RFR: 8373847: Test javax/swing/JMenuItem/MenuItemTest/bug6197830.java failed because The test case automatically fails when clicking any items in the “Nothing” menu in all four windows (Left-to-right)-Menu Item Test and (Right-to-left)-Menu Item Test

[Damon Nguyen]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:32:15 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When user selects any menu item from "No nothing". the following exception happens because PassFailJFrame logArea is not created
> 
> java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "javax.swing.JTextArea.append(String)" because "PassFailJFrame.logArea" is null
> at PassFailJFrame.lambda$log$0(PassFailJFrame.java:1353)
> at PassFailJFrame.invokeOnEDT(PassFailJFrame.java:570)
> at PassFailJFrame.invokeOnEDTUncheckedException(PassFailJFrame.java:584)
> at PassFailJFrame.log(PassFailJFrame.java:1353)
> at MenuItemTestHelper.lambda$createNoNothingMenu$0(MenuItemTestHelper.java:118) 
> 
> 
> Fix is to create log area

Marked as reviewed by dnguyen (Committer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28887#pullrequestreview-3609702749