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From: "Gavino" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: It doesn't like 'super' where ever I put it.
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:13:29 +0200
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"Stefan Ram" <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message
news:constructor-20120610205100@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de...
> Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> writes:
> >On 10.06.2012 19:10, Stefan Ram wrote:
> >> v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) writes:
> >>> This is not a constructor, but a method named like one.
> >>I'm not sure, whether this explains the error message given:
> >>|Constructor must call super() or this() before
> >>, because when there is no explicit constructor, the compiler
> >>will generate one, and this generated constructor /should/
> >>call »super() or this() before«.
> >The compiler will only generate a default constructor (i.e. without
> >arguments) if there is no other constructor.
>
>   There was no (other) constructor in the code of the OP,
>   so a default constructor must have been generated, which
>   will include a correct call of »super()«.

It can't because the superclass (JFrame) does not have a constructor without
arguments.