# Multi-state button customization not working

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-state-button-customization-not-working/5617>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 27, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-state-button-customization-not-working/5617 "2012-12-27T00:57:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Alberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8c91f0/32.png) [@Luis\_Alberto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Luis_Alberto)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-state-button-customization-not-working/5617/1 "2012-12-27T00:57:35Z")

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I recently started using ignition, when i tried to customize multi state buttons (or any object that has the “customize style” option) the console gives me the following error, which haven’t occurred before i customized several multi-state buttons before but now the error keeps persistance:

I looked in the forum for similar questions but didn’t found any, if this was solved before please share the answer or link to topic.

`Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.property.customizers.nstatebutton.EditPanel.<init>(EditPanel.java:94)
	at com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.property.customizers.nstatebutton.NStateButtonCustomizer.initComponents(NStateButtonCustomizer.java:48)
	at com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.property.customizers.nstatebutton.NStateButtonCustomizer.setObjects(NStateButtonCustomizer.java:30)
	at com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.property.CustomizerDialog.<init>(CustomizerDialog.java:64)
	at com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.property.propertytable.PropertyTablePanel.handleCustomizerAction(PropertyTablePanel.java:202)
	at com.inductiveautomation.factorypmi.designer.model.CustomizerAction.actionPerformed(CustomizerAction.java:40)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-state-button-customization-not-working/5617/2 "2012-12-27T03:28:55Z")

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What version of Ignition are you using?

This sounds like one of the issues we ran into when Java 7 came out but most, if not all, were fixed in subsequent releases of Ignition. However, if you are using a sufficiently old version of Ignition (some 7.3.x versions and anything before that) with Java 7 that could definitely be the cause.

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**Author:** ![Luis\_Alberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8c91f0/32.png) [@Luis\_Alberto](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Luis_Alberto)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-state-button-customization-not-working/5617/3 "2012-12-27T20:22:21Z")

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I was fearing that was the problem, i am using a 7.2.x version of ignition, i will update to a newer version. Thanks a lot.