Hitting *Tab* in the Input Field of the Metrics Window Yields a Segmentation Fault

[baskerville]

Step to reproduce:

• Open any font.

• Select any character.

• Open the Metrics window (Ctrl-K).

• Hit Tab.

[Barry Schwartz]

I stuck in a quick workaround that, I suspect, does not restore the intended behavior, but at least avoids the immediate cause of the segfault.

[Barry Schwartz]

Workaround in place, but the intended behavior may be different. (We didn’t write it, so don’t know without investigating. :) )

[Barry Schwartz]

I should point out the commit in case you want to just patch rather than sync to the latest code: https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/sortsmill-fontforge/commits/4186a29752df68472a256f9fc32bd486e769477f

[Khaled Hosny]

I had the same change last night, but didn’t push it pending investigating the wrote of the issue.

[Khaled Hosny]

OK, this fix is all needed actually. The metrics view text field is initialized with GTextInfo array (mv_text_init) that has a separator line and separator lines have NULL text.