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In TWLSlick.zip (state based game), I didn't have xpp3-1.1.4c.jar in my libs/path and TWL would just silently fail till initGUI() with "Could not initialize TWL GUI". Why doesn't it fail sooner than then or with a more descriptive exception? Shouldn't it throw an fatal exception if it can't parse the theme file?

The ClassNotFoundException is wrapped in a SlickException inside the initGUI method, you should see the cause of this in the stack trace. If you don't like that you can change the catch(Throwable) into a more fine grained catch.

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TWL - The Themable Widget Library

ok, it was just a bit confusing though since it wasn't clear on what it was failing on. More newbies testing that example might have that same problem which was not fun to troubleshoot.