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Posted by Austin Rau
Austin Rau
Courses Plus Student 3,214 Points

Swift FunFacts Help!

I downloaded the project files for the FunFact app to make to compare to my ColorWheel.swift file, because I was getting this error 'UIColor' is not a subtype of NSString' but its still showing the error in the teachers code, please help I'm stuck! :(

6 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
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Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you have a function nested inside your randomColor function

func randomColor() -> UIColor {
        func randomFact() -> String {
            var unsignedArrayCount = UInt32(colorsArray.count)
            var unsignedRandomNumber = arc4random_uniform(unsignedArrayCount)
            var randomNumber = Int(unsignedRandomNumber)

        return colorsArray[randomNumber]
    }
}

remove the nested function heading and brackets

func randomColor() -> UIColor {

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

        return colorsArray[randomNumber]

}
Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
Austin Rau
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return colorsArray[randomNumber] ------ !!!'UIColor' is not a subtype of 'NSString'

Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
Austin Rau
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Downloaded teachers code and still have an Error

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

check the return type of your function. make sure its returning UIColor and not String. Also can you paste in the full function

Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
Austin Rau
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func randomColor() -> UIColor { func randomFact() -> String { var unsignedArrayCount = UInt32(colorsArray.count) var unsignedRandomNumber = arc4random_uniform(unsignedArrayCount) var randomNumber = Int(unsignedRandomNumber)

    return colorsArray[randomNumber]
}

}

Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
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Austin Rau
Austin Rau
Courses Plus Student 3,214 Points

Thank you, I accidentally copy and pasted that extra function. Oops.