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Bug 468218

Summary: Internal Error: Neither parent nor controlToCheck must be null
Product: [Tools] Oomph Reporter: Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component: SetupAssignee: Eike Stepper <stepper>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows NT   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 459836    

Description Wayne Beaton CLA 2015-05-25 15:52:26 EDT
I'm getting this error when I attempt to run the installer (downloaded today) on Windows 8. Updating results in a different error; I'll open a separate bug for that.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Neither parent nor controlToCheck must be null
	at org.eclipse.oomph.ui.UIUtil.isParent(UIUtil.java:169)
	at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.SimpleInstallerMenu.closeMenu(SimpleInstallerMenu.java:311)
	at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.SimpleInstallerMenu.handleEvent(SimpleInstallerMenu.java:276)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.filterEvent(Display.java:1266)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1112)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1137)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1122)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:788)
	at org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleFrame$2.run(OleFrame.java:157)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runTimer(Display.java:4281)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.messageProc(Display.java:3368)
	at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessageW(Native Method)
	at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(OS.java:2549)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3767)
	at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.AbstractSimpleDialog.show(AbstractSimpleDialog.java:114)
	at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.InstallerApplication.run(InstallerApplication.java:215)
	at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.internal.installer.InstallerApplication.start(InstallerApplication.java:271)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:380)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:235)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:669)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:608)
	at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1515)
Comment 1 Eike Stepper CLA 2015-06-03 00:50:11 EDT
As of 2015-05-27 this is fixed in master: 204f6c6a23ec279ca79a08b70d9e914740dc17ff