Re: NSControls failing to set status/label on BigEndian/64bit

> Am 05.01.2021 um 01:28 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
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> Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> thank you for pointing out this issue. As I don’t have a Bigendian 64 bit system you will have to do the testing to pin this down. First I would propose that you add a few NSLog statements in NSButtonCell.m after line 1773. Most likely the data is not aligned in the unsigned int in the way the code expects it to be. The structure _GSButtonCellFlags is defined in GSCodingFlags.h and the code expects it to have 32 bits.
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> for a moment, I thought the "state" could not be correct: since not only buttons (but let's not forget also popupmenus and some fields) do not display correctly, but even if I change the state by clicking they don't correct, so it is not only an init problem of the state.
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> I put some NSLogs in NSCell.m in setState: and the state is correctly set and toggled.
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> I then put my attention in drawInteriorWithFrame of NSButtonCell
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> line 1094, after the mask is calculated, do you expect it to be always 0, both for on and off state? It is always 0 for me.

As you can see a few lines above the value of mask depends on _cell.is_highlighted and _cell.state. You should output these two values as well. Next it could be either _highlightsByMask or _showAltStateMask. Sou you need to check these values as well. If they are zero you should go back to the decoding method and see wether these values get decoded correctly. The best way to check is to do the same on a 32 bit or 64 little endian system and compare the results. Form files should decode the same for both systems.

Hope this helps,
Fred