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Bug 86622 - using F1 help when nothing is selected in palette window throws NPE
Summary: using F1 help when nothing is selected in palette window throws NPE
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86340
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Palette (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Stanislav Aubrecht
URL:
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-10-05 23:55 UTC by Quy Nguyen
Modified: 2008-12-22 18:00 UTC (History)
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Description Quy Nguyen 2006-10-05 23:55:20 UTC 
Pressing F1 to open the help window when the palette is selected (but no
categories or items selected) throws a NullPointerException.  This is using 5.5
RC1.  The stacktrace is included below.

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.netbeans.modules.palette.ui.PalettePanel.getHelpCtx(PalettePanel.java:393)
	at
org.netbeans.spi.palette.PaletteTopComponent.getHelpCtx(PaletteTopComponent.java:129)
	at org.openide.util.HelpCtx.findHelp(HelpCtx.java:172)
	at org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.HelpAction.findHelpCtx(HelpAction.java:102)
	at org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.HelpAction.actionPerformed(HelpAction.java:144)
	at org.openide.windows.TopComponent.processKeyBinding(TopComponent.java:880)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindings(JComponent.java:2870)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(JComponent.java:2787)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5776)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1984)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4407)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2042)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4237)
	at java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.redispatchEvent(KeyboardFocusManager.java:1828)
	at
java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchKeyEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:693)
	at
java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.preDispatchKeyEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:952)
	at
java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.typeAheadAssertions(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:824)
	at
java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:657)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4279)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2042)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2405)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4237)
[catch] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:600)
	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
	at
java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)
Comment 1 Stanislav Aubrecht 2006-10-06 08:24:23 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 86340 ***
Comment 2 Marian Mirilovic 2006-10-06 09:27:13 UTC 
verified duplicate