Thanks William, you are right, I moved the code down to the methods and ti works fine.
Thanks, Tim. P.S. You said that in IRC you put the code in a "paste bin and then send a link", how do I do this or where can I find out more about this. "William H. Mitchell" wrote: > I count Tom as a good friend and valued colleague but I've got to respectfully > disagree with him on this point. I don't see a charter on the JUG website but > for History, I see this: > > The Tucson Java Users Group was established to provide information about > Java and Java related technologies to its members, to facilitate contacts > between its members and to promote the use of Java technology in Tucson, > Arizona. > > That seems to allow questions from students, whether on homework assignments > or not, or very basic questions from anybody. Perhaps Tim's instructor and TA > (if any) are off-line for this holiday weekend, and Tim wants to keep moving. > > When I teach at UA I always encourage students to participate in the JUG > mailing list, come to meetings, etc. Few do. I'm happy to see that Tim sees > some value in the knowledge of the JUG members. > > I don't think some number of simple questions are going to ruin the group, and > besides it's been pretty slow of late. If a flood of simple questions > develops, great -- let's add a jug-newbies list and grow our community. > > There are a number of *newbie IRC channels, but I don't know of one for Java. > There is ##java on Freenode is but it's pretty snobby. > > But Tim, Tom's right -- you haven't provided enough context to accurately > diagnose the problem. If I had to guess, I might guess you've got code > directly inside a class definition, instead of inside a method definition. > > If that's not it, let's see the whole file. Feel free to send it off-list to > me, or post to the list, and risk another blast. :) > > You may know that a common practice on IRC is to put (all) the code in a paste > bin and then send a link. That's pretty unobtrusive for e-mail, too. If > somebody wants to look, they can. If not, there's no bloat. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Thanks, Tim Worden (520) 548-4805 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you obtain it. 1 Cor. 9:24