[brailleblaster] Re: Here's one for the Java experts.
- From: Richard Baldwin <baldwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 13:07:04 -0500
If Shell is the name of a class, the only methods that can be called using
the syntax
Shell.dispose();
are static methods. If dispose() is not static, it can't be called this way.
Just a guess. Beyond that, I would need to see some code.
Dick Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:56 PM, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> In one of my methods the compiler complains about the statement
> Shell.dispose(); It says I can't call a nonstatic method in a static
> context. The method in which this statement occurs is not static. It was
> moved from another class in which there was no problem.
>
> I can provide the code, of course, but I thought you might be able to
> answer this one from your experience.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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