NPE on Windows Netbeans 6.8 when confirming options dialogue

[pengYou]

First click on "ok" in options dialogue has no effect, second one causes below NPE...

SEVERE [global]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.netbeans.core.startup.preferences.NbPreferences.put(NbPreferences.java:131)
at de.whitewashing.php.cs.ui.options.CodeSnifferOptions.setCodingStandard(CodeSnifferOptions.java:49)
at de.whitewashing.php.cs.ui.options.CodeSnifferOptionsPanel.store(CodeSnifferOptionsPanel.java:137)
at de.whitewashing.php.cs.ui.options.CodeSnifferOptionsPanelController.applyChanges(CodeSnifferOptionsPanelController.java:28)
at org.netbeans.modules.options.TabbedController.applyChanges(TabbedController.java:126)
at org.netbeans.modules.options.CategoryModel$Category.applyChanges(CategoryModel.java:384)
at org.netbeans.modules.options.CategoryModel$Category.access$1000(CategoryModel.java:313)
at org.netbeans.modules.options.CategoryModel.save(CategoryModel.java:215)
at org.netbeans.modules.options.OptionsPanel.save(OptionsPanel.java:207)
at org.netbeans.modules.options.OptionsDisplayerImpl$OptionsPanelListener.actionPerformed(OptionsDisplayerImpl.java:331)
at org.netbeans.core.windows.services.NbPresenter$ButtonListener.actionPerformed(NbPresenter.java:1274)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6263)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6028)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4630)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4574)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2475)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
at org.casaburo.utils.textPopupMenu.TCPopupEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TCPopupEventQueue.java:87)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
[catch] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

[tcz]

the same here

[fentie]

I get the same error on OSX 10.6 as well. I can select the phpcs binary but I get the above NPE and the preference doesn't save. The Standards dropdown is empty as well.

[wmhopk]

I got the same thing on OSX 10.6.2 but on XP using the win32 plugin I didn't get this error.

this fixed it for me on OSX 10.6.2

http://github.com/beberlei/netbeans-php-enhancements/issues/#issue/9/comment/247738

or at least it gave me a work a round

[fentie]

I was able to solve this issue (on NB 6.9.1 but I don't think it's version-specific) by adding a symlink to phpcs in /usr/bin (a location on my PATH environment variable). As soon as I did that, NB picked up the phpcs location automatically and populated the coding standards dropdown.

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/bin/phpcs

Your paths may vary from the above; replace the path in the 2nd line with the location of phpcs on your system.