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The form editor throws exceptions (NullPointer, etc) EACH time an element (button, panel, etc) in the user's working form document is clicked. Once it simply froze my system. This also happens on another MacOSX box that I use with the software.
Please see issue 32142. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 32142 ***