Bug 540 - Mac Os X Instability - Crashes when disposing NEWT Window (.. and after Applet shutdown)

Dear All,

I have summarised the instability (some crashed) on OS X so far:

  https://jogamp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=540

It would be great if another person could review the code as
described in the bug report.

Thank you in advance.

~Sven

Do you know any good tutorial explaining how the windowing works on Mac OS X? Maybe the container releases its children itself, this is just a supposition.

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 07:26:20 PM gouessej [via jogamp] wrote:
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> Do you know any good tutorial explaining how the windowing works on Mac OS X?
Just the weakisch online docs from Apple and what you can google :)

In theory .. retain/release should work fine,
but in case of the CALayer we use, relying on release cause the actual release
of our NSGLLayer only at applet shutdown .. Just an example.

> Maybe the container releases its children itself, this is just a
> supposition.

It does, however, if none is in there .. :)

I will try this out ofc, ie leaving the view in at final destruction.
We still have related instabilities and need a proper review though.
Guess it needs a bit time to make it rock solid.

~Sven