Re: Services Bug in 10.3.6/7?

FROM : Douglas Davidson
DATE : Sun Dec 19 19:53:00 2004

On Dec 18, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Daniel DeCovnick wrote:


> I have a couple of applications I've written that provide services.
> However, I've recently found that one of them no longer works. It
> worked when I wrote it and it worked on systems up through 10.3.5, but
> not on 10.3.6 or 10.3.7. Strangely, the other app I've written works
> just fine. They both register services at -awakeFromNib (I'm not sure
> if I should do it sooner, but it seems to work fine), and the service
> methods are almost identical (check the pasteboard to make sure it
> contains the right type, get the string on the pasteboard, check that
> the string exists, put the string into a text field and trigger an
> IBAction). The only significant difference is that the failing app
> provides one service, and the other app provides two. What happens
> when I trigger the failing service is that the application will
> appear, then disappear in the Dock, and the triggering application
> will hang for 60 seconds or so. If I open the service providing
> application manually during this time, the service finishes running.
> Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.


It sounds very much as though the service-providing application is
crashing or otherwise exiting.  Try running it in gdb and seeing what
happens.

Douglas Davidson