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ronald greti
ronald greti
800 Points

Adding a Pop of Color - Cannot invoke 'colorsArray' with an argument of type '(Int)'

I am following your course in the tutorial Adding a Pop of Color wherein I am following your instructions to add the following line…

             return colorsArray(randomIndex)

but Xcode flags this as an error? ...

             Cannot invoke colorsArray with an argument of type (Int)

Can you help?

//
//  ColorWheel.swift
//  FunFacts
//
//  Created by ronald greti on 3/28/15.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Treehouse. All rights reserved.
//

import Foundation
import UIKit

struct ColorWheel {

    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // stored propeties...
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    let colorsArray = [
        UIColor(red: 90/255.0, green: 187/255.0, blue: 181/255.0, alpha: 1.0),  //teal color
        UIColor(red: 222/255.0, green: 171/255.0, blue: 66/255.0, alpha: 1.0),  //yellow color
        UIColor(red: 223/255.0, green: 86/255.0, blue: 94/255.0, alpha: 1.0),   //red color
        UIColor(red: 239/255.0, green: 130/255.0, blue: 100/255.0, alpha: 1.0), //orange color
        UIColor(red: 77/255.0, green: 75/255.0, blue: 82/255.0, alpha: 1.0),    //dark color
        UIColor(red: 105/255.0, green: 94/255.0, blue: 133/255.0, alpha: 1.0),  //purple color
        UIColor(red: 85/255.0, green: 176/255.0, blue: 112/255.0, alpha: 1.0),  //green color
    ]

    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // methods...
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    func randomColor() -> UIColor {

        var unsignedArrayCount = UInt32(colorsArray.count)
        var unsignedRandomNumber = arc4random_uniform(unsignedArrayCount)
        var randomIndex = Int(unsignedRandomNumber)

        return colorsArray(randomIndex)
    }
}

2 Answers

Hi Ronald,

I think you need to use square brackets to access the item at a position in an array.

So, return colorsArray[randomIndex] should work OK.

Give that a whirl and let me know if it works!

Steve.

ronald greti
ronald greti
800 Points

Oops! you are right, it was just a question of using [] instead of (). I missed that. The msg from Xcode was too cryptic for me to get that. Thanks for answering such a trivial mistake.

Yeah - the error messages are pretty obscure at times!

Glad it worked!

Steve.