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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

It doesn't happen when I undo something, it happens when I perform an
action that can be undone. Typically happens the first time I interact
with an object after starting eeschema.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:47:26AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> The current undo item cannot be null so the assertion is raised and then
> skips swapping the undo information between the two objects when the
> users chooses to continue.  Is there a particular item where you undo
> edits that causes the assertion or does it seem to be any item?  This
> would help me narrow the issue down to a certain block of code.
> Somewhere the current undo item is not being set properly which is
> causing the assertion.
> 
> On 7/26/2016 10:27 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Thanks. It's annoying (mostly as I tend to instinctively dismiss it with
> > escape and that makes wx abort the whole application...) and I'm not
> > really familiar enough with the undo code to know what the problem is.
> > I don't _think_ anything is seriously broken, as it seems to work when I
> > dismiss it properly, but that assertion must have been added for a
> > reason.
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 08:09:07AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> Duh!  I was thinking wxLogDebug not wxASSERT.  I'll start running debug
> >> builds to see if I can figure out why this is assertion is being triggered.
> >>
> >> On 7/25/2016 8:32 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >>> No need for a terminal on Linux, wx displays assertions in dialogs in
> >>> debug mode.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>> On 7/25/2016 7:44 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >>>>> I'm getting a _lot_ of the following assertion lately. Did someone
> >>>>> change something?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /home/cmp/git/kicad/eeschema/schframe.cpp(593): assert "m_undoItem !=
> >>>>> __null" failed in SaveUndoItemInUndoList(): Cannot swap undo item
> >>>>> structures.  Bad programmer!.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Not that I'm aware of but I haven't been running kicad from a terminal
> >>>> on linux or with a debug output viewer on windows lately so it could
> >>>> have been broken for awhile.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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