Trouble initiating a Client in Eclipse

raphytaffy

Hi all, I am working on a Processing program within Eclipse and I am having issues initiating the Client object. I have properly imported both core.jar and net.jar from the Processing package into my class from these locations:

C:\Program Files\eclipse\processing-2.0.2\core\library C:\Program Files\eclipse\processing-2.0.2\modes\java\libraries\net\library\net.jar

public class Client extends PApplet {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 0L;

    // Declare a client
    Client client;

    public void setup() {
        size(400, 200);

        // create the client
        client = new Client(this, "127.0.0.1", 8888);
    }
}

The line Eclipse is complaining about (client = new Client(this, "127.0.0.1", 8888) shows an error: the constructor Client(Client, String, int) is undefined.

Per the Client API, there is a constructor that takes those arguments: http://processing.org/reference/libraries/net/Client.html.

I have even tried client = new Client(this, 8888); and Eclipse is still complaining about an error. Can anyone help guide me on how to resolve this? Thanks.

Manindra29

Your class is named Client and processing's 'net' library also has a class named Client. To refer to the processing's class, use processing.net.Client client;. Or you could rename your class to something else like MyClient.

PhiLho

Well spotted, Manindra29!

The error is more common in the PDE (the article Common issues with sketch names (yes, that's a Technical FAQ!) addresses this case) but obviously, it applies to Eclipse as well.