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Expecting Statement or Type

Hi java Gods!

I am getting several errors specfically an expecting statement error on the subclass message and a type identifier error on the "String.valueOf() line"

Any suggestions?

(I am new at Java)

Thanks.....

Here is the code:

import java.awt.*;
public class Spots extends java.applet.Applet {

final int MAXSPOTS = 10;
int xspots[ ] = new int[MAXSPOTS];
int yspots[ ] = new int[MAXSPOTS];
int currspots = 0;

public void init( ) {
setBackground(Color.white);
}
public boolean mouseDown(Event evt, int x, int y) {
if (currspots < MAXSPOTS)
addspots(x,y);
else
returnclass message;
return true;
}
void addspots(int x, int y) {
xspots[currspots] = x;
yspots[currspots] = y;
currspots++;
repaint( );
}
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.setColor(Color.blue);
for (int i= 0; i<currspots; i++) {
g.fillOval(xspots[i] -10, yspots[i] -10,20,20);
}
}
public class message extends Spots {
String message = new String( );
Color g = new Color(250,0,0);
set Font = (new Font("Helvetica",Font.BOLD,36));
g.drawString(String.valueOf(message),5,30);
}
}

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pyramid

ASKER

Hi.

I already have that part of the code working.

I am trying to put a test in the code that will give me a message in a template. When I reach over the limit of spots it will write on the applet "Too Many Spots".

any suggestions?

pyramid

ASKER

Perhaps I can use import to bring new class in and activate it

any comment??

rembo

Here's a new version that should do what you want:

import java.awt.*;
public class Spots extends java.applet.Applet {
final int MAXSPOTS = 10;
int xspots[ ] = new int[MAXSPOTS];
int yspots[ ] = new int[MAXSPOTS];
int currspots = 0;
boolean over = false;
Color errColor;
Font errFont;
String errMsg;
int errX = 0, errY = 0;

public void init( ) {
setBackground(Color.white);
}

public boolean mouseDown(Event evt, int x, int y) {
if (currspots < MAXSPOTS)
addspots(x,y);
else {
errX = x;
errY = y;
error("Too many spots!");
}

return true;
}

public void error(String s)
{
errMsg = s;
errColor = new Color(250,0,0);
errFont = (new Font("Helvetica",Font.BOLD,36));
over = true;
repaint();
}

void addspots(int x, int y) {
xspots[currspots] = x;
yspots[currspots] = y;
currspots++;
repaint( );
}

public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.setColor(Color.blue);
for (int i= 0; i<currspots; i++) {
g.fillOval(xspots[i] -10, yspots[i] -10,20,20);
}

if (over) {
g.setColor(errColor);
g.setFont(errFont);
g.drawString(errMsg, errX, errY);
}
}

}

pyramid

ASKER

Thank you for helping me! Your code was very enlightening. I knew there was an issue of how Java used boolean. It did confuse me.

Again

Thanks.....