Bug 61743 NPE in MessageDialog with null parent shell
I-build 2004-05-11 I have code that does the following: MessageDialog.openInformation(null, "Showing element", "Showning an integer of value: "+((Integer)match.getElement()).intValue()); This leads to a null pointer with the follwing stack trace: Thread [main] (Suspended (exception NullPointerException)) MessageDialog.<init>(Shell, String, Image, String, int, String[], int) line: 126 MessageDialog.openInformation(Shell, String, String) line: 305 TestUIParticipant.showMatch(Match, int, int, boolean) line: 57 JavaSearchResultPage.showMatch(Match, int, int, boolean) line: 153 AbstractTextSearchViewPage$9.run() line: 723 <snip> The API doc for MessageDialog say that I'm allowed to pass in null for the parent shell.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/dialogs/MessageDialog.java
*         <code>false</code> otherwise
	 */
	public static boolean openConfirm(Shell parent, String title, String message) {
		MessageDialog dialog = new MessageDialog(parent, title, null, 
				
				
				
				
				message, QUESTION, new String[]{IDialogConstants.OK_LABEL,
						IDialogConstants.CANCEL_LABEL}, 0); 
		
		return dialog.open() == 0;
	}
	/**
	 * Convenience method to open a standard error dialog.
	 * 
	 * @param parent
	 *            the parent shell of the dialog, or <code>null</code> if none
	 * @param title
	 *            the dialog's title, or <code>null</code> if none
	 * @param message
	 *            the message
	 */
	public static void openError(Shell parent, String title, String message) {
		MessageDialog dialog = new MessageDialog(parent, title, null, 
				
				
				
				
				message, ERROR, new String[]{IDialogConstants.OK_LABEL}, 0);