From 3a2d44bd12a2e9d50ec36ee8cc689c6fb38c5301 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Matthias=20K=C3=B6fferlein?= <matthias@koefferlein.de>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 22:14:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #1081 (#1084)

---
 src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc b/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc
index e1690b121..f6dc15a82 100644
--- a/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc
+++ b/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc
@@ -2046,6 +2046,10 @@ MainWindow::cm_load_layer_props ()
 void
 MainWindow::load_layer_props_from_file (const std::string &fn)
 {
+  if (! current_view ()) {
+    throw tl::Exception (tl::to_string (QObject::tr ("No view open to load the layer properties for")));
+  }
+
   int target_cv_index = -2;
 
   if (current_view ()->cellviews () > 1 && is_single_cv_layer_properties_file (fn)) {