Igor, take a look back in the messages from January 25th 2010
	Re: [Pharo-project] new mac menu code 
There may be something related there?


On 2010-10-15, at 9:41 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> mouseTrailFrom: currentBuf
> 	"Current event, a mouse event buffer, is about to be processed.  If
> there are other similar mouse events queued up, then drop them from
> the queue, and report the positions inbetween."
> 
> 	| nextEvent trail |
> 	trail := (Array new: 1) writeStream.
> 	trail nextPut: currentBuf third @ currentBuf fourth.
> *a*	[(nextEvent := Sensor peekEvent) isNil] whileFalse:
> 			[nextEvent first = currentBuf first
> 				ifFalse: [^trail contents	"different event type"].
> 			nextEvent fifth = currentBuf fifth
> 				ifFalse: [^trail contents	"buttons changed"].
> 			nextEvent sixth = currentBuf sixth
> 				ifFalse: [^trail contents	"modifiers changed"].
> 			"nextEvent is similar.  Remove it from the queue, and check the next."
> *b*			nextEvent := Sensor nextEvent.
> 			trail nextPut: nextEvent third @ nextEvent fourth].
> 	^trail contents
> 
> 
> Here, the bug:
> first it sends #peekEvent and its not nil.
> Okay, then after some logic voodo, it sends nextEvent, without
> precaution, that it may also answer nil!
> 
> So, if some other process get between these two sends (*a*, *b*) and
> fetch/flush all events, a code will fail,
> because
> 'nextEvent third' is DNU , when nextEvent == nil.
> 
> The fix is simple:
> 
> nextEvent := Sensor nextEvent.
> nextEvent ifNotNil: [ trail nextPut: nextEvent third @ nextEvent fourth]
> 
> Both Pharo & Squeak contain this bug. But this method slightly differs
> from each other.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
> 
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