PR# 12138 Sequence of saving, opening and resetting tools layout causes crash

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: prestoat2000

Category: EiffelStudio

Priority: Medium

Date: 2007/02/25

Class: Bug

Severity: Serious

Number: 12138

Release: 6.0.66833

Confidential: No

Status: Closed

Responsible:

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061228 Firefox/2.0 Solaris 10 on x64

Synopsis: Sequence of saving, opening and resetting tools layout causes crash

Description

A particular sequence of saving, opening and resetting tools layout leads to
a sitution where there is one Warning window that is a tab in the main window
and a second Warning window that is undocked from main window.  Further
manipulations then result in a layout open error and then a crash.

To Reproduce

Delete ~/.es directory.
Compile sample nongraphical application.
Select View/Open Layout.  Click Cancel.
Select View/Save Layout As.  Save the layout under name "weasel".
Select View/Open Layout and open layout "weasel".
Select View/Reset Tools Layout.
Now there is a Warnings window that is a tab in main window and a second
   Warnings window that is undocked and in upper left corner of screen.
Select View/Reset Tools Layout again.
Select View/Save Layout As.  Save the layout under name "stoat".
Select View/Open Layout and open layout "stoat".
Estudio reports a layout open error.  Click Retry.  Appears to work.
Select View/Open Layout and open layout "stoat".
Estudio crashes with no trace.

Problem Report Interactions

From:larryl Date:2007/03/02 Status: Closed Download

The error started at:
"Now there is a Warnings window that is a tab in main window and a second
Warnings window that is undocked and in upper left corner of screen."
After revisoin#67034, this bug is fixed.
Thanks for your report.