non-static method create(java.lang.String) cannot be referenced from a static context

[Ap0C552]

I have created a TicTacToe class that has a 2 dimension array as it instanced variable.

It has a create() factory method that takes a string or X and O's, creates a nxn array out of the string, then returns a TicTacToe object made with the array.

I am getting the following error

java:12 non-static method create(java.lang.String) cannot be referenced from a static context
test=TicTacToe.create("X,X, ,O,X,O, ,O,X");

I don't know what id going on because I have modeled this after a similar program that functioned perfectly.

public class A5Q3{
	public static void main (String[]args){

		processGames();

	}

	public static void processGames()
	{

		TicTacToe test;
		test=TicTacToe.create("X,X, ,O,X,O, ,O,X");

		System.out.println(test.checkWinner());



	}

}

class TicTacToe{

	String[][] array;

	public TicTacToe( String[][] array )
	{

		this.array=array;

	}

	public TicTacToe create(String input)
	{
		TicTacToe newTic;
		String[] temp=input.split(",");
		String[][]array;
		int size=0;
		int position=0;

	    size=Math.sqrt(temp.size());
	    array=new String[size][size];


	    for(int i=0; i<size;i++)
	    {

			for(int j=0;j<size;j++)
			{
				array[i][j]=temp[position];
				position++;
			}

		}

		newTic=new TicTacToe(array);
		return newtic;
	}

	//this method checks if there is a row with all the same values and returns a boolean
	public String checkWinner()
	{
		boolean winner;
		String winningChar;
		String firstChar;

		//check rows
		for(int i=0;i<array.length&&winner==false;i++)
		{
			firstChar=array[i][0];

			for(int j=0;j<array.length;j++)
			{
				winner=true;
				if(firstChar!=array[i][j])
				{
					winner=false;
				}
			}

			if(winner)
			{
				winningChar=firstChar;
			}
		}

		//check columns
		for(int i=0;i<array.length&&winner==false;i++)
		{
			firstChar=array[0][i];

			for(int j=0;j<array.length;j++)
			{
				winner=true;
				if(firstChar!=array[j][i])
				{
					winner=false;
				}
			}

			if(winner)
			{
			 winningChar=firstChar;
			}
		}

		//check front diagnal
		for(int i=1;i<array.length&&winner==false;i++)
		{
			winner=true;
			firstChar=array[0][0];

			if(firstChar!=array[i][i])
			{
				winner=false;
			}

			if(winner&&i==array.length-1)
			{
				winningChar=firstChar;
			}

		}

		//check back diagnal
		for(int i=0;i<array.length&&winner==false;i++)
		{

					winner=true;

					if(array[0][array.length-1]!=array[array.length-1-i][i])
					{
						winner=false;
					}

					if(winner&&i==array.length-1)
					{
						winningChar=firstChar;
	                }
		}

	}

public void print()
{
		for(int i=0;i<array.length;i++)
		{

			for(int j=0;j<array.length;j++)
			{
				System.out.println(array[i][j]+" ");
			}

		}

}


}

[Ray Newman]

You need to add the static keyword to the create method in the TicTacToe class if you want to invole it without creating an instance of TicTacToe. So change:

public TicTacToe create(String input)
to
public static TicTacToe create(String input)

There are several other problems that I will leave to you to ponder.
Ray