Re: Compilation ....cannot find symbol

From:
Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:36:54 -0300
Message-ID:
<b9Idr.6103$qw7.1141@newsfe08.iad>
On 12-03-31 03:25 PM, linus wrote:

 java:46: cannot find symbol

symbol : constructor ImagePanel(java.awt.Image)
location: class Movimento.ImagePanel

      ImagePanel imagepanel = new ImagePanel(image0);
1 error
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)

WHAT IS WRONG IN THIS CONSTRUCTOR ?

    private class ImagePanel extends JPanel {

         Image image;

         private Image ImagePanel(Image image ) {
         return this.image = image ;} }


A constructor has no return type. What you wrote there is a regular
instance method that takes an Image parameter and returns an Image.

I stand to be corrected, but I doubt you understood what it is that you
did there with

return this.image = image;

This is legal. It's just not good practise. In any case it's not what
you wanted, because you won't be returning anything from a constructor
once you've actually written one.

AHS

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