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/ProgressMonitorDialog.java
/**
	 * Internal progress monitor implementation.
	 */
	private class ProgressMonitor implements IProgressMonitorWithBlocking {
		private String fSubTask = "";
		private boolean fIsCanceled;
		protected boolean forked = false;
		protected boolean locked = false;
		public void beginTask(String name, int totalWork) {
			if (progressIndicator.isDisposed())
				return;
			if (name == null)
				task = "";
			else
				task = name;
			String s = task;
			if (s.length() <= 0)
				s = DEFAULT_TASKNAME;
			setMessage(s);
			if (!forked)
				update();
			if (totalWork == UNKNOWN) {
				progressIndicator.beginAnimatedTask();
			} else {
				progressIndicator.beginTask(totalWork);
			}
		}
		public void done() {
			if (!progressIndicator.isDisposed()) {
				progressIndicator.sendRemainingWork();