Re: Objective-C++ Exceptions (was: PICT control problems)

FROM : Bill Bumgarner
DATE : Sun Jun 25 20:49:14 2006

On Jun 24, 2006, at 7:08 PM, David Dunham wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2006, at 10:58, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

>> If your application encounters an NSException, then the state of 
>> the AppKit, Foundation, and CoreData are undefined.  NSExceptions 
>> are thrown for non-recoverable runtime errors.

>
> So far I've had fairly good luck catching NSException so I can 
> report errors when a document can't be read (e.g. the mythic 
> NSInvalidArchiveOperationException). Seems like a recoverable error 
> to me...
>
> But I'm not using C++ in this app, and I'm catching fairly close to 
> the throw.


Sent from xcode-users to Cocoa-dev.

David is correct... it is recoverable in that the app isn't dead. 
However, the NSDocument that failed to read is now in an 
unrecoverable state....

b.bum