Odd error

[ladykrimson]

    public double getTotal(BlurayDVD[] blu) {
        for (int i = 0; i < blu.length; i++) {
[COLOR="Red"][B]            totalValue += blu.value();[/B][/COLOR]
        }
        return totalValue;
    } // end method getTotal

Can anyone tell me why I would get this error:

"operator + cannot be applied to double,value"

on the line that I have made bold and red?

It works just fine in a previous program, but for some reason, it gives me this error now.

[Fubarable]

blu is an array, so how can it have a value method?

[gcalvin]

You probably mean [I]blu.value() and that will only work if the value() method of the BlurayDVD class returns a double. Also, I don't see where totalValue is declared and initialized -- that could be trouble for you too.

-Gary-

[Fubarable]

Yeah, you're right, he/she probably means blu[i].value(). He/She needs to give a lot more information for this question to be answerable.

[ladykrimson]

blu is an item from an ArrayList created from a subclass called BlurayDVD(); therefore it should have the . I did declare totalValue as a double.

I figured it out. There was no method called "value". It was actually called "titleValue."

Thanks for your suggestions!

[Fubarable]

blu is an item from an ArrayList created from a subclass called BlurayDVD(); therefore it should have the . I did declare totalValue as a double.

I figured it out. There was no method called "value". It was actually called "titleValue."

Thanks for your suggestions!

That's a mighty funky ArrayList as it has a length property!?

In the future please post real code, please post actual error messages. sigh..

[ladykrimson]

Yeah, you're right, he/she probably means blu[i].value(). He/She needs to give a lot more information for this question to be answerable.

:confused:

From one extreme to the other... :D

I wasn't certain how much of the code to include, because I didn't want anyone to go blind reading it. :p

[Fubarable]

:confused:

From one extreme to the other... :D

I wasn't certain how much of the code to include, because I didn't want anyone to go blind reading it. :p

It is an art, deciding how much to include, but the worst thing you can do is post misleading code. The code above shows blu as an array (arrays have length properties, length does not), and then tries to call a method value on the array itself which won't even compile much less run. And then you say it's not an array but an array list? So you can see how that would serve only to confuse us and make your question unanswerable.