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
setCancelable(cancelable);
		try {
			aboutToRun();
			
			progressMonitor.forked = fork;
			ModalContext.run(runnable, fork, getProgressMonitor(), getShell()
					.getDisplay());
		} finally {
			finishedRun();
		}
	}
	/**
	 * Returns whether the dialog should be opened before the operation is run.
	 * Defaults to <code>true</code>
	 * 
	 * @return <code>true</code> to open the dialog before run,
	 *         <code>false</code> to only create the dialog, but not open it
	 * @since 3.0
	 */
	public boolean getOpenOnRun() {
		return openOnRun;
	}
	/**
	 * Sets whether the dialog should be opened before the operation is run.
	 * NOTE: Setting this to false and not forking a process may starve any
	 * asyncExec that tries to open the dialog later.
	 * 
	 * @param openOnRun
	 *            <code>true</code> to open the dialog before run,
	 *            <code>false</code> to only create the dialog, but not open