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Bug 32933 - Help does not work
Summary: Help does not work
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Help System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P1 blocker (vote)
Assignee: _ tboudreau
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-04-16 06:31 UTC by kovica
Modified: 2008-12-22 18:39 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:

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2003-04-16 06:45 UTC, kovica 		Details
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Description kovica 2003-04-16 06:31:46 UTC 
Help (Help - Contents and Help - Help Sets - *)
does not work in NB 3.5 Beta. It throws
NullPointerException in editor.

I've also attached my ide.log
Comment 1 kovica 2003-04-16 06:45:25 UTC 
Created attachment 9965 [details]
ide.log
Comment 2 Martin Roskanin 2003-04-16 08:30:53 UTC 
Reassigning to core/javahelp.
Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2003-04-16 10:22:14 UTC 
Can't reproduce with NB 3.5 Beta on Windows NT.

Gregor, it's obvious from the log file that you have a number of
additional modules installed. To avoid any potential interference with
those modules, could you please try to reproduce the problem with a
clean userdir? Just start the IDE with the -userdir <empty-folder>
parameter.

Also, are you using the standard look and feel?
Comment 4 _ tboudreau 2003-04-16 14:25:16 UTC 
This very much looks like the look and feel is not providing
component UIs for JavaHelp components (making this a JavaHelp vs.
L&F issue, not a NetBeans issue).

Note we've recently had one bug in JavaHelp where it was abusing
values from UIDefaults.  It wouldn't surprise me if there were
others.

We might be able to work around it by adding items to the defaults
table if that is the case.

Gregor, to do anything with this I need the information Honza
requested.  As this is a P1 issue, please let me know ASAP.
Comment 5 kovica 2003-04-17 06:08:39 UTC 
You are right. I installed Plastic Look&Feel that was released few
days ago.
After deleting that from my ide.log Help started to work.

so I'm closing this.
Comment 6 _ tboudreau 2003-04-17 10:47:19 UTC 
FWIW, this does look like a bug in JavaHelp - it assumes that
its UI classes will be available from UIManager.  It should
check what it gets from UIManager for null, and fall back to 
some reasonable value in the case of null.