charm @ 1.8.0+ : Weird entries in charm's "Edit" menu

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

There are as many "Start Dictation..." menu items in the "Edit" menu as (sub)tasks are defined by the user.

Is this a bug or a feature?

Shall I attach a screenshot?

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

That's the Qt5 version I take it?

What happens when you activate them?

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

No, that happens ONLY for the qt4 version here.

Clicking on those menu item does NOTHING.

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The Qt5 version has only one such entry, i.e. the one above "Special Characters...".

Clicking on this one triggers showing the OSX dictation dialog.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

screenshot of Edit menu

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

I get the same issue, in fact. And clicking on either item gives me this on the terminal (truncated):

2015-01-19 23:09:32.594 charmtimetracker[98249:303] -[QCocoaMenuLoader startDictation:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fcacbc847f0
2015-01-19 23:09:32.601 charmtimetracker[98249:303] (
        0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8321e25c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
        1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8cc46e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
        2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8322112d -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205
        3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8317c272 ___forwarding___ + 1010
        4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8317bdf8 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
        5   AppKit                              0x00007fff8555f260 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 327
        6   AppKit                              0x00007fff8557a1c8 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 394
        7   AppKit                              0x00007fff85579f04 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] 

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Ah, I see, looks like a true bug then. :)

Not that I know what one needs this weird "Dictation" for...

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

BTW, it appears that the number of "Start Dictation..." entries increases with time. Currently I reached 13.

Restarting the app removes the additional entries again. Turns out that hiding/showing the three editor windows causes the entries to appear in the "Edit" menu.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

BTW, I also opened a ​ticket at Charm's issue tracker for another glitch I noticed on Qt4 only.

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

Replying to mk@…:

BTW, it appears that the number of "Start Dictation..." entries increases with time. Currently I reached 13.

Restarting the app removes the additional entries again. Turns out that hiding/showing the three editor windows causes the entries to appear in the "Edit" menu.

Have you tried building the stock source to see if that makes any difference?

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

Replying to mk@…:

BTW, I also opened a ​ticket at Charm's issue tracker for another glitch I noticed on Qt4 only.

Yep, I have that too.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Replying to rjvbertin@…:

Have you tried building the stock source to see if that makes any difference?

No, I am building the port as it currently is.

(Well, the same source does work on Qt5 without these two issues.)

[RJVB (René Bertin)]

I think it's clear that the author hasn't tested Charm against Qt4 on OS X for a while ... or he'd have noticed that Q_OS_OSX isn't defined there.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Replying to rjvbertin@…:

I think it's clear that the author hasn't tested Charm against Qt4 on OS X for a while ... or he'd have noticed that Q_OS_OSX isn't defined there.

Oh, have you found the spot where the qt4 code differs from qt5, by any chance? :-)

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

It looks like I have managed to bonk my installed charm by enabling (local) dictation in "System Preferences/Dictation & Speech/Dictation" with "Use Enhanced Dictation" checked.

Even after the successful download of the "Enhanced Dictation" stuff from Apple I realize that the main menu of charm.app stays empty when I restart it and its three windows aren't shown anymore.

The app doesn't respond to CMD+[123] either, so that I cannot make it show its windows. :(

Disabling dictation again doesn't help either. :(

I needed to reset Charm's configuration by removing Charm's plist file

~/Library/Preferences/com.kdab.Charm.plist

followed by a re-logon. ;-)

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

As this issue is tracked on Charm's bug tracker we close this as "won't fix" here.