Bug 25973

Summary: Ant View Preference Page cannot be created
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Rafael Chaves <eclipse>
Component: AntAssignee: Platform-Ant-Inbox <platform-ant-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 Keywords: ui
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description Rafael Chaves CLA 2002-11-11 09:46:45 EST
Building: 200211051258

When trying to open the Ant View preference page, an error dialog appears 
explaining that it was not possible to create the preference page.

Stack trace from the log file:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.internal.ant.antview.core.ResourceMgr.getString
(ResourceMgr.java:89)
at 
org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.internal.ant.antview.preferences.PreferencePage.<in
it>(PreferencePage.java:35)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:262)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor.createExecutableExtension
(PluginDescriptor.java:136)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor.createExecutableExtension
(PluginDescriptor.java:165)
at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension
(ConfigurationElement.java:102)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPlugin.createExtension
(WorkbenchPlugin.java:109)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WorkbenchPreferenceNode.createPage
(WorkbenchPreferenceNode.java:43)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.showPage
(PreferenceDialog.java:895)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$7.run
(PreferenceDialog.java:422)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:65)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$6.widgetSelected
(PreferenceDialog.java:414)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.firePostSelectionEvent
(OpenStrategy.java:192)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy.access$4(OpenStrategy.java:187)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.OpenStrategy$3.run(OpenStrategy.java:327)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java
(Compiled Code))
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java
(Compiled Code))
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java(Compiled Code))
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java(Compiled Code))
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java(Compiled Code))
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:541)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run
(OpenPreferencesAction.java:47)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:769)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection
(ActionContributionItem.java:408)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetEvent
(ActionContributionItem.java:362)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$0
(ActionContributionItem.java:353)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$ActionListener.handleEvent
(ActionContributionItem.java:48)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java(Compiled 
Code))
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java(Compiled 
Code))
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java(Compiled 
Code))
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java(Compiled Code))
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1419)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.run(Workbench.java:1402)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run
(InternalBootLoader.java:831)
at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:462)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:247)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:703)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:539)
Comment 1 Darin Swanson CLA 2002-11-11 12:42:12 EST
Workaround: open Ant view before opening ant view preference page

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25759 ***