Extending JEditorPane And Implementing Custom Attributes

Question

I was experimenting with the following code :
class MyEditorPane extends JEditorPane
     private String str="";
     private boolean status=false;
     MyEditorPane(String str, boolean value)
          this.str=str;
          this.status=value;
     public String getString()
          return this.str;
     public boolean getStatus()
          return this.status;
}now I wanted to instantiate this class and then get the values by calling the get methods in the following manner :
MyEditorPane editor=new MyEditorPane("hii...",true);
System.out.println(editor.getString());
System.out.println(editor.getStatus());but the problem is that the instance *'editor'* doesn't seem to identify those two manually coded methods..........
can anyone please enlighten me as to what I have done wrong and is there any other way of implementing this concept of having my own attributes attached with a java component?
awaiting ur response.......

Answer 1

Are you getting a compile error? Or a runtime problem?
Are you sure that the MyEditorPane in the accessing code is the same MyEditorPane as in your example?
This works fine for me:
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
class MyEditorPane extends JEditorPane {
    private String str = "";
    private boolean status = false;
    MyEditorPane(String str, boolean value) {
     this.str = str;
     this.status = value;
    public String getString() {
     return this.str;
    public boolean getStatus() {
     return this.status;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
     MyEditorPane editor = new MyEditorPane("hii...", true);
     System.out.println(editor.getString());
     System.out.println(editor.getStatus());
}Piet