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Bug 63418 - NPE OverlayLayout.preferredLayoutSize when moving component to a JPanel
Summary: NPE OverlayLayout.preferredLayoutSize when moving component to a JPanel
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62958
Alias: None
Product: guibuilder
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Natural Layout (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P1 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@guibuilder
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Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 63381
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Reported: 2005-08-31 12:49 UTC by Max Sauer
Modified: 2005-09-06 10:28 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2005-08-31 12:50 UTC, Max Sauer 		Details
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Description Max Sauer 2005-08-31 12:49:39 UTC 
An endless stream of exceptions until IDE restart is thrown when moving a
component over/to a panel:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at javax.swing.OverlayLayout.preferredLayoutSize(OverlayLayout.java:110)
	at java.awt.Container.preferredSize(Container.java:1558)
	at java.awt.Container.getPreferredSize(Container.java:1543)
...
and some other, see atached stack trace.

Steps to reproduce:
-------------------
1) Open/create a project
2) Add a JFrame form to the project
3) Add a JPanel
4) Add a component (button, textfield..) to the JFrame outside of teh panel
5) Drag the componet to the JPanel
--> exception stream

[200508301800, JDK 1.5.0_05 b03, solaris 10/sparc]
Comment 1 Max Sauer 2005-08-31 12:50:15 UTC 
Created attachment 24407 [details]
exceptions stack traces
Comment 2 Max Sauer 2005-08-31 12:52:30 UTC 
q-build stopper.
Comment 3 Tomas Pavek 2005-08-31 15:59:57 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 62958 ***
Comment 4 Max Sauer 2005-09-06 10:28:01 UTC 
Verified duplicate.