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Build Identifier: 20100917-0705 The wizard that creates a new formatting specification is broken - it cannot be run, as it throws a null-pointer exception right after the start, and the contents of the page is not rendered. I observed this behaviour on both Eclipse 3.5 and 3.6, and using both the latest (IMP v0.1.v201008201835 (20 Aug 2010)) and prior release from the update site (IMP v0.1.v201004212015 (21 Apr 2010)). I will submit a stack trace as an attachment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an IMP-based editor with grammar 2. Try to create a Box-based formatting specification in the New... wizard 3. Observe, that the wizard page cannot be created because of a nullpointer exception
Created attachment 181051 [details] A log stating that no wizard page can be created. The first exception in the error log states that an NPE was thrown during the creation of a wizard page.
Created attachment 181052 [details] The detailed, IMP-specific exception trace The exception trace using IMP-specific code. It was submitted as a separate exception in the error log (not a hierarchic trace).
After looking into the mentioned code, I found, that the NPE is thrown at the following line: createDescriptionText(container, fSchema.getDescription()); At that point fSchema is null. After some debugging, I found that fSchema is initialized in the constructor, after looking for an extension point called "formattingSpecification" in the plug-in "org.eclipse.imp.metatooling". The metatooling plug-in does not define any extension points at all, and I did not find any extension point called "formattingSpecification", just an "org.eclipse.imp.formattingSpecification" in the "org.eclipse.imp.formatting" plug-in.
Created attachment 181054 [details] A patch for the 0.1.91 version A simple modification of the metatooling plug-in (v0.1.91) code to use the correct plug-in ID.
Sorry for the comment spam - but I checked, that the same patch can be used in the trunk version as well (0.2.1). I think, it would be nice to provide a fixed release from the 0.1 series as well as fixing the 0.2 series.
