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iOS Object-Oriented Swift Complex Data Structures Custom Initializers

Posted by Manik Mehta
Manik Mehta
Courses Plus Student 2,729 Points

what am i doing wrong?

what am i doing wrong in this code?

structs.swift 
struct RGBColor {
  let red: Double
  let green: Double
  let blue: Double
  let alpha: Double

  let description: String

  // Add your code below
func namez() {

description = "red: \(red), green: \(green), blue: \(blue), alpha: \(alpha)" 

  }
}

RGBColor(red: 86.0, green: 191.0, blue: 131.0, alpha: 1.0)

1 Answer

Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points
Jeff McDivitt
Jeff McDivitt
23,970 Points

I recommend going back through the videos on it seems you are confusing methods with initialization. You need to create a custom initializer:

struct RGBColor {
  let red: Double
  let green: Double
  let blue: Double
  let alpha: Double

  let description: String

  // Add your code below

  init(red:Double, green: Double, blue: Double, alpha: Double){
  self.red = red
  self.green = green
  self.blue = blue
  self.alpha = alpha
  self.description = ("red: \(red), green: \(green), blue: \(blue), alpha: \(alpha)")

  }
}