Question on declaring an object initialized in a constructor

Question

Anyone knwo what is wrong with the winappFrame line below? It's from a book I'm following along and it errors in my IDE.
public class winapp extends java.applet.Applet {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          winappFrame frame = new winappFrame("System Status");
          frame.resize(400, 300);
          winapp applet = new winapp();
          frame.add("Center", applet);
          applet.init();
          applet.start();
          frame.show();
     public void paint(Graphics g) {
          g.drawString("The system is currently down", 60, 30);
     class winappFrame extends Frame {
          public winappFrame(String str) {
               super (str);
          public boolean handleEvent(Event evt) {
               switch(evt.id) {
                    case Event.WINDOW_DESTROY:
                         dispose();
                    System.exit(0);
                    return true;
                    default:
                    return super.handleEvent(evt);
     }

Answer 1

Your error message in Reply #2 (don't know why it says textfields, but ...) means:
winappFrame class only exists inside an instance of winapp. So, try this:
Instead of what you have:
winappFrame frame = new winappFrame("System Status"); // 1
frame.resize(400, 300); // 2
winapp applet = new winapp(); // 3Do this:
winapp applet = new winapp(); // 3 [above]
winappFrame frame = applet.new winappFrame("System Status"); // 1 above [note change]
frame.resize(400, 300); // 2 [above]