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/resource/ImageRegistry.java
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 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 * 	   Steven Ketcham (sketcham@dsicdi.com) - Bug 42451
 * 			[Dialogs] ImageRegistry throws null pointer exception in 
 * 			application with multiple Display's
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package org.eclipse.jface.resource;
import java.util.*;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog;
import org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
/**
 * An image registry maintains a mapping between symbolic image names 
 * and SWT image objects or special image descriptor objects which
 * defer the creation of SWT image objects until they are needed.
 * <p>
 * An image registry owns all of the image objects registered
 * with it, and automatically disposes of them when the SWT Display
 * that creates the images is disposed. Because of this, clients do not 
 * need to (indeed, must not attempt to) dispose of these images themselves.
 * </p>