[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11174) client segfaults w/o map_canvas_resized()

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11174 >

> [fbriere@xxxxxxxxxxx - Wed Nov 24 04:34:17 2004]:
> 
> Hi!  I'm working on a new client, and was bitten by a subtle bug: it
> seems that client/mapview_common.c never bothers to initialize
> mapview_canvas, but instead relies on the client to call
> map_canvas_resized() when the canvas is created.  Since I'm not to the
> point where I can display a map yet, I had to stick a dummy call to
> prevent a segfault.
> 
> It seems to me that mapview_common should either initialize
> mapview_canvas early on, or better yet, skip any rendering on it until
> the client has initialized it via map_canvas_resized().

init_mapcanvas_and_overview() would be a good candidate for this I
think.  Or we could just skip the drawing, as you say.  Either way, will
you make a patch?

-jason