Thread: Swing / AWT compile errors

Hi!

I just installed the latest eclipse and latest java (SE11). I am revisiting some old code and get a lot of compile errors. All in swing and awt package.

Some sample lines that give compile errors:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import javax.swing.Action;


I get this compile errors

Description Resource Path Location Type
The package java.awt is not accessible TestGUI.java Java Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
The type javax.swing.Action is not accessible Java Problem



This comes from a project i just created. I copy pasted some code (gui related) from an old program. The old program still compiles fine, but the new
program(with the same code) gives me these error.

How do i fix this?

Thanks

Indeed the solution was to add this line:

requires java.desktop;


To the module-info.java file.