Thread: JAVA OOP- Driver and Methods will not play nice together- WHY?!?!

Once again, OOP is determined to keep me up all night

Here are my methods

/****************************************************************
* Pyramid.java
* Jenn Stanek
*
* This program models the calculations for the height,
* volume and surface aresa of a tetrahedron simulation program.
***************************************************************/
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class Pyramid
{
	Scanner stdIn = new Scanner(System.in);
	private double edge;           // pyramid's common edge value
	 //*****************************************************************
	 // prompts user for edge value and assigns it to the edge instance variable
	   public void initialize()
	  {
	  System.out.println("Enter a value for the pyramid's edges: ");
	  edge = stdIn.nextDouble();
	  System.out.printf("Edge length = %d.3/n", edge);
      }
 
//*****************************************************************
 
   public void setEdge()
     {
		this.edge = edge;
     }  // end setEdge
 
//*****************************************************************
 
    public void printPyramidData()  // calculates and prints pyramid data
    {
		double height = ((Math.sqrt(2/3))*edge);
		System.out.printf ("Height = %d.3", height);
		double volume =((Math.sqrt(2))/12)*(Math.pow(edge,3));
		System.out.printf ("Volume = %d.3", volume);
		double surfaceArea =(Math.sqrt(3))*(Math.pow(edge,2));
		System.out.printf ("Surface Area = %d.3", surfaceArea);
	}
 
 
//******************************************************************
 
} // end class Pyramid

They have to work with this driver

/***************************************
* PyramidDriver.java
* John Dean
*
* This is the driver for the Pyramid class.
***************************************/
 
public class PyramidDriver
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    Pyramid pyramid;
    pyramid = new Pyramid();
 
    pyramid.initialize();
    pyramid.printPyramidData();
    pyramid.setEdge(4);
    pyramid.printPyramidData();
  } // end main
} // end class PyramidDriver

And I get this error

C:\Users\Jennifer\Documents\school\PyramidDriver.java:17: error: method setEdge in class Pyramid cannot be applied to given types;
    pyramid.setEdge(4);
           ^
  required: no arguments
  found: int
  reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
1 error
 
Tool completed with exit code 1

I'm not sure why it won't go back to the setEdge Method. I haven't seen this type of error before and I can't find it in my book. Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

you used the argument 4 when that method requires no arguments

public void setEdge()
{
this.edge = edge;
} // end setEdge

I need it to pass the argument of 4 the second time around in order to accurate calculate the total surface area. You first need to calculate the dimensions of one triangle and then the four inside edges. The first time around, it should use the user entered values, but the second time around, it needs to use the 4. I can't get it to work both ways.

--- Update ---

I was able to fix it by changing it to public void setEdge(double edge) but now I get this error when running

Enter a value for the pyramid's edges:
3
Edge length = Exception in thread "main" java.util.IllegalFormatConversionExcept
ion: d != java.lang.Double
at java.util.Formatter$FormatSpecifier.failConversion (Formatter.java:404
5)
at java.util.Formatter$FormatSpecifier.printInteger(F ormatter.java:2748)

at java.util.Formatter$FormatSpecifier.print(Formatte r.java:2702)
at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:2488)
at java.io.PrintStream.format(PrintStream.java:970)
at java.io.PrintStream.printf(PrintStream.java:871)
at Pyramid.initialize(Pyramid.java:21)
at PyramidDriver.main(PyramidDriver.java:15)
Press any key to continue . . .

--- Update ---

I've also updated my doubles to floats to accomadate the %f but I'm still getting the error and not sure why

can you update that code so it has all the changes you have made so far?

I was able to fix the issues. I was mixing the double and float names for the same variables, I had a mistake in my code where I was doing interger division, and I had named a variable twice (that issue took me the longest to find). I may have made one or two other mistakes that I can't quite remember, but I was able to find them after compiling my program about 50 times.

excellent! happy to hear you could work through the problems