Re: Identifier expected but I have identifier, please help

From:

"phillip.s.powell@gmail.com" <phillip.s.powell@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

22 Mar 2007 09:25:25 -0700

Message-ID:

<1174580725.542340.94260@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>

On Mar 22, 1:23 pm, Nobody Special <happypos...@hotmail.com> wrote:

"phillip.s.pow...@gmail.com" <phillip.s.pow...@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.

It didn't compile, I got the "Cannot find symbol: Class T" error

/*
* 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;
       }
   }

}