compile problem

[chrisbremen]

im having an issue with compiling a practice code.

Im importing from swing and i have set my path to the right directory but when i try to compile it gives me:
cannot find symbol

my computer didnt have a classpath so i created one and put the location in there but it still didnt work.

[Eranga]

Can you copy-paste full error message you get? Seems this is not related with the class path, something wrong with your code.

[chrisbremen]

" RefTester.java:1: cannot find symbol
symbol : class point
location: package java.awt
import java.awt.point;

RefTester.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol: class Point
location: class RefTester
Point pt1, pt2;

RefTester.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol: class Point
location: class RefTester
pt1 = new Point(100, 100);"


There is the error

[Fubarable]

you need to import java.awt.Point; not java.awt.point;

Capitalization matters.

[Eranga]

What the best practice is, if you don't know what the correct class is import the complete package.

import java.awt.*;

Actually most of new Java IDEs can identify those capitalization errors. But my opinion is don't stick on that. Just try to overcome such things based on the error message you get.

[chrisbremen]

ok thanks that worked it compile ok but now im having a problem with running it

it gives me the following:
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: RefTester

[Eranga]

Did you set the class path correctly? Are you working on the command prompt?

[chrisbremen]

yes i am using command prompt and i had the path set correctly because i compiled and ran another one earlier and it was fine.

but i just went back to run that one again and it is giving me the same error so maybe the path did get messed up some how

[chrisbremen]

right now my path is set to C:\program files\java\jdk1.6_07\bin

my computer doesnt have a classpath only a Path