[nightly build] Libedit save as crash bug? (SOLVED)

Coul someone confim me this:

  • run the Kicad launcher,
  • click a library editor icon,
  • select menu File \ Save Current Libraty As…
  • here I get GPF.
    Anyone else?

Application: kicad
Version: (2017-04-02 revision 2c33fad45)-makepkg, release build
Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2k zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.19.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

  • Build Info -
    wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.60.0
    Curl: 7.52.1
    KiCad - Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 with C++ ABI 1010
    Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
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Generally any GPF should not happen, so it is worth investigating.

The following is a standard answer, since it occurs so frequently

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Monitor the following sources of information in order to find information about recent changes and known issues:

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Unless you absolutely need a feature only found in a nightly build, or wish to participate in advanced testing, you should use a stable release. If you publish projects or footprints created using KiCad, you should use a stable release version as otherwise the project may be unusable by people using the latest stable release.

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I was able to replicate this, so I have raised it.

It is not a valid thing to do as there is no library selected or symbol to save, but crashes should not happen.

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Fixed immediately, that was fast :sunglasses:
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=1f3fe6fefb77fdbcd80ee673e0167d3ff3585942

Cool, thanks for helping to improve KiCad :thumbsup:

Crashes do seem to get swift attention.

Latest Windows nightly 4/4/2017 now has the invalid “save as” disabled, preventing the crash