on another machine (also running XUbuntu), copy+paste seems to work, but pressing ESC after successful insertion will instantly crash QCad RC4

same with line tool: sometimes pressing ESC multiple times will instantly crash RC4

This is really weird. The behaviour is in no way reproducible and sometimes occurs even on window-change (ctrl+tab). Normally, I would suspect my local RAM, but it occurs on two independent machines and only with RC4 (not with RC2).

Yes, I am aware of these problems. It's caused by ECMAScripts being interrupted by system events.
These system events (focus in, focus out, mouse click, key press, etc) might trigger C++ or ECMAScript code that for example deletes an object the first script was relying on which leads to crashes.

This is most likely to happen when something is being terminated (e.g. after pressing Escape for tool termination or Ctrl-W for closing).

I've discovered today that switching off the Qt debugger (Preferences - Scripting) at the very least improves (if not fixes) the situation here.

I'd be extremely thankful for feedback of people who can confirm / deny that observation on their systems.

Thanks!

40 minutes without this problem after disabling the debugger. :-) I will report after more testing (will take some time).

Thanks for the report. Looks promising :)

It also starts to make some sense:
Scripts should normally not be interrupted by system events. But the debugger is notified whenever a function starts or ends (even if the debugger window is not shown). The debugger might allow for event processing during those notifications which I would consider to be a Qt bug.

I had some time to do some tests, no "unwanted close" with disabled debugger so far. :-)
I will report after more tests.

After several hours of testing, there was no unwanted close of QCad with disabled debugger. :-)
(should the de-bugger ;-) introduce such a bug?)