this code is ticking me off

[Daren]

can anyone tell me why the code below is full of errors? just when i thought i fixed it i get incompatible types, etc...




import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.text.*;
import java.io.*;
//create a class
public class CoffeeDriver {
final static int SOME_ITEMS = 5;

public static void main(String[] args)
{
DecimalFormat decimal = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
String choiceString = "";
String menuString = "";
String entry = "";
Item[] someItem = new Item[4];

menuString = menuString +someItem + "\n";
System.out.println( "The Coffee House menu is listed below\n"+
"Please choose how you would like to see the items sorted.\n" +
"Sort by name or by Price\n" + "To sort by name type N\n" + "To sort by price type P\n");

System.out.println("Menu");

//Display the items in their original order
for (int i = 3; i <someItem.length; i++) {
someItem[i] = new Item(0);
someItem[i] = new Item(1);
someItem[i] = new Item(2);
someItem[i] = new Item(3);
someItem[i] = new Item(4);
}

printItems(someItem);

// pick the sort type
System.out.print("Enter your choice: ");

// open up standard input
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

String choice = null;
//read the username from the command-line; need to use try/catch with the
// readLine() method
try {
choice = br.readLine();
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("IO error trying to read your choice!");
System.exit(1);
}

System.out.println("your choice was " + choice);

if (choice == 1)
{
priceSort(someItem);
}
else if (choice == 2)
{
nameSort(someItem);
}

printItems(items);
}


public void priceSort(Item[] someItem)
{
Item temp;
int highSubscript = someItem==null?0:someItem.length;
for(int a = 0; a < highSubscript; ++a)
{
for(int b = 0; b < highSubscript - 1; ++b)
{

if(someItem[b].getPrice() > someItem[b + 1].getPrice())
{
temp = someItem[b];
someItem[b] = someItem[b + 1];
someItem[b + 1] = temp;
}
}
}
}

public void nameSort(Item[] someItem)
{
Item temp;
int highSubscript = someItem==null?0:someItem.length;
for(int a = 0; a < highSubscript; ++a)
{
for(int b = 0; b < highSubscript - 1; ++b)
{

if(someItem[b].getName() > someItem[b + 1].getName())
{
temp = someItem[b];
someItem[b] = someItem[b + 1];
someItem[b + 1] = temp;
}
}
}
}


public void printItems(Item[] items)
{
int itemLen = items==null?0:items.length;
for (int i=0; i < itemLen; i++)
{
System.out.println(i + ". " + items[i].getName() + " (" + items[i].getPrice() + ")\n");
}
}
}

[JAMES_911]

what is this code used for? can you be more specific?

[switchblade327]

can anyone tell me why the code below is full of errors? just when i thought i fixed it i get incompatible types, etc...

Hello Daren,

It would be very difficult (or almost impossible) for me to go through your code and find where exactly you are wrong. It would be great if you can provide me the list of error messages (which you got), so that I could manage to explain the correct solution. I hope to hear from you very soon.

[Daren]

its working now ty though i had a friend of mine in the JAVA industry look at it----

I had declared my initial 2 arrays in the wrong class when they should have been in the main class.