Re: gEDA-user: gschem 1.4.0 crashing while editing symbol attributes

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 10:56 +0200, Christoph Lechner wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I can crash gschem version 1.4.0 reproducibly by doing the following:
> 
> 1) fire up gschem from the shell (empty sheet!)
> 2) add a spice-directive-1 symbol
> 3) highlight the new symbol and type ee to open the "Edit Attributes" window
> 4) right click the 'file' attribute and select delete from the menu
> popping up
> 5) click on the value of the 'value' attribute and remote the question
> mark by hitting the backspace key
> 6) then right click on the now empty value of the 'value' attribute
> (doesn't work for me if the value field isn't empty)
> 
> *crash*

Thanks for the report.

This issue is related to a bug I'm hoping to fix over the next day or
so. Basically - in this case, something went wrong with the attribute
validation. It isn't supposed to allow a blank value. (This is part of
the definition of a valid gEDA attribute).

I knew about the crash on invalid attributes. I didn't previously know
the multi-attrib editor could be used to create one.. I thought the
validation was working, so I'm really glad you reported this.

Best regards,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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