Using Special Characters in "States" Panel Search Box Causes Crash

[- S -]

If special characters (such as those below for example) are used in the "States" Panel "Layer name is…" search box and "Regular Expressions" is enabled, it will cause Affinity Photo to crash.

* ? (

Although it won't crash if the special characters are escaped with a backslash, it probably shouldn't crash the application if the user enters special characters directly into the search field.

 

[Chris B]

Hey - S -,

I've managed to reproduce this - thank you.

[Old Bruce]

On 11/20/2022 at 7:34 PM, - S - said:

If special characters (such as those below for example) are used in the "States" Panel "Layer name is…" search box and "Regular Expressions" is enabled, it will cause Affinity Photo to crash.

I am a fan of using only Alphanumerics plus the Underscore and Space for names of things and files. I learned this from my old school friend Little Bobby Tables.

 

https://xkcd.com/327/ 

[- S -]

9 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I am a fan of using only Alphanumerics plus the Underscore and Space for names of things and files. I learned this from my old school friend Little Bobby Tables.

https://xkcd.com/327/ 

 

Include commas and quotation marks in your passwords to screw with an attacker's CSV files.   

 

[RogerFx]

Hi I tried and learn about this state panel using the layer name and the regular expression yesterday and this was my experience:

I wrote on the layer name field: Planet+? which would select all layers with names like Planet 1, Planet 2....

It is working for me. No crash.

However, if I write Planet+* it will cause afphoto to crash.