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Re: Does AXObserverRemoveNotification work?
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Re: Does AXObserverRemoveNotification work?


  • Subject: Re: Does AXObserverRemoveNotification work?
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:53:36 -0500

on 02-11-18 7:44 PM, Eric Schlegel at email@hidden wrote:

> On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
>
>> When I call AXObserverRemoveNotification in my assistive app, the
>> target
>> application unexpectedly quits, and the function generates a
>> kAXErrorCannotComplete error.
>
> This is a known bug in the Carbon accessibility implementation which
> will be fixed in an upcoming software update.
>
> There's no workaround other than just not calling
> AXObserverRemoveNotification.

How about releasing the observer and starting over with a new one? It means
giving up any other notifications that have been registered with that
observer, of course, but I could write a routine to remember them and
reinstate them with a new observer. Just wondering if you know if it would
work, before I invest any time in it.

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