Swing Timer will not work in Netbeans

[capt_nemo]

I am working on creating a program on top of the netbeans platform and I am wanting to create a flashing icon in a label to draw the users attention to it. To accomplish this I have been trying to use the javax.swing.Timer to assist in this process. Which I have either A) created an ActionListener with the actionPreformed ActionEvent to pass to the Timer I create with how long to count for. Or B) I created an inner class that impliments ActionListener with the actionPerformed ActionEvent in it. And neither way works because either netbeans will flag the code with several different errors ( most listed below ) or if the code has no flags and I go and type in the name of the Timer and put the period to type start(); it will say that it doesn't exist. And also when I put the period beside the timer name I created it will show the code completion of “new”. Now I didn't write down all the errors, but the main ones are listed below, but I know it isn't anything that I am doing because I have even cut and pasted oracles timer example into the module I am working on and it does the same thing to it. I have all the imports needed as well. I also tried other peoples code that they say works, and again, it doesn't. And I just don't know what else to do because all the knowledge I know says it should be working, all the articles I have read says it should be working, yet netbeans says it doesn't for one reason or another.

errors I have received:
#1) when I type t.start(); to start the timer I created Timer t = new Timer(500, ImageListener); netbeans will flag it and says ( package timer does not exist <identifier> expected )
#2) netbeans will flag Timer t = new Timer(1000, ImageListener ); as an illegal forward reference
#3) I can not figure out how I did it or the exact message, but I also get a flags that will say there is no field and would I like it to create it and that there is no import for that class when the class is inside the module itself.

For reference these are a few of the links to the code examples I cut and pasted to test and got the same errors with as I got with my own code:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/Timer.html
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/Timer.html
http://www.leepoint.net/notes-java/other/10time/20timer.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1006611/java-swing-timer
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/timer/

And if it makes any difference, I have the newest version of netbeans and it is up to date.

[capt_nemo]

No one needs to reply to this, I found the solution on my own.