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OK I don't know what I'm doing. I was working through the How to create a GUI tutorial when I got this error on screen. A java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception has occurred. Please report this at http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html, including a copy of your messages.log file as an attachment. The messages.log file is located in your /Users/Programming/.netbeans/5.5beta2/var/log folder. I have the message log if anyone wants it, but you said don't paste large amounts of text and it is pretty long. So let me know what you want me to do with it.
Created attachment 34412 [details] message.log file
Here is the exception from attachment: ----------------- java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1 at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Container.createHierarchyEvents(Container.java:1335) at java.awt.Dialog.conditionalShow(Dialog.java:450) at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:506) at org.netbeans.core.windows.services.NbPresenter.superShow(NbPresenter.java:816) at org.netbeans.core.windows.services.NbPresenter.doShow(NbPresenter.java:859) at org.netbeans.core.windows.services.NbPresenter.run(NbPresenter.java:847) at org.openide.util.Mutex$1.run(Mutex.java:1194) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:199) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176) [catch] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110) *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 60740 ***
verified duplicate, should be fixed in post beta2 5.5 builds