Question

I am a little stuck. Why wont this work? I just get a error saying:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main

Exception in thread "main"

import java.awt.*; 
import javax.swing.*; 

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class ShowPNG extends JFrame
{    

  public void main(String arg) 
  { 
    if (arg == null ) {
        arg = "C:/Eclipse/workspace/ShowPNG/bin/a.png";
    }      
    JPanel panel = new JPanel(); 
    panel.setSize(500,640);
    panel.setBackground(Color.CYAN); 
    ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(arg); 
    JLabel label = new JLabel(); 
    label.setIcon(icon); 
    panel.add(label);
    this.getContentPane().add(panel); 
    this.setVisible(true);
  }
  
}

Answer 1

main needs to be static, and must have an argument of String[], not String.

To fix this stick everything in a constructor, such as

import java.awt.*; 
import javax.swing.*; 

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class ShowPNG extends JFrame
{    
  private ShowPNG(String arg){
      if (arg == null ) {
        arg = "C:/Eclipse/workspace/ShowPNG/bin/a.png";
    }      
    JPanel panel = new JPanel(); 
    panel.setSize(500,640);
    panel.setBackground(Color.CYAN); 
    ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(arg); 
    JLabel label = new JLabel(); 
    label.setIcon(icon); 
    panel.add(label);
    this.getContentPane().add(panel); 
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      new ShowPNG(args.length == 0 ? null : args[0]).setVisible(true); 
  }
}