Weird Runtime error, please help.

Question

I recently started teaching myself java from a book, I liked it so I continued reading the book etc. I got to the chapter where it starts to talk about swing classes. The examples previous to this chapter compiled and worked great. Althoug in the swing class chapter none of the examples compile, well I shouldn't say that. They do "compile" but when I try to run them I get this error....
Here it is in full:
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x6D00FA9B
Function=[Unknown.]
Library=(N/A)
NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
reason and solutions.
Current Java thread:
     at sun.java2d.loops.Blit.Blit(Native Method)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.blitSurfaceData(DrawImage.java:627)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.renderSurfaceData(DrawImage.java:355)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.clipAndRenderSurfaceData(DrawImage.java:333)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(DrawImage.java:64)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(DrawImage.java:48)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(DrawImage.java:715)
     at sun.java2d.pipe.ValidatePipe.copyImage(ValidatePipe.java:147)
     at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(SunGraphics2D.java:2782)
     at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(SunGraphics2D.java:2772)
     at javax.swing.JComponent.paintWithOffscreenBuffer(JComponent.java:4745)
     at javax.swing.JComponent.paintDoubleBuffered(JComponent.java:4688)
     at javax.swing.JComponent._paintImmediately(JComponent.java:4632)
     at javax.swing.JComponent.paintImmediately(JComponent.java:4464)
     at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:404)
     at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest.run(SystemEventQueueUtilities.java:117)
     at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:178)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:443)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:144)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:130)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:98)
Dynamic libraries:
0x7D750000 - 0x7D76D000      C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IMAGEHLP.DLL
Local Time = Thu Mar 21 20:50:59 2002
Elapsed Time = 7
# The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.4.0-b92 mixed mode)
If anyone knows how to fix this I would really appreciate the help.
Thanks in advance,
Tuskony

Answer 1

Your right, I am using JDK 1.4.0, on Windows 98.
Here is a shortened down version of the code:
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class JTextFieldExample extends JPanel
JLabel lblName = new JLabel( "Name:", JLabel.RIGHT );
JTextArea txtName = new JTextArea( 40, 40 );
public JTextFieldExample()
setLayout( new GridLayout( 2, 2 ) );
add( txtName );
public static void main( String[] args )
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JTextField example = new JTextField();
frame.getContentPane().add( example, BorderLayout.CENTER );
frame.setSize( 200, 200 );
frame.setVisible( true );
frame.addWindowListener
new WindowAdapter()
public void WindowClosing( WindowEvent e )
System.exit( 0 );