[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7499) problems with detachable panes

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7499 >

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:33:12AM -0800, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7499 >
> 
> > [vasc - Tue Feb 24 17:32:02 2004]:
> > 
> > I think I know why the bug happens. The code used to draw directly to
> > 'overview_canvas->window'. Now you copy the pointer to a struct, and use
> > that pointer. But what if the pointer value in the original
> > 'overview_canvas' was changed uh? Yep. Boom!
> > 
> > I'm working on a fix.
> 
> Yep, that was the bug allright. Confirmed it with a debug printf. Here
> is a fix.

I see that I caused this.

The fix isn't this nice. And the other clients may have the same
problem. The alternative would be a new function get_overview_window.

        Raimar

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