java.lang.StackOverflowError

[Sandy Abraham]

Hi guys,
I wrote a class for MyCanvas which has the paint method.
And i have another class 'HandleCanvas' which extends MyCanvas and implements KeyListener. In MyCanvas i wrote addKeyListener(new HandleCamvas()). Everything compiles ok. except that when i actually execute it, there's this java.lang.StackOverflowError in main. From what i know, it's because of some recursive method calling. But I am not sure where went wrong. Please help. Thanks.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

If you cut-and-pasted the stack trace here, we could probably tell you, but without it, we'd just be guessing.

[VIJAY Yadlapati]

(1) HandleCanvas extends MyCanvas implements KeyListener
(2) MyCanvas -> addKeyListener(new HandleCamvas());
When (2) is called, you have to create a new instance of HandleCanvas - which intern makes a call to its super class constructor, MyCanvas().
And I guess, you would have added the listener (2) in the constructor of MyCanvas.
So, you have to create another instance of HandleCanvas for adding keylistener - and the process continues.. until stack gets full.