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Framework for numerical computations, data analysis and visualisation
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'help window' or 'help layout' will result in crash/endless loop #46

Closed numeredev closed 1 year ago

numeredev commented 1 year ago

DESCRIPTION

Describe the bug Entering help window or help layout will result in an endless loop or a crash. Using the GUI functionalities to open up these articles (search bar, already opened documentation browser), will work perfectly fine.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Enter help window or help layout
  2. See error

Expected behavior The documentation browser opens up and displays the correct article.

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ANALYSIS

Analysis shows that the problem is that the whole documentation is used to initialize the doc browser tabs in case, when the user uses help TOPIC. Changing that to an initial default value like "Loading ..." will resolve the issue.

IMPLEMENTATION STEPS

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