Need help With program

[Ramkiller1]

Sorry , I am not good at java programming. I have a main class that has a menu system that loops, if 1 is pressed it is passed to another class which then passes the information to another class. So we have 1 main class (MAIN), one second class(SECOND) and 1 third class (THIRD). I have an array in the THIRD that the information that MAIN sends go into. When the loop in MAIN is started over, the program goes to THIRD and overwrite what is made in the array . Can someone please tell me how to fix this

[PhHein]

Have a pointer in THIRD that tells you where to insert into your array. I reckon you always insert at array[0].

It's hard helping without seeing your code.

[Ramkiller1]

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[Ramkiller1]

This is what I am trying to get done but having a hard time (yes i bet its easy for some of you). lol

[PhHein]

Aha, your Company class only knows one Employee, which is overwritten every time. You need a List of Employees in Company.
Look at the UML: Company has an Employee array, which you have forgotten.

[Ramkiller1]

hmm so make the array in company instead , hmm and use get methods from employee to put the information in the array?

[Ramkiller1]

Aha, your Company class only knows one Employee, which is overwritten every time. You need a List of Employees in Company.
Look at the UML: Company has an Employee array, which you have forgotten.

Ok changing the position of the array helps me now thanks. Any other suggestions you can see I am doing wrongly?

[Ramkiller1]

Can you tell me how do I get a return type of an object . On the sheet that has company methods, the return type of getemployee is employee

[PhHein]

Defining Methods (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)

public Employee getEmployee(int employeeID){

[Ramkiller1]

Defining Methods (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Classes and Objects)

public Employee getEmployee(int employeeID){

How is it going to find an employee object with the ID. Sample code will do fine

[PhHein]

Loop over the array and compare IDs.

[Ramkiller1]

Ok, thanks for the info 1 last question, I would think the get Employee would return a string to the company class, how do i make the statement to return it

[PhHein]

Look at table 4! getEmployee returns an Employee. And it's returned to whatever object called it.

[Ramkiller1]

Yea, thats the point, I dont understand, I dont understand what would come out when returned thus I dont no what kinda of return statement to make.

[PhHein]

return employee;
Did you read the method tutorial I've posted before?

[Ramkiller1]

return employee;
Did you read the method tutorial I've posted before?

yes some things were like greek like Passing Reference Data Type Arguments and the first object page was not fully clear for me