On 08/06/08 12:18, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No, it's not a related to preferences not being written. It is a
> genuine bug triggered by code in Skim. However it's a bug in the
> system frameworks or the objective-c runtime, the system is messing up
> loading code. I've filed a bug report with Apple about this and
> implemented a workaround in Skim.
> 
> And to 'explain' what Matthieu describes in his second mail: when you
> set the "jump" setting while Skim is running, Skim will notice, but
> when you've got this pref set *before* launching Skim, Skim won't
> notice. The reason is probably because this system pref is read around
> the time it loads the code, at the time the problem occurs.
> 
> For people knowing Objective-C: the problem occurs when you send /any/
> message to the NSScroller class in the +load method in an NSScroller
> category.

I think messaging a class from its own +load is a bad idea, but it would be
interesting to hear what the objc-language list thinks; I really doubt it's
a runtime bug.  At least one side effect is that messaging the class from a
+load will cause +initialize to be sent immediately [1], so any setup it
does in +initialize will happen before your +load finishes.

-- 
Adam

[1] http://lists.apple.com/archives/objc-language/2004/Mar/msg00006.html


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