Re: ImageIO problems

From:
"Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:04:59 -0400
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"Xrak" <bg229@scn.org> wrote in message
news:G8IGg.9318$Qf.2699@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...

Hi,

First let me say, I am new to Java. I am trying to write a little applet
for a web page that will do some special filtering on a graphic. In any
event, I am trying to load a graphic VIA ImageIO.read(), but keep getting
errors. Here is some sample code I wrote to test out ImageIO.read();:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

public class GraphicTest extends Applet {

public void init() {
 Image tileSheet = ImageIO.read(new File("blue.gif"));
}
public void paint(Graphics g) {
}
}

Ok, no big deal, really only one line that does anything... I get this
error:

GraphicTest.java:12: unreported exceptions java.io.IOException; must be
caught or declared to be thrown
       Image tileSheet = ImageIO.read(new File("blue.gif");
                                                        ^

You missed the closing parenthesis for the outer set of parentheses on that
line.

That carrot should be under the ( before new.


FYI: It's spelled "caret" and it's properly pronounced "care-RAY". A carrot
is an orange-coloured vegetable.

Basically, I have been trying (hit or miss) various syntax to try to get
ImageIO to work... but nothing. I either get errors like this or that it
is an undefined symbol. If I copy examples strait out of books it seems
not to even work. Can anyone help?


--
Rhino

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