Re: what the problem about this short code?

From:
Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:52:03 -0400
Message-ID:
<t9mdnapMaZ4Od73bnZ2dnUVZ_h_inZ2d@comcast.com>
Jussi Piitulainen wrote:

dolphin writes:

import javax.media.Manager;

import javax.media.bean.playerbean.MediaPlayer;
import java.lang.String;

public class Player1 {
    MediaPlayer mp1 = new MediaPlayer();
    public Player1(){
    mp1.setMediaLocation(new String("file:\\d:\\music\\11.wma"));
    }
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Player1 player1=new Player1();
        player1.mp1.start();
    }
    }

it says that Cannot find a Player for :file:\d:\music\11.wma.what
the problem?


I don't know about media players, but I have a couple of suggestions.

First, importing any java.lang.* class is redundant in a bad way: it
doesn't affect the meaning of the program, but it leaves a reader of
the code looking for an explanation.

Second, never write

 new String("foo")

for any literal "foo". Instead, write just

 "foo"

and it will be a perfectly adequate String. Or if you are trying to
appear paranoid, consider something like this:

 (String)new String(new String((String)((String)"foo").toString()))


Furthermore, URLs take forward slashes, not backslashes.

--
Lew

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