[nebula-dev] NullPointerException with CDateTime (new in 2.4)

[Matthias Paul Scholz <matthias.paul.scholz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the new release and in particular  the theming support for various widgets!

Sadly, when switching to the 2.4 in our application (without changing any code)  I instantly ran into a NullPointerException  in the CDateTime widget.

Creating a CDateTime with 

new CDateTime(parent, getStyle() | CDT.DROP_DOWN  | CDT.DATE_MEDIUM | CDT.TIME_MEDIUM | CDT.CLOCK_DISCRETE);

(which worked with 2.3) led to 

 java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.nebula.widgets.cdatetime.CDateTime.setBackground(CDateTime.java:2245)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.helpers.CSSSWTColorHelper.setBackground(CSSSWTColorHelper.java:360)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.properties.css2.CSSPropertyBackgroundSWTHandler.applyCSSPropertyBackgroundColor(CSSPropertyBackgroundSWTHandler.java:80)
 
Looks like the picker instance is always null when not using CDT.SIMPLE ...

Best,
  MP