NPE opening a non-project .vm file

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installed latest Veloclipse from
http://propsorter.sourceforge.net/veloeclipse
2. Restarted Eclipse
3. Confirmed that .vm was associated with the Veloclipse editor
4. Dragged a .vm file from Windows Explorer into Eclipse
5. Got error "Could not open the editor: an unexpected exception was thrown."

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: file opens
Instead: This NullPoitnerException-
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at
de.byteaction.velocity.editor.MultiPageEditor.pageChange(MultiPageEditor.java:22
1)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart.setActivePage(MultiPageEditorPart.java:1
076)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart.createPartControl(MultiPageEditorPart.ja
va:361)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPartHelper(EditorReference.java:66
2)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.createPart(EditorReference.java:462)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.ja
va:595)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorReference.getEditor(EditorReference.java:286)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditorBatched(WorkbenchPage.java:2
857)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2762)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$11(WorkbenchPage.java:2754)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$10.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2705)
    at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2701)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2685)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2668)
    at org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.openEditorOnFileStore(IDE.java:1151)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.EditorAreaDropAdapter.asyncDrop(EditorAreaDropAdapte
r.java:136)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.EditorAreaDropAdapter.access$0(EditorAreaDropAdapter
.java:87)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.EditorAreaDropAdapter$1.run(EditorAreaDropAdapter.ja
va:81)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
    at
org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:134)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3885)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3506)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2405)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2369)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2221)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:500)
    at
org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:493)
    at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
    at
org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java
:113)
    at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:194)
    at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(Ecli
pseAppLauncher.java:110)
    at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLau
ncher.java:79)
    at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)
    at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1287)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Eclipse 3.5.2
Veloclipse 2.0.6
Windows 7
JDK 1.6.0_16

Please provide any additional information below.
.vm files open fine when selected within Eclipse from an open project
Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonathan...@gtempaccount.com on 28 Apr 2010 at 1:22
cloudAndMonkey / veloeclipse

NPE opening a non-project .vm file #27
