My method from another class is not being called?

Question

Alright I am super confused right now, I am using a piece of code in my program that is 95% similar to another piece I've used in an another program, the only difference is that it worked in the previous program...

it is basically a Image loading class/method and I'm trying to call it in my main class but its not working and the "cannot find symbol - class Image" error occurs.

Where I'm calling the method from my GameImage class:

    //STORE IMAGES
private static Image background;

GameImage class:

public class GameImage
{
public static Image loadImage(String imagePathName) {

    // All images are loades as "icons"
    ImageIcon i = null;

    // Try to load the image
    File f = new File(imagePathName);


    if(f.exists()) {  // Success. Assign the image to the "icon"
        i = new ImageIcon(imagePathName);
    }
    else {           // Oops! Something is wrong.
        System.out.println("\nCould not find this image: "+imagePathName+"\nAre file name and/or path to the file correct?");            
        System.exit(0);
    }

    // Done. Either return the image or "null"
    return i.getImage();

} // End of loadImages method

}

Where I load the image in main class:

        //load the images
    background = GameImage.loadImage("Images//background.jpg");

So yeah I dont know why that error keeps popping up because ive used that exact same code structure and GameImage class in another program... hmm

Any help would be great thanks :)

Answer 1

You lack the Image import statement.

Import the Image class and you should be fine.