Re: Bug in code from Java Tutorial or is it just me?
printdude1968@gmail.com wrote:
I copied and pasted this code from the Sun Java Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/basic2d/examples/ImageLabel.java
A lot of sun's example code makes questionable
decisions about what to leave out, for the sake
of brevity. I leave it to others to argue whether this
omission constitutes buggy code, but I for one would
usually not recommend 'swallowing exceptions' as
this code does.
....
public class ImageLabel extends Component {
...
public static void main(String args[]) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Image Label");
BufferedImage img = null;
try {
String imageFileName = "painting.gif";
img = ImageIO.read(new File(imageFileName));
} catch (IOException e) {
// either dump exceptions, or justify (in a comment) why they
// can be ignored!
e.printStackTrace();
....
<Output>
javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1275)
....
</Output>
HTH
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