Tremendous, brilliant, and as always, here's Slava enhancing and making Mac OS X better than Apple can. Thanks!

Finally! Thanks Unsanity, this is absolutely amazing!

Is there any way I can avoid the "email ticket" with Unsanity? I don't mind it, but the higher-ups will. I can provide my own server, no problem there...

Silly me... I printed the docs to read them, and there it is: if I provide my own CGI web server, I don't need to register inSubmissionEmailTicket. So there!

The email ticket is only required if you want the crash logs emailed to you. You don't need it if your web server will process the log itself. See http://www.unsanity.org/slava/smartcrashreports/Functions/Functions.html#//apple_ref/c/func/UnsanitySCR_RegisterMatchSpecifier for more information.

The email ticket is required for emails because there is no way to send the email from the user's computer so it has to be "redirected".

Sweet idea. Apple should have thought of something like this (a long time ago). Now just figure out a way for third parties to make use of Software Update ;)

Is there a way to know wich application are recognized by the smart reporter?

Sounds like a fantastic idea, but not terribly useful unless you can get your average joe users to install it. The alternative would be to use an installer for your application that installs Smart Crash Reports as well, but that's not desirable.

While this can help third party developers, PLEASE send the crash logs to Apple as well as the 3rd party developer. Just because NotAnAppleAppX.app crashes, it still may have been caused by a problem in Apple's libraries. Not receiving these reports makes those situations much harder to find.

The Ventcore, it will. The Send to Apple button will disappear and it will always send to both. It was realized after b1 one how to do this so it isn't in b1.

An InputManager plugin to send crash emails to the developer? Why didn't I think of that?

http://mikezornek.com/blog/etc/ADHOC_2004_showcase_notes.txt

Oh, I did! :) Good to see that you're running with the idea. I never really had the balls.

Brilliant idea! I've always tried to send the reports whenever a crash occurs. Now I know that this will reach the correct people (e.g. the developer)

1. Can we have it send to both Apple and Developer?
2. Can we save the report and send it later?

XCool:

1. Yes; Implemented that in 1.0b3.
2. How do you envision this process?

As a developer, I'd be very wary of adding something like this to my user's systems - it automatically injects unknown (to me, at least) code into every running Cocoa application. Releasing it as open source would make it a lot less scary, since I would be able to see exactly what it's doing.

Ian, this is the code that will be executed in every Cocoa application:

- init
{
if (self=[super init])
{
NSString* bundleID = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier];

if (bundleID && [bundleID isEqualToString:@"com.apple.CrashReporter"])
{
sSCRBundle = [[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]] retain];
if (!sSCR)
sSCR = self;
[self install];
}
}
return self;
}

As you can see, if the application is NOT CrashReporter, then no other code will be executed in any other process.

Do you see any bugs in the only code that will execute in third party applications?

". . . here's Slava enhancing and making Mac OS X better than Apple can. Thanks!"

That seems rather offensive and without veracity.

I don't see Unsanity writing an /entire OS/ but I don't say that Apple's making a better OS than Unsanity can.

As a total NON-Developer (total average joe user, re: Kevin Ballard Sept. 2nd post), why COULDN'T this be rolled into developer's application installers? It can check for a pre-existing version, installing itself if newer. Licensed out to developers, It could become ubiquitous, much as Allume Systems' (nee Aladdin) Installer Vise of OS9 heritage. Us Average-Joe-Users wouldn't have to seek it out, hunt it down, wonder what we were downloading and installing. Our favorate apps (and by extension: admired developers) would vouch for it, provide it for us and educate us in its importance. Perhaps this is also an argument for open-sourcing it, relying on your generousity of spirit. No doubt there's a laundry list of issues I'm unfamiliar with in proposing this, but the thought of it struck me almost immediately, less than half-way through DrunkenBlog's article on it (which sent me here). Come to think of it, perhaps I'll post this there, too.

For what it's worth, I run OSX 10.4.2 on a 400 MHz Blue & White, where it crashes all the time (BRAND new install, no haxies, mods or alterations, clean and basic) and on a new 1.67 GHz 17" pBook, factory install, where it's stable, predictable, works-as-it-should (also no mods). For our B&W, I'd be sending out Crash Reports like mad (and did, to Apple all through May '05)!

Uhm, it can be rolled into developer's application installers. We've made an API to ease with this as well. And Installer Vise is made by MindVision, not Aladdin.

I am not happy that the Fruitmenu 3.4.2 installer *also* installs Smart Crash Reports, without any advance warning. The Fruitmenu documentation does not mention SCR.

When I am asked to install SmartCrash, I keep saying no and also check the box not to ask me again... and it keeps asking me. Can you post how to uninstall or permanently disable it?

I have the same problem as Todd. It keeps asking me even after I tell it not to install and don't ask me again. It refuses to listen! What is this, spyware or nagware?

Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag screen.

Day after day after day after day after day.

I check "Don't ask again". I click "Do Not Install".

But this is ignored by you're supremely ignorant and user unfriendly malware.

For f**ks sake someone! FIX THIS PIECE OF SH*T!

ditto above - this shitty software asks me everytime if i want to install it, regardles of whether i click 'dont ask me again' or not!

Ditto. How can I get rid of this annoying thing? Every time I startup my Mac I get this nag screen - no matter what. I did not ask for this to be installed and I want rid of it.

Unsanity - answer the countless people on these threads who are asking the same question instead of just ignoring us.