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

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> On Apr 01, 2007, at 04:41, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Maybe this should be handled like in xcode? That app pops up a
> dialog, explaining the exception, and giving the option to either
> quit or continue.

Hm.. that's an interesting idea.  My experience in xcode is usually  
that once I get one of those I'm going to keep on getting it until I  
quit and relaunch... I wonder if that's the nature of the beast or  
something odd with their implementation of the exception handling or  
recovery.  Also, would anyone ever click "quit"?  If it's harmless  
(you scrolled down and logitech's control center sent an invalid  
message to an NSEvent) the notification might be significantly more  
annoying than not knowing unless you check Console.  If it's harmful,  
on the other hand, knowing so we get a better bug report could be a  
good thing...

-Evan
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