Re: Crash Reporter for Cocoa Application
Re: Crash Reporter for Cocoa Application
- Subject: Re: Crash Reporter for Cocoa Application
- From: Nicko van Someren <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:35:44 +0000
On 12 Nov 2007, at 01:15, John Stiles wrote:
There's no way to tell Apple's crash reporter to send reports to
you. You can write your own crash reporter app or find open-source
ones.
Perhaps the easiest thing to do, though, is to look in the ~/Library/
CrashReporter/YourApp folder when the app starts up, and see if any
new files are there. If so, the user crashed in their previous run,
and you can offer to send in the report. Voila, a crash reporter in
a very small amount of code (and it's not fiddly like catching
signals or dealing with Mach exceptions can be).
About 18 months Uli Kusterer and I both posted code for handling crash
reports. The two methods employed each have their own benefits and
drawbacks. You can find the posts here:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2006/Feb/msg00360.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2006/Feb/msg00586.html
Having said that, this seems like something so many people want to do
that perhaps Apple should consider adding some code to their Crash
Reporter which looks in the Info.plist of the crashed application for
a URL to which to post crash information and give the user an easy way
to report crashed in 3rd party apps. I think I shall file an
enhancement request to this effect.
Cheers,
Nicko
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