From e6061ff96ff5eea3f12e2d0eb6ef568e7e05e0a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Koefferlein <matthias@koefferlein.de>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 18:39:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CONSIDER MERGING: avoid a segfault due to early delete of a
 LayoutView object

---
 src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc b/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc
index d632ce26a..68b420586 100644
--- a/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc
+++ b/src/lay/lay/layMainWindow.cc
@@ -2876,7 +2876,9 @@ MainWindow::close_view (int index)
 
       view_closed_event (int (index));
 
-      delete view (index);
+      //  delete the view later as it may still be needed by event handlers or similar
+      std::unique_ptr<lay::LayoutView> old_view (view (index));
+
       mp_views.erase (mp_views.begin () + index, mp_views.begin () + index + 1);
 
       if (index >= int (mp_views.size ())) {