setFont GObject help

[Hollywood_99]

I am really new to Java, and I have been following a tutorial and I have written the code exactly as it is on the screen and I am getting an error with SetFont, (it's underlined in red). I am using Eclipse and I believe I have the latest build of Java for Mac. For the life of me...I don't know why it's not working...

Here is my code:


import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;

import acm.program.*;
import acm.graphics.*;



/*
* HelloProgram
*/


public class HelloProgram2 extends GraphicsProgram {

public void run() {
GLabel label = new GLabel( "hello, world", 100, 75);
label.setFont("Helvetica-24"); // <-- This line
label.setColor(Color.RED);
add(label);
}


}

[pbrockway2]

What is the actual error?

According to the GLbel API docs there is a setFont() method that takes a string argument.

Make sure you don't have any other class with the name GLabel hanging around. Ie there should not be a file GLabel.java in the same directory.

[Hollywood_99]

The method setFont(Font) in the type GLabrl is not applicable for the arguments(String)

It also puts a red line under setFont

[pbrockway2]

That's weird unless you are using a different version of the acm library from the tutorial (and the docs I linked to). Try using the setFont() version that takes a Font argument:

label.setFont(Font.decode("Helvetica-24"));

[Hollywood_99]

Thank you for your help! I really very much appreciate it.

[pbrockway2]

You're welcome.