adium was young and there  
were a bunch of exceptions we were causing one way or another  
inadvertantly.  Nowadays, though, even with the exception controller  
riddled with "safe" exceptions -- thrown either by appkit or by known  
other applications in the course of their normal behavior -- most of  
the exceptions I see in the crash reporter seem to be not our fault  
and probably harmless.

The example I saw just now was that the Logical Control Center likes  
to send @selector(deviceDeltaX) to ScrollWheel events sometimes...  
which does the following:
OS Version:	Version 10.4.9 (Build 8P135)
Language:	en
Exception:	NSInternalInconsistencyException
Reason:	Invalid message sent to event "NSEvent: type=ScrollWheel loc= 
(198,242) time=20708.8 flags=0x100 win=0 winNum=402 ctxt=0xdc07  
deltaX=0.000000 deltaY=-3.000000 deltaZ=0.000000"
Stack trace:
      1	
      2	-[NSAssertionHandler  
handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] (in  
Foundation)
      3	
      4	-[NSEvent deviceDeltaX] (in AppKit)
      5	
      6	-[NSScrollView scrollWheel:] (in AppKit)
      7	
      8	_forwardMethod (in AppKit)
      9	
     10	-[NSView scrollWheel:] (in AppKit)
     11	
fun!

So should Adium crash in that situation?  Every other OS X would log  
to console... and possibly behave erratically if this happened in the  
midst of some other invocation.  We send a crash report and call it a  
day.

I'm thinking that moving back to the "standard" behavior might give  
us less crash reports to sift through and give users a better chance  
of random software interactions not ruining their Adium day. What do  
you think?

Can anyone tell I have a huge test coming up? :D

-Evan
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