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Thread: Arraylist help

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    Default Arraylist help

    I'm kind of new at programming, and I'm trying to create an arraylist to hold 6 or 7 colors that can be used in a for loop so that they can be assigned like color(0), color(1), so that in my loop, I can make it say setColor(color(loop)). Loop is my int from my for loop. Basically, each time it runs the loop, I want the color to be the next one in the arraylist.

    for (int loop = 0; loop <= 5; loop++){
        		myPen.setColor(color(loop));
        	}

    Is this possible?


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    Default Re: Arraylist help

    ArrayList colors = new ArrayList();
    //add all colors to the list
    for ( int i = 0; i < colors.size(); i++ ){
        myPen.setColor(colors.get(i));
    }

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    Default Re: Arraylist help

    Well, I've been trying since you've posted that, and haven't been able to make it work. I'm not sure if I added the colors to the arraylist correctly, and "myPen.setColor(colors.get(i));" doesn't seem to want to work.

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    Default Re: Arraylist help

    Please post the code and errors you are receiving, both of which are a wealth of information to help solve your problem

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    Basically it makes a circle centered in a hexagon, but once I figure out how to do this arraylist, I woulld like to make the sides keep changing colors in a pattern for a little bit. I can figure that part out, I just need to figure this out.

    import gpdraw.*;
    import java.awt.Color;
    	import java.util.ArrayList;
     
    public class Benzene {
    	private DrawingTool myPen;
        private SketchPad myPap;
     
        public Benzene(){
        	myPap = new SketchPad(800,800);
        	myPen = new DrawingTool(myPap);
        }
     
        public void draw(){
        	Color cBlue = new Color(0,0,255);
        	Color cRed = new Color(255,0,0);
        	Color cGreen = new Color(0,255,0);
        	Color cPurple = new Color(255,0,255);
        	Color cCyan = new Color(0,255,255);
        	Color cYellow = new Color(255,255,0);
        	Color cOrange = new Color(255,132,0);
        	myPen.setColor(cOrange);
        	myPen.setWidth(4);
        	myPen.drawCircle(100);
        	myPen.up();
        	myPen.move(-70,120);
        	myPen.down();
        	myPen.move(70,120);
     
    		ArrayList colors = new ArrayList();
    		colors.add(cBlue);
    		colors.add(cRed);
    		colors.add(cGreen);
    		colors.add(cPurple);
    		colors.add(cCyan);
    		colors.add(cYellow);
    		colors.add(cOrange);
     
        	for (int i = 0; i <= colors.size(); i++){
        		myPen.setColor(colors.get(i));
    			myPen.turnRight(60);
        		myPen.forward(140);
        	}
     
     
        }
    }

    setColor(java.awt.Color) in gpdraw.DrawingTool cannot be applied to (java.lang.Object)




    I have a feeling that I added the colors incorrectly.

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    Default Re: Arraylist help

    ArrayList is generic, so if you do not define the objects put in, you must do so when you take them out. Solution 1 is to cast the object when you get it from the list
    myPen.setColor((Color)colors.get(i));
    Solution 2 - which provides compile time checks - is to use generics
    ArrayList<Color> colors = new ArrayList<Color>();

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    Default Re: Arraylist help

    Hi TreeChopper,

    you need to replace

    for (int i = 0; i <= colors.size(); i++){
    myPen.setColor(colors.get(i));
    with

    for (int i = 0; i <= colors.size(); i++){
    myPen.setColor((Color)(colors.get(i)));
    because get() method will return Object class object which we need to cast explicitly to get our required object.

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    Default Re: Arraylist help

    Thank you very much, it works exactly how I wanted it to.

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