[RFC] PR 535: null pointer exceptions during applet initialization

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

The attached patch fixes icedtea bug 535 [1]. Some calls to 
showAppletStatus are throwing null pointer exceptions. The problem 
appears to be that the AppletPanel is reparented during initialization 
(see PluginAppletViewer.reFrame()). There is a small window of time 
where the AppletPanel does not have a parent, which causes getParent() 
to return null and cause this NullPointerException.

The attached patch tries to avoid this problem by trying again if it 
detects the parent is null.

Any thoughts or comments?

Cheers,
Omair

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=535
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