I decided to add a few more tabs to keep organized, but now if I go to the second tab page I crash.

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java.lang.NullPointerException: Rendering screen
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderItem.renderItemOverlayIntoGUI(RenderItem.java:429)
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderItem.renderItemOverlays(RenderItem.java:399)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainerCreative.drawTab(GuiContainerCreative.java:925)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainerCreative.drawGuiContainerBackgroundLayer(GuiContainerCreative.java:749)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainer.drawScreen(GuiContainer.java:94)
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.InventoryEffectRenderer.drawScreen(InventoryEffectRenderer.java:59)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainerCreative.drawScreen(GuiContainerCreative.java:634)
	at net.minecraftforge.client.ForgeHooksClient.drawScreen(ForgeHooksClient.java:382)
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.EntityRenderer.updateCameraAndRender(EntityRenderer.java:1147)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.runGameLoop(Minecraft.java:1139)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:406)
	at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:118)
	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 net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:135)
	at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28)
	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 net.minecraftforge.gradle.GradleStartCommon.launch(GradleStartCommon.java:97)
	at GradleStart.main(GradleStart.java:26)


A detailed walkthrough of the error, its code path and all known details is as follows:
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Thread: Client thread
Stacktrace:
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderItem.renderItemOverlayIntoGUI(RenderItem.java:429)
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.RenderItem.renderItemOverlays(RenderItem.java:399)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainerCreative.drawTab(GuiContainerCreative.java:925)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainerCreative.drawGuiContainerBackgroundLayer(GuiContainerCreative.java:749)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainer.drawScreen(GuiContainer.java:94)
	at net.minecraft.client.renderer.InventoryEffectRenderer.drawScreen(InventoryEffectRenderer.java:59)
	at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainerCreative.drawScreen(GuiContainerCreative.java:634)
	at net.minecraftforge.client.ForgeHooksClient.drawScreen(ForgeHooksClient.java:382)

 

The Tab class is as follows

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package keegan.labstuff.common;


import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.item.*;

public class TabLabStuff extends CreativeTabs {

	
	private Item tab;
	private String name;
	
	public TabLabStuff(String label, Item tab, String name) {
		super(label);
		this.tab = tab;
		this.name = name;
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
	}
	
	@Override
	public Item getTabIconItem()
	{
		
		return tab;
	}
	
	@Override
	public ItemStack getIconItemStack()
	{
		return new ItemStack(tab);
	}
	
	@Override
	public String getTranslatedTabLabel()
	{
		
		return name;
		
	}
}

 

 

And the items are not null I can spawn them in and toss them around and all that jazz so IDK

 

 

Edited February 24, 20178 yr by KeeganDeathman

38 minutes ago, KeeganDeathman said:

And the items are not null I can spawn them in and toss them around and all that jazz so IDK

Just because they're not null when you open up a save game and toss them around doesn't mean they aren't null when you initialize your creative tab.

 

Item myItem;
Tab myTab;

preInit() {
	myTab = new Tab(myItem);
	myItem = new Item();
}

In the above (heavily simplified) code, myTab is initialized with a null item.  Why because it hasn't been created yet even though the item itself exists later and you can pick it up and toss it, the tab's item is still null.

Line 429 of RenderItem is the following:

 if (stack.getItem().showDurabilityBar(stack))

 

The only value that can be null on that line is the return of ItemStack#getItem, which means an ItemStack with a null Item is being rendered.

 

The method is being called from GuiContainerCreative#drawTab, which draws the tab's icon ItemStack into the GUI. This means that the ItemStack with the null Item is the one you're returning from CreativeTabs#getIconItemStack.

 

Creative tabs need to be initialised before items, so you can't pass an Item to a CreativeTabs constructor. Instead, override CreativeTabs#getTabIconItem or CreativeTabs#getIconItemStack (there's no need to override both) to get the Item from the the field it's being stored in (e.g. in your ModItems class).

Interesting, my old singular tap worked just fine and is in the same spot. I'll move them.

2 minutes ago, Choonster said:

Line 429 of RenderItem is the following:

 if (stack.getItem().showDurabilityBar(stack))

 

The only value that can be null on that line is the return of ItemStack#getItem, which means an ItemStack with a null Item is being rendered.

 

The method is being called from GuiContainerCreative#drawTab, which draws the tab's icon ItemStack into the GUI. This means that the ItemStack with the null Item is the one you're returning from CreativeTabs#getIconItemStack.

 

Creative tabs need to be initialised before items, so you can't pass an Item to a CreativeTabs constructor. Instead, override CreativeTabs#getTabIconItem or CreativeTabs#getIconItemStack (there's no need to override both) to get the Item from the the field it's being stored in (e.g. in your ModItems class).

 

That's probably why my old one worked fine, it returned directly not from a value