From 9e592f65dc0f4d7ea6a9d2cb07763b2616ce573d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benny Malengier <benny.malengier@gramps-project.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:48:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix crash on add person in empty person treeview

svn: r16039
---
 src/plugins/view/persontreeview.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/plugins/view/persontreeview.py b/src/plugins/view/persontreeview.py
index 785e0d746..8325179c9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/view/persontreeview.py
+++ b/src/plugins/view/persontreeview.py
@@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ class PersonTreeView(BasePersonView):
         # attempt to get the current surname
         (model, pathlist) = self.selection.get_selected_rows()
         name = gen.lib.Name()
+        #the editor requires a surname
+        name.add_surname(gen.lib.Surname())
+        name.set_primary_surname(0)
         basepers = None
         if len(pathlist) == 1:
             path = pathlist[0]