Class can't be instantiated

Question

Hi guys
Just having trouble running this applet for some reason, in any browser. Other applets are working at the minute, so it doesn't look like a prob with the browsers or JVM.
Heres the code, followed by the error message.
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public abstract class ColourButtons extends Applet
                                          implements ActionListener, MouseListener
     private Button colorButtons[] = new Button[7];
    private Color color = Color.black;
     int x1, y1, x2, y2 = 1;
    public void init()
          setLayout(new BorderLayout(20,20));
          Panel pWest = new Panel();
          pWest.setLayout(new GridLayout(7,1));
          for(int x =0; x <= 6; x++)
               colorButtons[x] = new Button("   ");
               pWest.add(colorButtons[x]);
               add("West",pWest);
               //add actionlisteners for each button
               colorButtons[x].addActionListener(this);
               if(x == 0){
                    color = Color.red;}
               else if( x==1){
                    color = Color.blue;}
               else if(x==2){
                    color = Color.green;}
               else if(x==3){
                    color = Color.yellow;}
               else if(x==4){
                    color = Color.orange;}
               else if(x==5){
                    color = Color.black;}
               else if(x==6){
                    color = Color.white;}
               colorButtons[x].setBackground(color);
        setBackground(Color.gray);
    public void paint(Graphics g)
          Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
          g2.setColor(color);
          //create Rectangle Object
          Rectangle myRectangle = new Rectangle(x1,y1,x2,y2);
          g2.draw(myRectangle);
                   g2.drawString("HELLO", 150,100);
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent a)
        Button button = (Button)a.getSource();
        color = button.getBackground();
        repaint();
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e)
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
          x1 = e.getX();
          y1 = e.getY();
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)
          x2 = e.getX();
          y2 = e.getY();
}And heres the error message.
load: ColourButtons.class can't be instantiated.
java.lang.InstantiationException
at sun.reflect.InstantiationExceptionConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance
(InstantiationExceptionConstructorAccessorImpl.java:30)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:306)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:566)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:495)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:292)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Any ideas at what is wrong?
Any help/pointers greatly appreciated
Cheers

Answer 1

ok cheers thats sorted it. For some reason it wanted it to be abstract once i added mouse listener i think.
Anyway cheers