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Bug 166994 - NullPointerException at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.parseDisplayName
Summary: NullPointerException at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.parseDisplayName
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Directory Chooser (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: David Simonek
URL: http://statistics.netbeans.org/except...
Keywords: RANDOM
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-06-12 15:01 UTC by elcocolio
Modified: 2009-11-11 06:13 UTC (History)
0 users

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter: 152532

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2009-06-12 15:01 UTC, elcocolio 		Details
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Description elcocolio 2009-06-12 15:01:44 UTC 
Build: NetBeans IDE 6.1 (Build 200804211638)
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 11.2-b01, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_12-b04
OS: Windows XP, 5.1, x86

User Comments:
elcocolio: I was choosing a subversion client (the JFileChooser appeared to select the SVN client home directory, I picked It, and then this happened)



Stacktrace: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.parseDisplayName(Win32ShellFolder2.java:798)
        at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.createShellFolder(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:48)
        at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.createShellFolder(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:42)
        at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.getShellFolder(ShellFolder.java:210)
        at javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.getShellFolder(FileSystemView.java:507)
        at javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.getFiles(FileSystemView.java:431)
Comment 1 elcocolio 2009-06-12 15:01:54 UTC 
Created attachment 83509 [details]
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Comment 2 David Simonek 2009-11-11 06:13:33 UTC 
Bug is random, I never saw it on my machine. I searched a bit and it looks like JDK bug http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4869950. I guess there is not much we can do, unfortunately.