[NETBEANS-4743] NPE in design view when displaying menu bar

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 12.0
• Component/s: guibuilder - Code
• Labels: menu

Environment

Java: 14.0.1; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 14.0.1+14
Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 14.0.1+14
System: Mac OS X version 10.15.6 running on x86_64; UTF-8; en_GB (nb)

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Mellor
• Created: 25/Aug/20 22:39
• Updated: 27/Aug/20 20:50

Description

The GUI builder design view fails to render a menu bar

 

steps to reproduce:

 

Click 'File' -> 'New Project' and create a Maven Java application

In the project click 'new' --> 'JFrame Form'

In the form click 'Add From Pallete' -> 'Swing Menues' -> "Menu Bar"

Error displayed:

The following exception has been thrown during painting of the form. Use the Navigator window to fix or remove the problematic component.

java.lang.NullPointerException

 

see attached screenshot