Can't find symbol error with registerFont() - why?

Question

I am using the following code which is essentially the same as I copied from a post of someone for whom it apparently works. I am using JDK6 and Netbeans.
No matter what I do the line containing registerFont() causes Netbeans to flag it with the following error message:
cannot find symbol
symbol : method registerFont(java.awt.Font)
location: class java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment
Here is the code. What do I need to do to get rid of this error?
Thanks!
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontFormatException;
import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
public class FontLoad {
public Font downloadFont(String filename) throws IOException, FontFormatException{
URL serverStream=new URL("xxxxxxxxxxxx.com");
URLConnection uc=serverStream.openConnection();
System.out.println("Connection established. Downloading font...");
uc.setDoInput(true);
InputStream is=serverStream.openStream();
Font font=Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, is);
GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().registerFont(font); // <-----
System.out.println("Font downloaded.");
is.close();
System.out.println("Connection closed.");
font=font.deriveFont(45);
font=font.deriveFont(Font.PLAIN);
return font;
}

Answer 1

Addirional note: This is a java class within a JavaFX application if that is relevant.
It does seem to be relevant - if I create the same class as part of a Java application rether than a JavaFX application it compiles without error. Is the imported java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment different in the tow cases??
Edited by: Sidereal on Aug 28, 2009 11:19 AM