MySQL Bugs: #37434: Bug in Applescript implementation causes frequent application crashes

Bug #37434	Bug in Applescript implementation causes frequent application crashes
Submitted:	16 Jun 2008 19:28	Modified:	3 Feb 2009 16:26
Reporter:	Dave Lyon	Email Updates:
Status:	Unsupported	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Query Browser	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	1.2.12	OS:	MacOS (10.5.x)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	mac

Description:
I love the Query Browser and use it constantly throughout the day. Following my leopard clean install I had tons of problems with crashing- it would often crash just on launching the Universal version. By downgrading to a previous PPC version I could use it with about 1 daily crash. Then I discovered that when I didn't have Default Folder X running, the current Universal version ran great. After talking to the Default Folder X guys it turns out that it's a bug in the MySQL Query Browser's handling of AppleScript. Other apps that hook into AppleScript may also cause the crashes. I've been crash free since adding Query Browser to the Default Folder X exception list!

Note that I am not advocating applescript support- just that something in Query Browser causes it to crash on certain Applescript calls.

How to repeat:
You can run Default Folder X as I did, but the developer sent me instructions to reproduce the issue using just Applescript (showing that it's not a Default Folder X problem)

1. Run MySQL Query Browser

2. Run Script Editor (it's in /Applications/AppleScript/).

3. In Script Editor, paste this script into the window and click the "Run" button:
tell application "MySQL Query Browser"
beep
end tell

MySQL Query Browser will promptly crash, just as it did when Default Folder X was running. The reason for this is that Script Editor does the same thing Default Folder X does - it tells MySQL Query Browser to load its scripting additions. This triggers a bug in it that causes it to crash.

Suggested fix:
On the call to load scripting additions, do so so that other apps that may call it won't inadvertently crash it.

Bug is not repeatable on Tiger

As stated in the OS field, this is for Leopard (10.5.x) not Tiger (10.4.x). I never had any issues with Tiger.

This is a duplicate of #32892.

This is critical for me too - when can we expect a fix?

Many thanks for writing a bug report.

We are on the way to implement full functionality of MySQL Query Browser into Workbench.

Mac OS X is not a supported platform for MySQL Query Browser.

For more informations about supported platforms look here:
http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/tools.html