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This issue was reported manually by alexvsimon. It already has 1 duplicates Build: NetBeans IDE 8.0 (Build 201403101706) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 23.7-b01, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.7.0_17-b02 OS: Windows 8 User Comments: GUEST: Creating a Toolchain for the SDCC https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/cnd/toolchain.html#create step 19 made the excpetion Stacktrace: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.toolchain.ui.options.ToolsPanel.areToolsOptionsChanged(ToolsPanel.java:265) at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.toolchain.ui.options.ToolsPanel.access$400(ToolsPanel.java:107) at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.toolchain.ui.options.ToolsPanel$7.run(ToolsPanel.java:1237) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:251) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:727) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
Created attachment 146544 [details] stacktrace
The error is in custom layer.xml file. One of "originalFile" attribute point on non-existing file. There is no error in original how to: https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/cnd/toolchain.html#create It works.
fixed, change set: http://hg.netbeans.org/cnd-main/rev/5927f08804e0
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201404050001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/5927f08804e0 User: Alexander Simon <alexvsimon@netbeans.org> Log: fixed Bug #243555 NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.toolchain.ui.options.ToolsPanel.areToolsOptionsChanged
Integrated into 'releases/release80', will be available in build *201404240045* or newer. Wait for official and publicly available build. Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/rev/13eadba74876 User: Alexander Simon <alexvsimon@netbeans.org> Log: fixed Bug #243555 NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.toolchain.ui.options.ToolsPanel.areToolsOptionsChanged (transplanted from 5927f08804e08cdf15ccaba4b75ea5b9ded239ba)
*** Bug 249454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***