From 6630bcf9fa8e849fe846d1c2b780148a7a2c1e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:08:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] issue #0001999: [STEP] Tessellation data or OpenInventor data
 memory leak

---
 src/Gui/SoFCUnifiedSelection.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Gui/SoFCUnifiedSelection.cpp b/src/Gui/SoFCUnifiedSelection.cpp
index bfb438aa5e67..6297e7621754 100644
--- a/src/Gui/SoFCUnifiedSelection.cpp
+++ b/src/Gui/SoFCUnifiedSelection.cpp
@@ -395,6 +395,11 @@ SoFCUnifiedSelection::handleEvent(SoHandleEventAction * action)
                             currenthighlight = 0;
                             //old_state = !highlighted;
                         }
+                        else if (currenthighlight) {
+                            // clean-up the highlight path before assigning a new path
+                            currenthighlight->unref();
+                            currenthighlight = 0;
+                        }
 
                         currenthighlight = static_cast<SoFullPath*>(sa.getPath()->copy());
                         currenthighlight->ref();