Comment 5 for bug 1659526

I just tried this once again (windows 10) by selecting an entire
digi-key component web page and it didn't crash. I also tried a dozen
or so iterations of partial pages with no luck. The next time you
manage to make kicad crash doing this, please save the contents of your
clipboard to a text file and attach it to this report. Maybe that will
give us a clue.

On 10/27/2017 3:49 AM, Oivind Toien 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
>