JDK 7 Mac Port Preview b217 Available

[Frank-Robert Kline]

This was actually only one out of a handful of macs I've tested that showed
this issue; however it's immediately showstopping when it appears as you
can't start a gui app.

Thanks for the link to the older issue, missed that when searching.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I filed a bug about this as well.. months ago (July 30th, 2011).
>
> http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-203
>
> Glad to see that at least one person can reproduce it.  I just don't
> understand how anyone can be testing all the AquaUI porting stuff on a
> daily basis when you can't even run a GUI app!
>
> Scott
>
> On 2011-11-10, at 7:59 PM, Frank-Robert Kline wrote:
>
> I just filed a bug on this - would probably be helpful if you added your
> system information as well:
> http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-688
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2011-11-09, at 6:38 PM, Roger Yeung wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The JDK 7 Mac Port Preview b217 is now available:
>> >
>> >   http://jdk7.java.net/macportpreview/
>> >
>> >
>> > This is the first build with Lion (10.7).
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Roger Y.
>>
>> i'll ask again… Am I the only one that can't get any GUI code to work
>> with these builds?
>> This and OpenJDK7 fails 100% of the time if you try to launch any Java
>> app with a GUI.
>>
>> Here's a sample stack trace:
>>
>> Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
>>        at java.awt.Window.initGC(Window.java:464)
>>        at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:484)
>>        at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:533)
>>        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:418)
>>        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:383)
>>        at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:180)
>>        at
>> ca.digitalrapids.kayak.gui.KayakDesignerFrame.<init>(KayakDesignerFrame.java:33)
>>        at
>> ca.digitalrapids.kayak.gui.KayakGUIUtils._createKayakDesignerFrame(KayakGUIUtils.java:96)
>>        at
>> ca.digitalrapids.kayak.gui.KayakGUIUtils.createKayakDesignerFrame(KayakGUIUtils.java:145)
>>        at ca.digitalrapids.kayak.KayakMain$1.run(KayakMain.java:63)
>>        at
>> java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:251)
>>        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:705)
>>        at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:101)
>>        at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:666)
>>        at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:664)
>>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>        at
>> java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
>>        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:675)
>>        at
>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:240)
>>        at
>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
>>        at
>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
>>        at
>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:142)
>>        at
>> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:134)
>>        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
>>
>>
>> This has been an issue for months and I don't get why I don't hear
>> anything about it from others.  My system isn't "special" in any way.
>>
>> I don't hear about it in any release notes or anything… what's up?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
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