overriding help

[Rob Michaelson]

Hello,
I need to overide the AViewA (differnet class than the one below called MyScene) with get and set Color> (public Color getColor() ) and >(public void setColor(Color c)).

import dLibrary.AView; 
import dLibrary.ARectangle; 
import dLibrary.AUpTriangle; 
 
// Allow short name access to java.awt.Color 
import java.awt.Color; 
 
/** 
 * Draws a MyHouse object for MyScene. 
 *  
 * @author Rob Michaelson 
 * @version July 18, 2003 
 */ 
public class MyHouse extends AView 
{ 
// instance variables 
    private AUpTriangle theRoof; 
    private ARectangle theHouse; 
    private ARectangle theDoor; 
 
    /** 
     * Constructor for objects of class MyHouse. 
     * This creates a MyHouse object at the specified 
     * location 
     * @param x the x-coordinate for the object 
     * @param y the y-coordinate for the object 
     */ 
    public MyHouse(int x, int y) 
    { 
        // Specify the constructor for the superclass 
        super(x, y, 120, 100); 
         // Create the roof object 
        theRoof = new AUpTriangle(0, 0, 120, 40); 
        // Set the characteristics of the roof 
        theRoof.setToFill(); 
        theRoof.setColor(new Color(0x99, 0x33, 0x00)); 
        // Place the roof in the MyHouse object 
        theRoof.place(this); 
        // Create the house object 
        theHouse = new ARectangle(10, 40, 100, 60); 
        // Set the characteristics of the house 
        theHouse.setToFill(); 
        theHouse.setColor(Color.blue); 
        // Place the house in the MyHouse object 
        theHouse.place(this); 
        // Create the door object 
        theDoor = new ARectangle(48, 50, 24, 50); 
        // Set the characteristics of the door 
        theDoor.setToFill(); 
        theDoor.setColor(new Color(0x99, 0x66, 0x33)); 
        // Place the door in the MyHouse object 
        theDoor.place(this); 
    } 
    /** 
     * This is an overload for the constructor. It takes 
     * three parameters 
     */ 
    public MyHouse(int x, int y, java.awt.Color cyan) 
    { 
        
    } 
// <<<<< SET/GET HERE????? I get a "missing method body error">>>>>>>>
     } 

Thanks
Rob
I am not sure how it works or where to put it

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Note that I have no idea whatsoever what "dlibrary.AViewA" is, although I don't think I need to to answer this.
Right before the closing brace, you want to have something like

public void setColor(Color c) {
 // Do whatever the parent does
 super.setColor(c);
 // Add your own code here.
}
public Color getColor() {
  // Do some extra work? Then...
  return super.getColor();
}

You don't say -why- you want to override these methods, so I can't tell you what to put in place of the "// More code here" comments, but it's a start.

[Rob Michaelson]

Thank you for your reply!
AViewA is a typo sorry
would my own code be something like changing the ARectangle or ARectangle.setColor (rgb); ??
Rob

[Rob Michaelson]

Hello again
so far I have this override:

 public void setColor(Color rgb)         {         super.setColor(rgb);         theHouse.setColor (rgb);        theDoor.setColor (rgb);        theRoof.setColor (rgb);        }        public Color getColor()         {          return super.getColor();        }// in the MyHouse scene             

and this in MyScene (which takes all the objects but the house isn't overriding with the red color
MyHouse theHouse;        theHouse = new MyHouse(100, 100);        theHouse.setColor(java.awt.Color.red);

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Rob