Hi,
Please pardon the email handle (just something I picked to separate mailing-lists) and
the (possibly, new to the mailing-list) off-topic-ness of this question...
I keep hitting an obstacle while coding and I was hoping someone here could help
enlighten me:
A bunch of the java-standard methods return "Object" and when I try to use them, I get
the following error:
>> Incompatible type for declaration. Explicit cast needed to convert
java.lang.Object to (whatever)
In this particular instance, I've created a class which is a descendant of
java.awt.Checkbox. I add an ItemListener and the listener, therefore, receives an
ItemEvent. I call ItemEvent::getItem() and try to call a method that I've created for
the descendant class...hence the error which would seem to imply that if I'm going to
use the ItemEvent (or the java hashtable or a bunch of other stuff that I've just
worked around), I can only call Object::(whatever Object methods there are) after my
objects go thru the mill.
I'm pretty sure whatever I'm missing is pretty basic...could anyone shed some light on
this for me?
Thanks,
--Fred McDavid
