Re: eclipse help

From:

Dale King <"DaleWKing [at]gmail [dot] com">

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:30:02 -0400

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Thomas Fritsch wrote:

animality wrote:

i'm pretty new to eclipse. i have a little problem here. when ever i
write a code in eclipse and suppose that i have to catch an exception
in that block, within the catch statement, eclipse doesn't allow me to
define the specific instance of the exception. i mean

try
{
...
...
}
catch(FileNotFoundException e)
{
...
}

but eclipse flags an error at the catch statement.

Exactly which error does it flag?
Is it "FileNotFoundException cannot be resolved to a type"?
The reason for that would be the missing
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

And the easy way to add that is to use control space to find the type
for you. You can type fileno<ctrl-space> and that should complete the
word and add the import for you.

The reason that you don't see this with Exception is that it is in
java.lang package which is visible by default and needs no import.

What I usually do is save myself the bother of typing the try-catch
myself. Just type the code without the try-catch. Select the code and
say surround with try-catch block in the source menu or just use the
quick-fix. This will add the necessary catch blocks for you.

--
Dale King