Tk Toolkit / Read-Only Bugs (original) (raw)

The following script:

% entry .e
% pack .e

will crash TkAqua8.6b1.1 when entering a circumflex (the ^ character) into the entry. This is true for both the i386 and the x86_64 builds. The error message is:

2009-12-02 11:17:30.936 wish-aqua8.6[6459:903] An uncaught exception was raised
2009-12-02 11:17:30.939 wish-aqua8.6[6459:903] *** -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds
2009-12-02 11:17:31.023 wish-aqua8.6[6459:903] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85879444 __exceptionPreprocess + 180
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8496d0f3 objc_exception_throw + 45
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85879267 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 103
3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff858791f4 +[NSException raise:format:] + 148
4 Foundation 0x00007fff801803d5 -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:] + 97
5 Tk 0x00000001000c52e0 Tk_SetCaretPos + 674
6 Tk 0x00000001000cb9db Tk_MacOSXSetupTkNotifier + 701
7 Tcl 0x00000001001f4486 Tcl_DoOneEvent + 297
8 Tk 0x000000010001d8e0 Tk_MainLoop + 24
9 Tk 0x000000010002b36a Tk_MainEx + 1491
10 wish-aqua8.6 0x000000010000548b 0x0 + 4294988939
11 wish-aqua8.6 0x00000001000053d0 0x0 + 4294988752
12 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
Abort trap