August 2010
3 posts
Lithoglyphics: LadyBugz 1.6.9: More Bug Fixes →
We’ve just released LadyBugz 1.6.9. It turns out that 1.6.7 didn’t completely fix the crashing bugs, and from the crash reports we’ve received (thanks everyone for letting us know!), it concentrated in one specific area. We’ve revamped that part of the code, and version 1.6.9 should clear that issue now.
Another Mile to Go in the GC-back-to-NonGC... →
From Lithoglyphics, the blog of my company:
We have just released LadyBugz 1.6.6, available from our website and through auto update.
After we released LadyBugz 1.6.1, we have received a number of bug reports that it crashed at various places. We realized that our garbage collection transition was not completely done, and there were loose ends that we overlooked. We take those issues...
Cyclic Retention Pitfall in Objective-C Blocks
Update: Please Mark Dalrymple’s article for a more elegant solution. In short, use __block instead of the NSValue trick below.
Is it tempting to write the following code:
NSBlockOperation *op = [[[NSBlockOperation alloc] init] autorelease];
[op addExecutionBlock:^(void) {
if (![op isCancelled]) {
// run the block if the operation is not cancelled
}
...