Re: error

• To: Lourena Rocha <lourena@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: error
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:00:54 -0500 (CDT)

Since the SpreadSheet works so well for so many, this must be
a JBuilder issue. I have no experience with it, so am CC'ing
visad-list.

Please send all questions to visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx rather
than just to me. I don't know everything.

Bill

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Lourena Rocha wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the VisAD source code from the its home page,
> and I've tried to compile it using JBuilder9, but I'm getting the
> following error:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> at visad.ss.SpreadSheet.constructSpreadsheetCells(SpreadSheet.java:2880)
> at visad.ss.SpreadSheet.constructSpreadsheetCells(SpreadSheet.java:2865)
>         at visad.ss.SpreadSheet.<init>(SpreadSheet.java:1175)
> at visad.ss.SpreadSheet.main(SpreadSheet.java:530)
>
> I also got the same error when I tried to compile it as described in the
> Readme. In both ways I'm using the jdk1.4.
>
> I'm very interested in the SpreadSheet, so if you have some insight
> about what is happening, I'd be grateful.

And later, Lourena Rocha wrote:

> I made a mistake when said that I have got that error message at
> compilation time. Actually, the source code compiles and the error
> occurs whenever I try to run the SpreadSheet.