I suspect the problem could be with return value of
myclass.getSomeInt(). Ensure that it returns an int
value. Ensure also that all numbers next to 'case' are
constants or constant  expressions. No variables or
expressions involving vairbales are allowed next to
'case'.

Your thinking is right - a switch  with a constant  required at that point would
be useless.

No, it's not meant to be a constant. The items in the "case" lines need to be
constants, of course.

Are you sure it's the switch line  it doesn't like? Compilers can get their
error messages a bit out of step sometimes.

You've obviously posted an indicative bit of code, not the real thing. I think
it might be better to post the real code.

Because I had to rush the project for a deadline, I rewrote it with if
then else statement.

I might have misread the error  message line  number and it might very
well be the case  statements that is throwing the error.

In my original code the case statements did not use a constant  by
itself. However, it was using a public static final constant integer.

case ToolBar.OPENFILE:
case ToolBar.SAVEFILE:

public class ToolBar{
public static final int OPENFILE=0;
public static final int SAVEFILE=1;
}


Looks like the above is not legal even though the variable is final?

Before handling the expression  in teh statement.Convert that to int value and
pass it to the switch.

You will be getting this error  when you try to use
some expression  or variable next to case:. See
following code for more clarifications.

class SwitchTest
{
static int x=0;
private static int getSomeInt()
{
return 2;
}

public static void main(String str[])
{
switch (getSomeInt()){
//case x: gives same error.
case: 1 // works fine.
System.out.println(1);
break;
case 2:
System.out.println(2);
break;
default:
System.out.println("default");
}


}
}