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stfu

Posted by morpheus on February 13, 2002 at 1:32 PM

>
> Just like the error message says. You made a illegal cast.

> javax.swing.text.StateInvariantError: Illegal cast to MutableAttributeSet

are you so dumb by nature or did you have to try hard?
an illegal cast gives a ClassCastException, nothing else, and besides: it would be checked rather by the VM than by the AbstractElement itself.

bye,

me.