GridPane setPadding(); error

[Christian Antfeld]

The grid.setPadding method is giving me an error in my program saying that java.awt insets can not be converted to javafx.geometry insets.  I have changed the geometry import to include all of the geometry package by using the .* after geometry but nothing has changed.

I must be missing something.  I am following the Oracle tutorial exactly as it is written but this error persists and causes a compiler error.

[Randy Maddocks]

Hi Christian,

One thing I have learned about imports is you have to be careful not to presume importing "broad-based" packages covers all classes (using wildcards), specifically the one you need.

Try importing javafx.geometry.Insets specifically instead of javafx.geometry.*, which I presume you were trying to do.

Hope this helps. If it does, credit goes to the responder on this forum

Regards,

Randy

[Christian Antfeld]

I believe I have tried that already but I will try it once again later when I get home from work.  If no response, it didn't work.  Thanks for the info though.  I didn't know that wasn't a catch-all for instances like that.

[Randy Maddocks]

You are welcome.

My comment concerning wildcards in import statements aside, without seeing all the import statements you are using, but based on the error you indicated, the compiler is looking for the specific javafx.geometry.Insets package. If you have java.awt.Insets then that is not the one the compiler needs.