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Fix macOS toolbar crash - #30863
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Fix macOS toolbar crash#30863
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Makes sense and I manually tested.
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Thanks @lilfer! If you're in macos backend bug squashing mode, there are several other similar reference counting issues hanging around I think if you have any ideas for those too: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22GUI%3A%20MacOSX%22 |
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… fix Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
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PR summary
Closes #28513
Fixes a segmentation fault in the _macosx backend that occurs when closing figures.
In the original implementation of
NavigationToolbar2, it relied on the window to hold the only strong reference tomessagebox. The toolbar sometimes living longer than the window—and thusmessagebox— resulted in the crash.I'm still not sure why this crash seems to only occur when closing a figure that was created in the event loop.
Fix:
NavigationToolbar2now also retainsmessagebox.I checked that
messageboxis deallocated after a figure is closed andgc.collect()runs.PR checklist