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[java] identifier expected

I am trying to change the default behavior of a JTextArea. I want to change the font, the font flags, and the font size of the text entered into the area. Here is my code in its amazing entirety:

Code:

JTextArea canvas = new JTextArea(30,70);

canvas.setFont(new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD | Font.ITALIC, 20));

I am getting a compiler error specifying "identifier expected" for the 2nd line. It is complaining about the call to setFont(), which is a method inherited from Component. I posted this on a programming-oriented forum on another site and everyone is baffled and says my code should be fine. I am using JDK5 and compiling using javac.

I am thinking that perhaps I have an error elsewhere (and above) in my code and that perhaps it is cascading down to this function call....

The weird thing is if I comment out the 2nd line and replace it with:

Locale l = canvas.getLocale();

it works fine. In other words, it handles other Component methods perfectly fine, which tells me it doesn't like my call to setFont. I checked the method's definition out in the java docs and according to Sun, the signature for setFont() is this:

public void setFont(Font f)

So I don't see what I am missing here...

It certainly seems about right to me....don't see anything wrong with it...:confused:

maybe you could post some more of the code preceeding it?

Maybe too obvious, but did you import java.awt.Font?

Change it to

Code:

java.awt.Font f = new java.awt.Font("Arial", java.awt.Font.BOLD | java.awt.Font.ITALIC, 20);

JTextArea canvas = new JTextArea(30,70);

canvas.setFont(f);

and see if it complains about the first line.

Yeah I imported Font from the AWT. Actually a poster on another website suggested that its a cascading error from previous code. But that makes no sense because replacing it with a call to any other Component-inherited method works perfectly fine.

It either doesn't like setFont() or the argument I am passing it....which makes no sense again because I am using the correct signature....oy vey.

Use a canvas.setFont(null) .. what's it throw then? Same thing?