Jabref: Small issues regarding the new style selection dialog for LibreOffice

[teertinker]

JabRef version 3.3 on Ubuntu 14.04

The new style dialog is beautiful, thank you very much!

What I miss from before is:

a) a file-filter, allowing to show only *.jstyle files in the window on the far right.
b) in case other users store the style files in one folder: that jabref remembers the folder selected the last time and one does not need to go through all the folders again

a further, real minor, issue might be the option to show the file definition.

• if you right click on the left window (choose style), there is the option to "show" the file definition.
  -> the content should be refreshed as this click is triggered, because if there are file modifications between adding a new style and refreshing the bibliography, the file shown, is not the one saved on the hard drive and used to compile the list of references.

[Siedlerchr]

I will look into that. @oscargus You can assign this to me

[Siedlerchr]

@teertinker Would you please test it with one of the current master snapshots? If all is okay, then we can close this. http://builds.jabref.org/master/
Code has been merged a few days ago.

[teertinker]

Checked with current master:
I am not able to open the "choose style" dialog anymore. The following exceptions seems to be raised:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at net.sf.jabref.logic.openoffice.OOBibStyle.compareTo(OOBibStyle.java:885)
    at net.sf.jabref.logic.openoffice.OOBibStyle.compareTo(OOBibStyle.java:68)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.impl.sort.ComparableComparator.compare(ComparableComparator.java:27)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.impl.sort.ComparableComparator.compare(ComparableComparator.java:18)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.SortedList$ElementComparator.compare(SortedList.java:647)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.impl.adt.barcode2.SimpleTree.insertIntoSubtreeInSortedOrder(SimpleTree.java:353)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.impl.adt.barcode2.SimpleTree.addInSortedOrder(SimpleTree.java:324)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.SortedList.insertByUnsortedNode(SortedList.java:368)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.SortedList.listChanged(SortedList.java:352)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.event.ListEventAssembler$ListEventFormat.fire(ListEventAssembler.java:424)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.event.ListEventAssembler$ListEventFormat.fire(ListEventAssembler.java:421)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.event.SequenceDependenciesEventPublisher$SubjectAndListener.firePendingEvent(SequenceDependenciesEventPublisher.java:445)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.event.SequenceDependenciesEventPublisher.fireEvent(SequenceDependenciesEventPublisher.java:344)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.event.ListEventAssembler.commitEvent(ListEventAssembler.java:317)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.BasicEventList.addAll(BasicEventList.java:167)
    at ca.odell.glazedlists.BasicEventList.addAll(BasicEventList.java:149)
    at net.sf.jabref.gui.openoffice.StyleSelectDialog.updateStyles(StyleSelectDialog.java:316)
    at net.sf.jabref.gui.openoffice.StyleSelectDialog.init(StyleSelectDialog.java:153)
    at net.sf.jabref.gui.openoffice.StyleSelectDialog.<init>(StyleSelectDialog.java:123)
    at net.sf.jabref.gui.openoffice.OpenOfficePanel.lambda$initPanel$5(OpenOfficePanel.java:186)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
    at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6535)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6300)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2236)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4891)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2294)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4713)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4888)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4525)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4466)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2280)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2750)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4713)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:86)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

[Siedlerchr]

Hm, I will check it again. This is weird as I already took care of it in the PR.
This could happen when you selected an invalid style file (e.g. another file).
Could you please check the style file you have selected and maybe upload it here?

[teertinker]

I was not able to open the dialog to choose a style: Nothing happens after clicking on "Stil wählen" .

OK: The problem was my fault. I used the following jstyle file:
campus_format english.txt

with this file stored in my settings, it doesn't work in 3.3 either

-> The style file seems to have problems on my linux machine with encoding. The tricky thing is, I used notepad++ to change encoding the last time on my windows machine, because the list of references was somehow not parsed properly.

[teertinker]

This means: the features implemented work properly now! Thanks.

[Siedlerchr]

@teertinker Okay. I also added a check which prevents wrong style files from being saved. That should solve the problem with being not able to open the stye dialog. So please try selecting the "invalid/wrong" file in the style dialog. And have a look in the Error Log then, at one point there should be a Log message about an invalid style

[teertinker]

I tried the master http://builds.jabref.org/master/JabRef-3.4dev--snapshot--2016-05-02--master--abb1f56.jar build at 13:41
the behavior remains the same with an incorrect style file:

• dialog to choose styles cannot be opened
• an exception is raised (as can be seen in the exceptions section of the console)
• the protocol section has no information about a wrong style file.

[Siedlerchr]

I will look into that further. I think the only cased I probably missed is when reading the settings.

[Siedlerchr]

@teertinker The fix just got merged and will be avaiable in one of the next snapshots build on master.