If moderators from Affinity are already stopping by to take care of this, I'll have to make some effort to get this nasty bug fixed.
I think I finally can identify it, because I can reproduce it now!
What I had tried after reading some solutions in the forum (Some information for the programmers to rule things out):
- Background programs: Whether I run other programs, in the background or not, the bug remains.
- OpenCL support on/off does not change the crash of Designer.
- Whether I use a network drive as export location or not (Dropbox, Seadrive, etc...) does not change the behavior.
- Changing the location of the original .afdesigner file to a local drive also has no positive effect.
- crashpad_handler.exe should, if I understood correctly, create a log file. I do have log files in the crash report folder, but not for this bug. Today, not a single crash report was created, although designer had crashed many times in a row while bug hunting.
Observation:
- Designer crashes exclusively in the Export Persona.
- Windows or MacOS is irrelevant because the same problem occurs on both systems.
Reproduction:
- What I found is, that the crash only happens when the same slicename is used twice, (the yellow attention icon is visible) and I'm scrolling with the mouse wheel!!! Even if I go through the list of slices using the left mouse button and the scrollbar, Designer does not crash. It only happens when I use the mouse wheel!
That's the pain in a programmer's life! I can't blame them for not being able to track down and fix the problem so far. Thank you guys for fixing it in advance! 😉
If anyone thinks, I have earned myself a free v2 License, I wouldn't say "no". 😜
Cheers!