I no the problem is not with the program its with my pc. I am able to compile this program fine on my school's pc but i can't on my laptop.

The program is

public class SwingIO
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        /*
           (To contrast this sample with the ConsoleIO program, note
           that no "throws IOException" clause is required above in
           the declaration of the method: main. Note also that the
           swing input routines do not require declarations analagous
           to those of InputStreamReader and BufferedReader objects
           of the ConsoleIO program.)
        */

        /*
           Following are the input variables of this sample program.
           Note that numbers must be read in as Strings and then
           converted.
        */
        String name;
        String numberString; // Each number will be read here in turn

        /*
           Numeric inputs will be converted to ints and placed in
           these two variables.
        */
        int number1, number2;

        /*
           Following produces an input window to pop us with the prompt
           message shown in the parameter. Whatever the user enters is
           stored in the name variable.
        */
        name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What is your first name?");

        /*
           Read and convert the first integer. Note: the program will
           crash in the conversion process if a value entered for either
           the first or second integer are not valid integer numbers.
        */
        numberString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
            "Enter first integer value:");
        number1 = Integer.parseInt(numberString);

        /*
           Read and convert the second integer (see note just above).
        */
        numberString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
            "Enter second integer value:");
        number2 = Integer.parseInt(numberString);

        // Calculates and displays the answer
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Hello, " + name + "!" + "\n" +
            "The sum of " + number1 + " and " + number2 +
            " is " + (number1 + number2) + ".");
    }
}

And the error message is

C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Java Programs\SwingIO.java:34: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable JOptionPane 
location: class SwingIO
        name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What is your first name?");
                       ^
C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Java Programs\SwingIO.java:41: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable JOptionPane 
location: class SwingIO
        numberString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
                               ^
C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Java Programs\SwingIO.java:48: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable JOptionPane 
location: class SwingIO
        numberString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(
                               ^
C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\Java Programs\SwingIO.java:53: cannot resolve symbol
symbol  : variable JOptionPane 
location: class SwingIO
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Hello, " + name + "!" + "\n" +
                ^
4 errors

Tool completed with exit code 1

Also i should have mentioned that i am useing the same compiler on my laptop that i us at school "Textpad". My school has Java 2 SDK ,SE v1.4.2_12 installed. I have that and J2SE Runtime Enviroment 5.0 update 6.

Any advise?

There is nothing wrong with your program nor your compiler. It is only that you forgot to include this statement:

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

That is why the compiler doesn't recognise JOptionPane function.

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