Well that sounds an impossible problem, but might not be. Give us the crash 
report too.

On 1 Nov 2012, at 12:11, Antonio Nunes <devli...@sintraworks.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have this code in my app:
> 
> - (void)keyDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent
> {
>       unichar         oneChar;
>       NSString        *theChars = [theEvent charactersIgnoringModifiers];
>       
>       if ( 0 == theChars.length ) {
>               return;
>       }
>       
>       oneChar = [theChars characterAtIndex:0];
>       
>       …
> }
> 
> After about 10 months of the app being available, with this method unchanged, 
> I received a single crash report that points to a crash on the last line:
> -[__NSCFConstantString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds
> 
> 
> The length property of a string returns an NSUInteger, so it should never be 
> lower than zero. I don't see how the out of bounds error could ever happen 
> for index 0, when the string has a length greater than 0. Any ideas? 
> (Considering that I only ever received a single report for what is an often 
> exercised bit of code, should I just consider this a freak incident and 
> ignore it?)
> 
> -António
> 
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