Item identification patch)

Hi Emil, all,
I've done a little more digging and found some interesting
things
about that nasty white window bug. See inline:

> I just checked and I am seeing the exact same behavior
as you describe:
> I first get an empty window and then the updates
succeed. There were no
> exceptions in neither the console nor the log files.
> Personally, I'd bet on another problem with the swing
html renderer.

I don't know if it's necessarily the Swing HTML renderer. As
I told
you off-list, the reason for which I couldn't reproduce the
bug was
that I worked on a rather old version of the code. As soon
as I
updated, the bug appeared with no way whatsoever to
circumvene it.

I started digging through the nightly snapshots archives
until I found
one that worked as supposed. It was
htt
p://sip-communicator.org/download/nightly-builds/src/sip-com
municator-src-1.0-alpha2-nightly.build.721.zip
. It seems something has happened to the code for the
ChatConversationPanel between the 1.8 release which
contained my patch
for correct handling of "text/html" and the latest
release (1.11). For
the moment all I can tell is that simply reverting to an
older version
of the file fixes the issue, but I'm sure that's by no means
an
acceptable solution.

I'll start looking into it and will send a patch as soon as
I'll be
able to fix things.

> I had also noticed a similar problem with the FOSDEM
RSS flow (
> http://fosdem.org/2007
/rss.xml ). It's there with or without the patch
> and it looks a lot worse as it would sometimes even
mess the way the
> chat or history windows look. This one spits an
exception in the logs
> (though judging from how deep in swing it appears I
don't think the
> stacktrace would help a lot)
>
> Here's what the exception looks like:
>
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> >     at
javax.swing.text.FlowView.insertUpdate(FlowView.java:238)
> >     at
javax.swing.text.View.forwardUpdateToView(View.java:1186)
[...]
> I guess the best way to resolve the problem is to
simply experiment and
> try to discover the exact html tags that swing doesn't
like.

It's fixed in the patch I sent a few days ago ;)

All the best,
Mihai

PS: It seems some archives (I couldn't tell how many, I had
problems
with at least 2) here at
http://sip-communicator.org/download/nightly-builds/src/
 are corrupted
(namely 719, 720).

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