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JTextArea / JTextComponent setText is crashing

I am new to Java in general and in particular with the Swing library. When I experimented with the demo version of Notepad (a standard JDK demo), I got a crash when trying to change text in the editor window. My sample code is:

void Filter(Component f){
  if (f instanceof JTextComponent){
    JTextComponent textComponent = (JTextComponent) f;
    textComponent.setVisible(false); //Works
    textComponent.setVisible(true); //Works
    textComponent.getText(); //Works
    textComponent.updateUI(); //Works
    textComponent.setText("Hello world!"); //Crashes
  }else{
    RecursiveGet(f);
  }
}
void RecursiveGet(Component c){
  for (Component f : ((JComponent) c).getComponents()) {
    if (f instanceof JComponent) {
      Filter(f);
    }
  }
}

I searched for a JTextComponent instance until I found it and then checked some methods. I think I'm missing something, some details. My environment is JDK 1.7, JRE 7.0, Win7 x64. I will be happy to help. Thank.

Update I am adding an Exception handler

void Filter(Component f){
        if (f instanceof JTextComponent){
            JTextComponent textComponent = (JTextComponent) f;
            textComponent.setVisible(false);  //Work
            textComponent.setVisible(true);  //Work
            textComponent.getText();  //Work
            textComponent.updateUI(); //Work
            try {
            textComponent.setText("Hello world!"); //Crash
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }else{
            RecursiveGet(f);
        }
    }

and get it.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthContext.getPainter(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthTextAreaUI.update(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paintComponent(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JViewport.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paintToOffscreen(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager$PaintManager.paintDoubleBuffered(Unknown S
ource)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager$PaintManager.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paint(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent._paintImmediately(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.paintImmediately(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager.prePaintDirtyRegions(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager.access$700(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.RepaintManager$ProcessingRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(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 Sour
ce)
        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)

Update 2 The setText method works after adding an exception handler block. But what did I miss?

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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class TestFilter extends JPanel {
   public TestFilter() {
      JPanel textFieldPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0, 3));
      for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
         textFieldPanel.add(new JTextField(10));
      }

      JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
      buttonPanel.add(new JButton(new FilterAction("Show Text", "Hello World")));
      buttonPanel.add(new JButton(new FilterAction("Clear Text", "")));

      setLayout(new BorderLayout());
      add(textFieldPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
      add(new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(10, 15)));
      add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
   }

   private class FilterAction extends AbstractAction {
      private String text;

      public FilterAction(String name, String text) {
         super(name);
         this.text = text;
      }

      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
         filter(TestFilter.this, text);
      }
   }

   void filter(Component f, String text) {
      if (f instanceof JTextComponent) {
         JTextComponent textComponent = (JTextComponent) f;
         textComponent.setVisible(false); // Works
         textComponent.setVisible(true); // Works
         textComponent.getText(); // Works
         textComponent.updateUI(); // Works
         textComponent.setText(text); // Crashes
      } else {
         RecursiveGet(f, text);
      }
   }

   void RecursiveGet(Component c, String text) {
      for (Component f : ((JComponent) c).getComponents()) {
         if (f instanceof JComponent) {
            filter(f, text);
         }
      }
   }

   private static void createAndShowGui() {
      JFrame frame = new JFrame("TestFilter");
      frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      frame.getContentPane().add(new TestFilter());
      frame.pack();
      frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
            createAndShowGui();
         }
      });
   }
}

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java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        // modify swing components
    }
});

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