Re: Identifier expected but I have identifier, please help

From:
Nobody Special <happyposter@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:23:39 -0500
Message-ID:
<7le503h6jfn4ck5vkcus0fji6bqasjkfhj@4ax.com>
"phillip.s.powell@gmail.com" <phillip.s.powell@gmail.com> wrote:

You are using a reserved word "class" for a variable name in your
createImageIcon method. Change the name to "aClass" or something
similar as shown and it will compile.

/*
* IconHandler.java
*
* Created on March 22, 2007, 11:57 AM
*
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package com.ppowell.tools.imagetools;

import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

/**
*
* @author ppowell-c
*/
public class IconHandler {

   /** Creates a new instance of IconHandler */
   public IconHandler() {}

  // protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path, Class<T> class) {


    protected static ImageIcon createImageIcon(String path, Class<T>
aClass) {

// URL imgURL = class.getResource(path);


   URL imgURL = aClass.getResource(path);

       if (imgURL != null) {
           return new ImageIcon(imgURL);
       } else {
           System.err.println("Couldn't find file: " + path);
           return null;
       }
   }

}

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