Backwards compiling and Generics

[kammce]

I am not sure where I should place this thread. So, I stuck with the advanced Java area. I think this would have been placed in a Java Theory thread, but this forum does not have that.

I have the JDK 6 & 7 on my computer. I use them both to compile my game. The reason why I am using 6, is due to the fact that the people I want to play test my game do not have the latest version of Java, and I know that most people cannot be bothered to upgrade their Java versions or do not even know that their Java version is out of date. I could always tell them to upgrade to play the game, but I could also take the effort to compile two versions of the game.

So my simple question is; should I go back and forth, removing and replacing the generics in my code in order to get the 6 version of java to compile and to keep the 7 from throwing a warning? Should I remove all generics and suppress the warnings? Or should I just stick with JDK 7 and put a requirement to run the game as JDK 7 to run?

[JosAH]

Java 1.6 has generics (aamof, Java 1.5 already had it).

kind regards,

Jos

[kammce]

Hmmm, maybe that is not my issue. I am getting an error at

JComboBox<String> combo = new JComboBox<String>(difficutly);

The error is:

MainMenu.java:28: type javax.swing.JComboBox does not take parameters
	JComboBox<String> combo = new JComboBox<String>(difficutly);
	         ^
MainMenu.java:28: type javax.swing.JComboBox does not take parameters
	JComboBox<String> combo = new JComboBox<String>(difficutly);
	                                       ^
2 errors

This works perfectly fine when I compile it with 1.7. But this comes up when I compile it with 1.6

[JosAH]

Ah, too bad; the JComboBox class takes a type parameter in version 1.7 but it doesn't in version 1.6; I bet there are more classes that do that. I don't know an easy way out except to use the raw class in both versions.

kind regards,

Jos

[kammce]

Hmph. Well that is too bad. I guess I will stick with raw types. Its just an warning, but I was hoping that there was going to be a fix... Alright. Thank you for your time and help! Now the hard part. Figure out where the "[SOLVED]" button is.

[JosAH]

I changed the title status for you; due to a 'bug' in the forum software normal users can't set their thread to a 'solved' status.

kind regars,

Jos