[Haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #2762: media player consistently crashes

[jackburton]

#2762: media player consistently crashes
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  Reporter:  kvdman                    |       Owner:  stippi        
      Type:  bug                       |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  R1            
 Component:  Applications/MediaPlayer  |     Version:  R1 development
Resolution:                            |   Blockedby:                
  Platform:  All                       |    Blocking:                
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Comment(by jackburton):

 I think I've found the problem, but I don't have any idea on how to solve
 this correctly.
 Basically, what happens is that The window thread starts (sometimes)
 before the MainApp constructor returns, and receives a B_WINDOW_ACTIVATED
 message from the app_server. Then, the WindowActivated() code calls
 Controller::PlayerActivated(), which in turn dereferences gMainApp.
 gMainApp isn't yet initialized, since the MainApp constructor hasn't
 returned yet.
 I've fixed the crash by initializing gMainApp in the MainApp constructor,
 like this:

 gMainApp = be_app

 and moving the creation of the window after that line.
 But again, I'm not sure it's a good solution.
 Maybe we should, in some way, delay the activation of the window after the
 BApplication has been run.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2762#comment:5>
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