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Samantha Mar
691 Pointsjava.lang.String error ?
In my Activity class: int color = mColorWheel.getColor(); and in my ColorWheel class: return colorAsInt;
are red squiggly lined and I get the error "java.lang.String error" for both, and the compiler says "required: int"
Please help! :)
1 Answer
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherSamantha;
Welcome to Treehouse!
Without seeing all of your code this is just an educated guess.
You are asking your variable color, which you are declaring as type int to be assigned to a String object. That would be like saying 5 = purple. In the world of computers that will typically give you an error because they are different types. There is a method, which Ben talks about in the video around the 4:05 mark which lets you convert a color into an int value, parseColor().
The parseColor() method takes a hexadecimal String argument, or a few actual colors as strings (see the documentation) and then returns an integer value of the color. Perhaps in your Activity class you are missing that method in your line of code?
Post back if you are still stuck or have questions.
Happy coding,
Ken