Re: dia0.96pre: Crash when moving/clicking vertical switch

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, christian ridderstrom gmail com wrote:

The stuff below has been filed as
        http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402117

> I've found a crash that's quite easy to reproduce in dia0.96pre in Windows.
>
> 1. Open the diagram
>
>         http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/dia/bug2.dia
>
> 2. Select everything by pressing Ctrl-a (this selects 3 objects)
> 3. Copy the selected objects by pressing ctrl-c
> 3. Paste the copied objects by pressing Ctrl-v
> 4. Click on an empty part of the diagram to select nothing
> 5. Among the objects you just pasted, click on the 'vertical switch'
>    that is located inside the square.
>
>         => Crash
>
> And you've lost all changes as well :-(
>
> I've lost data a few times now... How can I make Dia perform auto-saves more 
> frequently?
>
> For the future: Even better than auto-save would be if Dia managed to do an 
> emergency save, like e.g. LyX. I started with LyX at v0.12, used it for 6 
> years and only lost data twice I think.  As an aside, it'd be good if Dia 
> detected a recent crash, looked for auto-saved files and asked the user if 
> they should be opened and used to replace the originals.
>
> cheers
> /Christian

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