From f38e5832e3297783e84c9e77b7a9590b19fdb479 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Fry <fry@processing.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:44:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] looking into causes behind #3667

---
 app/src/processing/app/contrib/ContributionListPanel.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/contrib/ContributionListPanel.java b/app/src/processing/app/contrib/ContributionListPanel.java
index 66f55b8f2..23dc05dcc 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/contrib/ContributionListPanel.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/contrib/ContributionListPanel.java
@@ -296,6 +296,11 @@ public class ContributionListPanel extends JPanel implements Scrollable, Contrib
                                                    int column) {
       Contribution contribution = (Contribution) value;
       JLabel label = new JLabel();
+      if (value == null) {
+        // Working on https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/3667
+        System.err.println("null value seen in getTableCellRendererComponent()");
+        return label;
+      }
       if (column == 0) {
         Icon icon = null;
         label.setFont(Toolkit.getSansFont(14, Font.PLAIN));