Very basic question on chat and getplayer

trying to send a text message to a player when he clicks on a sign. So this is very beginner question. I keep getting an error

player.sendTextMessage("Your name is " + player.getName());

error: cannot find symbol variable player

Thanks in advance for not laughing.

Quote from Miwarre

Is the variable player defined somewhere (before being used)? Is it initialized to an actual Player object?

A bit of code context would help..

Well that is right out of the API.. that text is looking for a player but it is the command to get his name.

Quote from Minotorious

as @Miwarre said the whole code snippet of the event method would be helpful in tracking down what is going on in there.

Simple Example from the API with a few changes:

Java

@EventMethod 
public void onObjectInteraction(PlayerObjectInteractionEvent event){ 
    //Get the object definition 
    Definitions.ObjectDefinition def = event.getObjectDefinition(); 
    //Check if the object we're using is a sign 
    if(def.isSign()){ 
        //The sign id is stored as "object info", so we can use it to get the sign object 
        Sign sign = getWorld().getSign(event.getObjectInfoID()); 
        //Always a good idea to check if sign isn't null... 
        if(sign != null){
            //Get the player who triggered the event
            Player player = event.getPlayer();
            //Send the player a text message
            player.sendTextMessage("Your Name is: " + player.getName());
            //Cancel the event, so the player cannot edit the sign (optional) 
            event.setCancelled(true); 
            } 
        } 
    } 
}

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Well that is almost exactly what I am trying to run but when I put that in I get an error on player player = event and player.senttextmessage. The error says cannot find symbol variable player and on the first line variable declarations not allowed here. I took all the stuff out about the sign and tried to just send a chat message and same errors.

Ok well there is stuff that I am fooling around looking at that does not belong in the import but here.. I changed it to a command line but errors are on the exact same command lines Red .. I am using NetBeans

same error as before.

I noticed I have capitalized A .. different from the package.. when I change it I get a different error telling me to create a subclass.

Quote from Minotorious

the difference in capitalisation is fine, if you change the capitalisation there you need to do so by refactoring the code not by just changing the letter from small to caps!

doesn't like either one evt or event.

Wow I used to be to run a compile with errors now I get a no main class error and cant continue

ok sorry to bother you at work

Well I was missing a { bracket after the last if statement start. But I still have the thing wanting me to declare a subclass and wont let me build. Not sure where that suddenly came from.

Not sure how this error showed up. Maybe when listener was implemented not sure.

Well I opened a new project and retyped and linked everything and it built with no errors.. sad thing is it does not work. X/