two problems I need help

what if I do this...except i keep getting an exception error which I am still new to. can anyone help me?

ithome.java:67: e is already defined in actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent)

} catch (IOException e) {

^

1 error

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import java.applet.Applet;

import javax.swing.*;

import java.net.URL;

import java.io.IOException;

public class ithome extends Applet {

Image topBar;

JButton newsButton;

JButton projectsButton;

JButton issuesButton;

JButton learnButton;

JButton funButton;

JButton aboutButton;

JButton helpdeskButton;

JEditorPane editorPane;

JScrollPane editorScrollPane;

java.net.URL itURL;

public void paint(Graphics g) {

g.drawImage(topBar, 0, 0, this);

}

public void init() {

ithomeLayout customLayout = new ithomeLayout();

setFont(new Font("Helvetica", Font.PLAIN, 12));

setLayout(customLayout);

newsButton = new JButton("News");

newsButton.addActionListener(new NewsActionListener());

add(newsButton);

projectsButton = new JButton("Projects");

add(projectsButton);

issuesButton = new JButton("Issues");

add(issuesButton);

learnButton = new JButton("Learn");

add(learnButton);

funButton = new JButton("Fun");

add(funButton);

aboutButton = new JButton("About");

add(aboutButton);

helpdeskButton = new JButton("Help Desk");

add(helpdeskButton);

editorPane = new JEditorPane();

editorPane.setEditable(false);

editorScrollPane = new JScrollPane(editorPane);

add(editorScrollPane);

itURL = ithome.class.getResource("test.html");

topBar = getImage(getCodeBase(), "topBar.jpg");

setSize(getPreferredSize());

}

class NewsActionListener implements ActionListener{

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

if (itURL != null) {

try {

editorPane.setPage(itURL);

} catch (IOException e) {

System.err.println("Attempted to read a bad URL: " + itURL);

}

} else {

System.err.println("Couldn't find file: test.html");

}

}

}

public static void main(String args[]) {

ithome applet = new ithome();

Frame window = new Frame("ithome");

window.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {

public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {

System.exit(0);

}

});

applet.init();

window.add("Center", applet);

window.pack();

window.setVisible(true);

}

}

class ithomeLayout implements LayoutManager {

public ithomeLayout() {

}

public void addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) {

}

public void removeLayoutComponent(Component comp) {

}

public Dimension preferredLayoutSize(Container parent) {

Dimension dim = new Dimension(0, 0);

Insets insets = parent.getInsets();

dim.width = 791 + insets.left + insets.right;

dim.height = 542 + insets.top + insets.bottom;

return dim;

}

public Dimension minimumLayoutSize(Container parent) {

Dimension dim = new Dimension(0, 0);

return dim;

}

public void layoutContainer(Container parent) {

Insets insets = parent.getInsets();

Component c;

c = parent.getComponent(0);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+148,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(1);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+172,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(2);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+196,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(3);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+220,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(4);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+244,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(5);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+268,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(6);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+16,insets.top+292,92,24);}

c = parent.getComponent(7);

if (c.isVisible()) {c.setBounds(insets.left+128,insets.top+148,632,392);}

}

}

JavaBean5a at 2007-7-12 10:42:46 >

> Everything seems to be working but the buttons don't show up unless i mouse over

> it.

You are overriding Container's paint() method.. Try calling super.paint(g) so that the children get painted.

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Container.html#paint(java.awt.Graphics)

pbrockway2a at 2007-7-12 10:42:46 >

That's super.paint(g) with a dot.

It calls the parent (in a class sense - not a visual sense) of your applet and tells it to paint itself. The point is that an applet IS-A container and, as a container, it knows how to paint itself properly (ie paint all its children like those buttons). But when you define your own paint() method in applet you lose this behaviour (you override it).

pbrockway2a at 2007-7-21 21:25:34 >