Accessor help needed (I think...- little confussed)

[thomase]

Hi Guys, I'm new to java and I'm struggling a bit this semester as we've introduced using a main file and then a driver file.

At the moment I'm trying to get my head around accessor methods.

I've written this code to convert time in seconds into "hours:minutes:seconds" format.



If in another file I set something (either via a scanner, or just a plan int variable with a value of seconds), how can I send it to the TimeDisplay class to return the correctly formatted time?

Many thanks in advance :)

[thomase]

It's gone off the first past so I assume it's okay to give it a little bump?

[Fubarable]

If all this class is, is a place to hold your small utility or helper method, this is one of the few places where I think it's OK to use static methods: in other words, you can have a public static method that takes an int (or long?) as input and returns a String as output, and then call it as you would any static method -- on the class, not on an object.

[thomase]

If all this class is, is a place to hold your small utility or helper method, this is one of the few places where I think it's OK to use static methods: in other words, you can have a public static method that takes an int (or long?) as input and returns a String as output, and then call it as you would any static method -- on the class, not on an object.

So with that I'd keep what I've got wouldn't I? Then in the main file what would I put? I've had a look on the net for a tutorial, I'm just unsure of how to send the int (not long) from this 'main' file to the TimeDisplay class and then from there, to output it back in the 'main' file.

I'd love a little code snipit or a link to a site where with a bit of work I could decode some code that would do this. Problem at the moment is I see websites and I'm not sure if they do have relevant code, but I've no problem working out how to do it from a code.

[Fubarable]

similar to what you have, except for no constructor and the method is static and takes an int parameter, seconds.

[thomase]

similar to what you have, except for no constructor and the method is static and takes an int parameter, seconds.

hmm, still a little confused I think.

package albumlist;
public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
       int seconds = 23423123;
                
    }
}

Cheers for the help so far! Rep Added :)

[anteup]

// ok in the application class ...
	public static void main(String[] args)
 {
	
		 int seconds = 10001;

               //here you are declaring and instantiating an object   //of the TimeDisplay class and naming it time, you are passing 
// the seconds variable to the paramaterized constructor
		 TimeDisplay time = new TimeDisplay(seconds);

//here you are displaying your output.... by calling the accessor //accessor method displayHrsMinsSecs() on the object reference
//time
		 System.out.println(time.displayHrsMinsSecs());

		
	}

}

[thomase]

Ah, Thank you!! Thinking back now, I actually remember seeing code like this in my lecture notes but didn't fully understand it! Thanks again for the help - I can now use my accessor method :)