This concerns the current cocoa version in cvs: When typing into the monitor and accidentally pressing a dead key, qemu quits immediately and all unsafed data in the guest os is lost:
2005-12-04 15:15:00.833 qemu[193] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds Even if you don't have a Mac, you can retrace this bug by following these links: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSEvent.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSEvent/characters http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSString.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSString/characterAtIndex: [event characters] returns an empty string for dead keys, and so calling [[event characters] characterAtIndex:0] will raise an NSRangeException that crashes qemu. The following patch fixes this bug: Index: cocoa.m =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/qemu/qemu/cocoa.m,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -r1.5 cocoa.m --- cocoa.m 30 Oct 2005 18:24:49 -0000 1.5 +++ cocoa.m 4 Dec 2005 16:16:28 -0000 @@ -454,8 +454,11 @@ kbd_put_keysym(QEMU_KEY_UP); break; default: + { + NSString *ks = [event characters]; + if ([ks length] > 0) + kbd_put_keysym([ks characterAtIndex:0]); + } - kbd_put_keysym([[event characters] characterAtIndex:0]); - break; } } } To Mike Kronenberg: Q has the same problem. Pressing a dead key in the monitor locks the emulation and you're not able to do anything further. Would you be so kind to confirm this? It seems that Fabrice doesn't trust my fixes. Thanks! Regards Jo. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
