On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 08:43:47 GMT, Florian Kirmaier <fkirma...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> It's "a bit" complicated.
>> In some situations, getRuns get's called because listeners on bounds are set.
>> This causes TextFlow to layout to compute the runs.
>> Afterward, the bounds of the parents get updated. 
>> This triggers a call to compute bounds - which cascades up to the children.
>> When the geometry of the previous Text gets computed in this big stack - it 
>> throws an nullpointer.
>> The Text doesn't have its runs, and calling TextFlow.layout is now a noop 
>> (it detects repeated calls in the same stack)
>> 
>> In the case it happened - it didn't repair and the application kinda crashed.
>> This bug most likely can also be triggered by ScenicView or similar tools, 
>> which sets listeners to the bounds.
>> It also can cause unpredictable performance issues.
>> 
>> Unit test and example stacktrace are in the ticket.
>> 
>> The suggested fix makes sure that recomputing the geometry of the Text, 
>> doesn't trigger the layout of the TextFlow. 
>> The Textflow should be layouting by the Parent.
>> This might change the behavior in some cases, but as far as I've tested it 
>> works without issues in TextFlow Heavy applications.
>> 
>> Benefits:
>>  * Better Tooling Support For ScenicView etc.
>>  * Fixes complicated but reproducible crashes
>>  * Might fix some rare crashes, which are hard to reproduce
>>  * Likely improves performance - might fix some edge cases with 
>> unpredictable bad performance
>
> Florian Kirmaier has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains five additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origjfx/master' into JDK-8269921-textflow-bug
>  - JDK-8269921
>    Reverted the change to the layout, so we can fix the main-bug without 
> further discussions.
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origjfx/master' into JDK-8269921-textflow-bug
>  - JDK-8269921
>    Added a copyright header
>  - JDK-8269921
>    Fixing a crash related to Text and TextFlow with bounds listeners

tests/system/src/test/java/test/javafx/scene/text/TextFlowCrashTest.java line 
27:

> 25: package test.javafx.scene.text;
> 26: 
> 27: import org.junit.BeforeClass;

Can you update this class to use JUnit5?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/564#discussion_r1375159882

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