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/ErrorDialog.java
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	private static final String NESTING_INDENT = "  "; 
	/**
	 * The Details button.
	 */
	private Button detailsButton;
	/**
	 * The title of the dialog.
	 */
	private String title;
	/**
	 * The SWT list control that displays the error details.
	 */
	private List list;
	/**
	 * Indicates whether the error details viewer is currently created.
	 */
	private boolean listCreated = false;
	/**
	 * Filter mask for determining which status items to display.
	 */
	private int displayMask = 0xFFFF;
	/**
	 * The main status object.
	 */
	private IStatus status;
	/**
	 * The current clipboard. To be disposed when closing the dialog.
	 */
	private Clipboard clipboard;