Re: NSPopUpButtonCell (was: Disappointed by GNUstep)

On 2022-02-08 21:35:55 +0400 Wolfgang Lux <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>> _menu is owned by a superclass and released there. See -[NSCell 
>> dealloc].

> Doh, you are right.
> I somehow convinced myself into believing that _menu was an instance 
> variable 
> of NSPopUpButtonCell . :-(

I also thought along that line initially but NSPopUpButtonCell retains 
_menu in its own
-[setMenu:].

> Now what is confusing me is that by applying your patch we are full 
> circle 
> back to before b7f5fb2, which had added the call to setMenu: to the 
> dealloc 
> method in the first place. According to the log this was done in an 
> attempt 
> to fix a leak of the menu. It feels like I'm missing something here.

The method -[setMenu:] moves from a state with menuA to a state with 
menuB.
The -[deallloc] is special. It should take the current state, clear it 
and go to void.

Besides that there is no point to have _menu == nil somewhere in a 
running application
except for initialization and deallocation.
An empty menu should be of NSMenu anyway, not nil. So instead
of the call -[setMenu: nil] (illegitimate in my opinion)  only a bunch 
of -[release] is required
to avoid leaking  (as you suggested/pointed out). May be something 
like -[clear] to do things
I overlooked.

https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/pull/137

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