Comment 4 for bug 1224863

Hi,
Thank you for your quick response.
Indeed, the problem happens when we try to click outside the screen.
At the moment, i just catch the exception and the problem is solved.
Best regards
Pierre Dumas

> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:17:30 +0000
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> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 1224863] Re: Null pointer exception raised at click function call
>
> Thanks for finding and evaluating:
>
> The Region class is totally revised in this aspect and strictly
> according to the Java Rectangle rules.
>
> ... means the Region
> Region(SCREEN.w, SCREEN.h, 1, 1)
>
> is one pixel below and one pixel right to the bottom right corner of the
> primary screen and hence outside any screen if there is no screen at
> this coordinates.
>
> A Region must have a width and height both > 0, otherwise it is undefined (the message though for a top left corner on a screen is misleading).
> *** I will fix this the way, that I will produce a sensible error message and as a convenience set the attribute being 0 to 1.
>
> What is inconvenient, that the click on a Region/Location outside any screen leads to a null pointer exception.
> *** I will change this to an exception with a better message.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Null pointer exception raised at click function call
> + [1.0.1] click() on Region/Location outside screen gives Null pointer exception --- should be more explanatory
>
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> Title:
> [1.0.1] click() on Region/Location outside screen gives Null pointer
> exception --- should be more explanatory
>
> Status in Sikuli:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> 1 - Version of SIKULI : X-1.0.1
> 2 - Operating system : Windows XP Pro SP3
> 3 - Procedure to reproduce the bug: The Null Pointer Exception was raised in this line of my code
>
> self.clickFunction_dict[action.lower()](reg)
>
> where:
> self.clickFunction_dict = {"left" : click, "right" : rightClick, "double" : doubleClick}
> action = "left"
> reg is a region object created before.
>
> This function has worked many thousands times before to crash
> yesterday.
>
> 4 - I recently passed to SIKULI X-1.0.1. I never encountered this
> problem with SIKULI X-1.0-rc3.
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