Bug 62612 NPE in EclipsePreferences.internalGet(...)
I200405171219 + ZRH smoke plugin-export 20040518_1115 After start and shutdown of the Buildmeister runtime I found the following exception. It looks like getTextPreferenceKey() in AbstractAnnotationHover#getHoverInfo() at line 83 returned null. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.internalGet(EclipsePreferences.java:479) at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.get(EclipsePreferences.java:349) at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.PreferenceForwarder.contains(PreferenceForwarder.java:181) at org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin$CompatibilityPreferenceStore.contains(AbstractUIPlugin.java:277) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getVisibleStore(ChainedPreferenceStore.java:525) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getBoolean(ChainedPreferenceStore.java:166) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.AbstractAnnotationHover.getHoverInfo(AbstractAnnotationHover.java:83) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.BestMatchHover.getHoverInfo(BestMatchHover.java:102) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.getHoverInfo(JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.java:69) at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager$4.run(TextViewerHoverManager.java:161)
org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/javaeditor/JavaEditor.java
* 
	 * @param msg message to be set
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	protected void setStatusLineMessage(String msg) {
		IEditorStatusLine statusLine= (IEditorStatusLine) getAdapter(IEditorStatusLine.class);
		if (statusLine != null)
			statusLine.setMessage(false, msg, null);	
	}
	
	/**
	 * Returns the signed current selection.
	 * The length will be negative if the resulting selection
	 * is right-to-left (RtoL).
	 * <p>
	 * The selection offset is model based.
	 * </p>
	 * 
	 * @param sourceViewer the source viewer
	 * @return a region denoting the current signed selection, for a resulting RtoL selections length is < 0 
	 */
	protected IRegion getSignedSelection(ISourceViewer sourceViewer) {
		StyledText text= sourceViewer.getTextWidget();
		Point selection= text.getSelectionRange();
		
		if (text.getCaretOffset() == selection.x) {
			selection.x= selection.x + selection.y;
			selection.y= -selection.y;
		}