From ce25d51763e1d6d9ba10074c25fefd44723b1694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Koefferlein <matthias@koefferlein.de>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 01:41:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] WIP: refactoring ongoing.

---
 src/laybasic/laybasic/layAbstractMenu.cc | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/laybasic/laybasic/layAbstractMenu.cc b/src/laybasic/laybasic/layAbstractMenu.cc
index 5c63d1d24..33b5c9e54 100644
--- a/src/laybasic/laybasic/layAbstractMenu.cc
+++ b/src/laybasic/laybasic/layAbstractMenu.cc
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ AbstractMenu::create_action (const std::string &s, lay::Dispatcher *dispatcher)
 
   parse_menu_title (s, title, shortcut, res, tool_tip);
 
-  ActionHandle *ah = new ActionHandle (dispatcher->menu_parent_widget ());
+  ActionHandle *ah = new ActionHandle (dispatcher ? dispatcher->menu_parent_widget () : 0);
   ah->ptr ()->setText (tl::to_qstring (title));
 
   if (! tool_tip.empty ()) {
@@ -1613,7 +1613,11 @@ AbstractMenu::find_item (tl::Extractor &extr)
       std::string n;
       extr.read (n, ".+>(");
 
-      if (n == "begin") {
+      if (n.empty ()) {
+
+        //  skip (avoids infinite loops on wrong paths)
+
+      } else if (n == "begin") {
 
         iter = parent->children.begin ();