NullPointerException in CodeSwarmConfig.stringToColor

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. ant run
2. entered my svn repository url
3. sat and watched

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected: a nice visualization :)

Saw:

[java] Exception in thread "Animation Thread" 
java.lang.NullPointerException
[java]     at CodeSwarmConfig.stringToColor(CodeSwarmConfig.java:253)
[java]     at CodeSwarmConfig.getColorProperty(CodeSwarmConfig.java:161)
[java]     at code_swarm.setup(code_swarm.java:210)
[java]     at processing.core.PApplet.handleDraw(PApplet.java:1372)
[java]     at processing.core.PApplet.run(PApplet.java:1300)
[java]     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Not sure how to find a version number for this thing. I used:

rictic-code_swarm-f61cb18011dcbceb8bb3b9970899c16eebec91ce.zip

Windows XP SP3

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by benhau...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2009 at 1:16

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ah, in the current version in the git repository, the ant run method hasn't 
seen much
love lately.

To help me debug, would you mind trying the following?

1. add code_swarm/bin to your PATH:  cd path/to/code_swarm/bin; export 
PATH=$PATH:`pwd` 
2. checkout your svn project (skip this if you've already got it checked out on 
your
machine)
3. cd your_project
4. code_swarm

That should download the project's history and display the visualization for it 
all
in one step.  If that works, then the problem is in the ant run path has a bug 
in it.

Original comment by ric...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2009 at 5:14

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I can confirm it works when I run from the command line. I'm on Windows (and 
the 
above instructions don't seem to work for me) so I actually typed:

C:\code_swarm\run

Original comment by benhau...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2009 at 6:05