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Bug 321405

Summary:	[usage][sandbox] IllegalArgumentException when preference page is viewed before study is initialized
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Steffen Pingel <steffen.pingel>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4	CC:	shawn.minto
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Steffen Pingel

2010-07-30 17:14:02 EDT

Steps:
1. Disable all workbench startup extensions
2. Start Eclipse
3. Open Usage Data preferences page
 
If the asyncExec() runnable in UiUsageMonitorPlugin has not exectued, yet, the exception below is thrown.


Error
Fri Jul 30 14:09:17 PDT 2010
Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface".

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument cannot be null
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:4064)
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3998)
at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3969)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.error(Widget.java:466)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text.setText(Text.java:2032)
at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.monitor.usage.preferences.UsageDataPreferencePage.createUsageSection(UsageDataPreferencePage.java:233)
at org.eclipse.mylyn.internal.monitor.usage.preferences.UsageDataPreferencePage.createContents(UsageDataPreferencePage.java:116)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferencePage.createControl(PreferencePage.java:232)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.createPageControl(PreferenceDialog.java:1501)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$14.run(PreferenceDialog.java:1258)
...

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2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

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