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
layout.marginHeight = convertVerticalDLUsToPixels(IDialogConstants.VERTICAL_MARGIN);
		layout.marginWidth = convertHorizontalDLUsToPixels(IDialogConstants.HORIZONTAL_MARGIN);
		layout.verticalSpacing = convertVerticalDLUsToPixels(IDialogConstants.VERTICAL_SPACING);
		layout.horizontalSpacing = convertHorizontalDLUsToPixels(IDialogConstants.HORIZONTAL_SPACING);
		layout.numColumns = 2;
		composite.setLayout(layout);
		GridData childData = new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH);
		childData.horizontalSpan = 2;
		composite.setLayoutData(childData);
		composite.setFont(parent.getFont());
		return composite;
	}
	/*
	 * @see IconAndMessageDialog#createDialogAndButtonArea(Composite)
	 */
	protected void createDialogAndButtonArea(Composite parent) {
		super.createDialogAndButtonArea(parent);
		if (this.dialogArea instanceof Composite) {
			
			Composite dialogComposite = (Composite) dialogArea;
			if (dialogComposite.getChildren().length == 0)
				new Label(dialogComposite, SWT.NULL);
		}
	}
	/*
	 * @see IconAndMessageDialog#getImage()
	 */
	protected Image getImage() {
		if (status != null) {
			if (status.getSeverity() == IStatus.WARNING)