Calling accessors

[incog03]

Hi guys, im completely stuck on this, how do i call an accessor method to deal with user input? Just started the other week

KeyboardInput.readDouble("Enter Radius: ");

// accessor methods
public Balloon()
{
}

public Balloon(String Bname, double Bradius, int BnumBalloon)
{
name = Bname;
radius = Bradius;
numBalloon = BnumBalloon;
}

// constructors
public double getRadius()
{
return radius;
}


I'm trying to call the getRadius constructor ? or the balloon accessor?

I've had a little more experience in c++, so i guess what I would have done for c++ is getRadius() = KeyboardInput.readDouble("Enter Radius: ");
I've spent a whiles trying different ways of doing this but yeah. If anyone could take a look, would be much appreciated.

[Fubarable]

getRadius() is not a constructor. The constructor is Balloon(...) as the constructor has the same name as the class and does not have a return type (not even void).

getRadius is an accessor method, and is called by first creating a Balloon object then calling the accessor on the object:

Balloon myBalloon = new Balloon("My Balloon", 20.0, 5);
double radius = myBalloon.getRadius(); // call accessor here and place into variable
System.out.println("the radius is: " + radius);

[Singing Boyo]

It looks like you are trying to reset the radius of the balloon. To do that, you will need a setRadius method:

public void setRadius(double rad){
     radius = rad;
}

If you're still stuck or I'm just not understanding you, try some samples in C++, maybe I can convert them to Java for you, I've done some work with C++ myself.