[MacRuby-devel] Error allocating an NSMenu

Gabriel Gilder gabriel at gabrielgilder.com
Tue Dec 14 13:07:00 PST 2010


Great, thanks for clearing that up!

-Gabriel


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Laurent Sansonetti
<lsansonetti at apple.com>wrote:

> Hi Gabriel,
>
> You can safely remove all the retain, release and autorelease messages from
> your code, as they are not needed in MacRuby (because it uses garbage
> collection).
>
> Laurent
>
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Gabriel Gilder wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just installed MacRuby 0.8 and discovered that my project is generating an
> error on a line of code that worked previously... it's in a handler that
> creates a contextual menu, but I can recreate the error just by running this
> line:
>
> theMenu = NSMenu.alloc.initWithTitle("Contextual Menu").autorelease
>
>
> The error produced is:
>
>
> *2010-12-14 11:47:07.275 MenuTest[37416:a0f]
> /Users/ggilder/Desktop/MenuTest/build/Debug/MenuTest.app/Contents/Resources/TestController.rb:11:in
> `doTest:': undefined method `__hidden__autorelease' for
> #<NSMenu:0x2005c1c00> (NoMethodError)*
> * from
> /Users/ggilder/Desktop/MenuTest/build/Debug/MenuTest.app/Contents/Resources/rb_main.rb:23:in
> `<main>'*
>
>
> If I remove the call to autorelease at the end, it works correctly. The
> same thing happens on a similar call, NSMenuItem.alloc.init.autorelease
>
>
> This code worked fine before the 0.8 release, but I wanted to double-check
> whether this code is correct before submitting a bug... I assume that I
> should call autorelease for garbage collection, is that wrong?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -Gabriel
>
>
>
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