Comment 4 for bug 1659526

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Oivind Toien (otoien) wrote :

A comment to this fix, based on experience with the Sept 19 version, running under Win7: I have on a couple of occasions found that KiCad crashes when pasting information into the fields of the Field Properties dialog of in EESchema, typically part numbers from the Digi-Key site. Sometimes, actually fairly often, copying from Digikey somehow fails to copy the right information and instead copies a large field that appears to be blank but seems to also contain other characters like tabs. It is not consequent, often I can just continue and redo the copy - paste without any harm, but a few times pasting has caused a crash, so perhaps there is occasionally bad information or too much information pasted that KiCad cannot handle that leads to the crash.

Application: kicad
Version: (2017-09-19 revision dddaa7e69)-makepkg, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.3
    libcurl/7.54.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.60.0
    Curl: 7.54.1
    Compiler: GCC 7.1.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build 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=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_SPICE=ON