Hi Vic, This is definitely an improvemennt. The document is being parsed. The error is in the Java code. That is a lot easier to debug than a combined Java-C error. John On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:48:57AM -0500, Vic Beckley wrote: > Hi John and Brandon, > > I pulled the latest changes this morning and built with Ant. Things are > different now. I still can't open an XML file. BB no longer disappears, > though. After I exit BB, here is the contents of the command prompt window. > > C:\NewDesign\dist>java -jar brailleblaster.jar > C:\Users\Vic\Documents\BrailleBlaster Documents\003 Ezekiel 40-17-31.xml is > opened here > java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) > at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source) > at org.brailleblaster.document.Semantics.compileFile(Unknown Source) > at org.brailleblaster.document.Semantics.makeSemanticsTable(Unknown > Source) > at org.brailleblaster.document.Semantics.makeSemantics(Unknown > Source) > at org.brailleblaster.document.DocumentBase.setupFromFile(Unknown > Source) > at org.brailleblaster.document.DocumentBase.startDocument(Unknown > Source) > at > org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.DocumentManager.openDocument(Unknown > Source) > at > org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.DocumentManager.fileOpenDialog(Unknown > Source) > at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.BBMenu$2.widgetSelected(Unknown > Source) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(Unknown Source) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(Unknown Source) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Unknown Source) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Unknown Source) > at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source) > at org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor.WPManager.<init>(Unknown Source) > at org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Unknown Source) > Main Shell handling Close event, about to dipose the main Display > > C:\NewDesign\dist> > > > Best Regards from Ohio, U.S.A. > > Vic Beckley > E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx > Skype: vbeckley > WLM: vbeckley@xxxxxxxx > > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities