Swing not working ...

[Paul Moran]

Hi All,

Im very new to Java and I am doing a simple 'Hello World' swing tutorials as follows:

import javax.swing.*;        
 
public class HelloWorldSwing {
    /**
     * Create the GUI and show it.  For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event-dispatching thread.
     */
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Make sure we have nice window decorations.
        JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
 
        //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("HelloWorldSwing");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 
        //Add the ubiquitous "Hello World" label.
        JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello World");
        frame.getContentPane().add(label);
 
        //Display the window.
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
        //creating and showing this application's GUI.
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

When i run the HelloWorldSwing.java file it pops up the code in Notepad instead of the expected JFrame ...

What have i overlooked ??

Cheers for any help

Paul

[Amirthalingam Prasanna]

What do u mean it pops up the code in Notepad?How r u running ur program? Plz specify

[Paul Moran]

im running it from DOS in a console from c:/sun/appserver/jdk/bin using java c:\<path>\file.java

and then it just opens the code in notepad ?

Seems that the swing libraries dont kick into action ?

Does that help clear it up at all ?

Cheers for your help!!!

Paul

[Amirthalingam Prasanna]

Hi,
Well first of all you are not compiling your program.From the directory try
in the commmand prompt:
javac <filename>.java

This will compile and give you a class file called HelloWorld.class
after than to run you program in the command prompt type:
java HelloWorldSwing

If any problem shoot back on this thread

[Paul Moran]

hey mate,

ooppss...should have cleared that up...I have compiled it..in my dir I have HelloWorldSwing.class and HelloWorldSwing.java ...

I used javac c:\sun\appserver\jdk\bin HelloWorldSwing.java to compile and get the .class file...then i run java c:\sun\appserver\jdk\bin\<working dir>\HelloWorldSwing.java

This is where i get the apparent error ...notepad popping up and no JFrame window as expected.

Im quite confused...

Cheers mate...hope to hear from yuo soon

Paul

[Amirthalingam Prasanna]

You are running it wrong buddy:

It shdn't be:
java c:\sun\appserver\jdk\bin\<working dir>\HelloWorldSwing.java

It shd be:
java c:\sun\appserver\jdk\bin\<working dir>\HelloWorldSwing

No .java when u r using java.....(i mean when u r running)

cheers

[Paul Moran]

when i do that i get

'HelloWorldSwing' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Any clues ?

thanks again mate

Paul

[Amirthalingam Prasanna]

Hi,
Try first going into ur working directory first
and then type

java HelloWorldSwing

If it says

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

'HelloWorldSwing' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
then u r not typing the java word...try again and see. It has nothing to with ur code.The problem is in the way u r running the program buddy

[Paul Moran]

okey dokey...i think we're getting somewhere ...

Im in my working directory and i type: java HelloWorldSwing

and i get the following:

Exception occured during the event dispatching:
java.lang.NoSuchMethosError
     at HelloWorldSwing.createAndShowGUI(helloworldswing.java:11)
     at HelloWorldSwing.access$000(helloworldswing.java:3)
     at HelloWorldSwing$1.run(helloworldswing.java:31)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unkown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHeirarchy(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unkown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unkown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unkown Source)

Does that make the problem obvious to you ?? as it just makes me more confused lol

cheers again mate..appreciate your help!!

Paul

[Amirthalingam Prasanna]

Its running perfectly in my machine...

[Paul Moran]

do i have to anything to 'enable' swing ??

Im totally clueless as to what may have gone wrong ?

[Amirthalingam Prasanna]

Nothing to enable...

[Paul Moran]

does this error code lead you to any ideas ??

Exception occured during the event dispatching:java.lang.NoSuchMethosError
     at HelloWorldSwing.createAndShowGUI(helloworldswing.java:11)
     at HelloWorldSwing.access$000(helloworldswing.java:3)
     at HelloWorldSwing$1.run(helloworldswing.java:31)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unkown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHeirarchy(Unknown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unkown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unkown Source)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unkown Source)

cheers mate
[ June 14, 2004: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]

[Jim Yingst]

Paul - when you put something in code tags, please make sure the line contains line breaks. Otherwise you get a really long line that makes the rest of the page virtually unreadable. That is, it forces the whole page to be really wide, and we have to use the horizontal scrollbar to read each line. Ugh! Thanks.

[Jose Botella]

Welcome to the Ranch Paul!

That error occurs due to an improper change to a class. For instance say class A uses B.method. If B.method is changed but the corresponding invocation in class A is not, the latter will continue on calling the previous method, but because it was not recompiled the compiler doesn't warn you. NoSuchMethodError will be thrown by the JVM.

Because of the variety of problems you have experience so far, the best you can do is to delete all the classes in that directory and compile the program again.

[Paul Moran]

Jim:

Sorry about that one mate...my bad...wont happen again

Jose:

I have just deleted the two class files from my working dir. After i recompile, I get the two class files (as expected) ...when i go to run the program, I still get these errors

I have a page here that I am using to help troubleshoot this annoying error:
http://www.vfxtalk.com/java_page.htm

Appreciate any help you can give...this really is getting quite annoying

Cheers

Paul

[Brian Pipa]

I tried it and it worked fine for me. What version of java are you using? (type java -version to find out). My guess is that you are not using a version that is 1.4 or greater. Here is how I figured it out:

The error says NoSuchmethodError and gives you line 12 in your code.
line 12 is this:
JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
A quick check of the javadocs for Jframe.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated() says:
"Since: 1.4 "
Which means this method was added starting at 1.4.
This means any JVM before 1.4 won't have that method and would give you a NoSuchMethodError.

So, either take out that line, or upgrade to a 1.4 or better JVM (I recommend upgrading)

brian

[Jose Botella]

It's working ok for me.

Try to see if the classpath enviroment variable is pointing to a directory in which an old incompatible copy of HelloWorldSwing.class inhabits. That would make to load the untrusted class before the one you really want.

Such class could also be causing troubles in the extensions directory "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\jre\lib\ext"

You can see which are the classes really loaded via the option "-verbose:class" to java command.
In the output look for "[Loaded HelloWorldSwing]". The absence of path means it was loaded from the current directory.