Compiler error: "cannot find symbol" - constructor

Question

Dear all,
I keep getting the compiler error "cannot find symbol" - constructor AWTEvent() for the following class. It's supposed to extend AWTEvent to give me my own event to be fired. What could be wrong?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class MyButtonEvent extends AWTEvent
     public MyButtonEvent()
}Thanks a lot!
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Answer 1

When you do this
public MyButtonEvent()
}you are implicitly calling the super class constructor with no parameters
That is:
AWTEvent();
you can think of it as
public MyButtonEvent()
     AWTEvent(); // <-- automatically generated for you
     //the rest of your stuff
}the problem is that AWTEvent has no such constructor, so you need to explicitly put another constructor in your constructor as the first statement. This other constructor has to be one that exists in AWTEvent.