From dd83f0b6dc9d9e6f261604b5ac06b9bbb0514508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikita Tsukanov <keks9n@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 22:12:47 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Temporary fix for that weird crash

---
 src/Gtk/Perspex.Cairo/Media/FormattedTextImpl.cs | 2 +-
 src/Perspex.SceneGraph/Media/FormattedText.cs    | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Gtk/Perspex.Cairo/Media/FormattedTextImpl.cs b/src/Gtk/Perspex.Cairo/Media/FormattedTextImpl.cs
index 160e6e04b4..4a4ec5002a 100644
--- a/src/Gtk/Perspex.Cairo/Media/FormattedTextImpl.cs
+++ b/src/Gtk/Perspex.Cairo/Media/FormattedTextImpl.cs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ namespace Perspex.Cairo.Media
             FontWeight fontWeight)
         {
             Contract.Requires<NullReferenceException>(context != null);
-
+            Contract.Requires<NullReferenceException> (text != null);
             Layout = new Pango.Layout(context);
             _text = text;
             Layout.SetText(text);
diff --git a/src/Perspex.SceneGraph/Media/FormattedText.cs b/src/Perspex.SceneGraph/Media/FormattedText.cs
index b8e8c5ddee..f5f390c609 100644
--- a/src/Perspex.SceneGraph/Media/FormattedText.cs
+++ b/src/Perspex.SceneGraph/Media/FormattedText.cs
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ namespace Perspex.Media
             TextAlignment textAlignment,
             FontWeight fontWeight)
         {
+            //TODO: Find out why it was null in the first place. Demo project - AvalonStudio
+            //https://github.com/VitalElement/AvalonStudio/commit/787fb9396feb74e6ca6bd4e08436269a349df9c6
+            text = text ?? "";
             Text = text;
             FontFamilyName = fontFamilyName;
             FontSize = fontSize;