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Bug 62584

Summary: Exception when hovering over javadoc
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Michael Fraenkel <fraenkel>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Michael Fraenkel CLA 2004-05-17 23:11:37 EDT
I20040517

If you wait for hover text while over a javadoc section, the following occurs:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.internalGet
(
EclipsePreferences.java)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.EclipsePreferences.get
(EclipseP
references.java)
        at org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.PreferenceForwarder.contains
(Pr
eferenceForwarder.java)
        at 
org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin$CompatibilityPreferenceStore.c
ontains(AbstractUIPlugin.java)
        at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getVisibleStore
(Chai
nedPreferenceStore.java)
        at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ChainedPreferenceStore.getBoolean
(ChainedPr
eferenceStore.java)
        at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.AbstractAnnotationHover.g
etHoverInfo(AbstractAnnotationHover.java:83)
        at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.BestMatchHover.getHoverIn
fo(BestMatchHover.java:102)
        at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.hover.JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.
getHoverInfo(JavaEditorTextHoverProxy.java:69)
        at org.eclipse.jface.text.TextViewerHoverManager$4.run
(TextViewerHoverMa
nager.java:161)
Comment 1 Michael Fraenkel CLA 2004-05-18 00:10:38 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62586 ***