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Thread: Urgent! - How To Increment Value

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    Exclamation Urgent! - How To Increment Value

    Hi,

    In need of some help as I have been playing around all day trying to get this to increase the value of number by one after each new runner is added. Anybody able to help me get the value of number to increase after each record is added?

    public class Runner 
    {
    /* static variables */
     
     
    /* instance variables */
     
       private int number;       // runner's number
       private String name;      // runner's name
       private String ageGroup;  // standard, junior or senior
       private int time;         // runner's marathon time in minutes
       private int nextNumber;   // next avaliable number
     
     
       /**
        * Default constructor for objects of class Runner.
        */
       public Runner()
       {
          super();
          this.name = "";
          this.ageGroup = "standard";
          this.time = 0;
          this.nextNumber = 1;
     
          this.number = this.nextNumber + 1;
     
     
        }
     
    /* instance methods */
     
        //Only those accessor methods that you will need have been included
     
       /**
        * Returns the receiver's number.
        */
       public int getNumber()
       {
          return this.number;
       }
     
     
       /**
        * Sets the receiver's name.
        */
       public void setName(String aName)
       {
          this.name = aName;
       }
     
     
       /**
        * Returns the receiver's name.
        */
       public String getName()
       {
          return this.name;
       }
     
     
       /**
        * Sets the receiver's ageGroup.
        */
       public void setAgeGroup(String group)
       {
          this.ageGroup = group;
       }
     
       /**
        * Returns the receiver's ageGroup.
        */
       public String getAgeGroup()
       {
          return this.ageGroup;
       }
     
     
       /**
        * Sets the receiver's time.
        */
       public void setTime(int aTime)
       {
          this.time = aTime;
       }
     
     
       /**
        * Returns the receiver's time.
        */
       public int getTime()
       {
          return this.time;
       }
     
    }

    Any help would be great!

    Cheers.
    Last edited by stevenroberts; May 6th, 2014 at 11:31 AM.


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    Default Re: Increment Value

    This approach isn't going to work because each instance will have its own copy of number and nextNumber.

    You can either use a static variable that is shared between every instance, or you can pass the number into the constructor.
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    Default Re: Increment Value

    Hi Kevin,

    Sorry if this seems like a silly question but how would I do that?

    Cheers,
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    Thumbs down Urgent - How to increase value

    Hi,

    I am having real problems being able to do this as I have spent two days on this and have not got anywhere with it.

    What I want to do is take the constructor to set the number instance variable of a newly created Runner object to the value of the class variable nextNumber and then increment the value held by nextNumber by 1, so that it will hold the number of the next Runner object to be created.

    [code/Java]
    public class Runner
    {

    /* instance variables */

    private static int number; // runner's number
    private String name; // runner's name
    private String ageGroup; // standard, junior or senior
    private int time; // runner's marathon time in minutes
    public static int nextNumber; // next avaliable number


    /**
    * Default constructor for objects of class Runner.
    */
    public Runner()
    {
    super();
    this.name = "";
    this.ageGroup = "standard";
    this.time = 0;
    this.nextNumber = 1;

    this.number = nextNumber;
    this.nextNumber = number + 1;

    }

    /* instance methods */

    /**
    * Returns the receiver's number.
    */
    public int getNumber()
    {
    return this.number;
    }

    public static int getNextNumber()

    {
    return Runner.nextNumber;
    }

    /**
    * Sets the receiver's name.
    */
    public void setName(String aName)
    {
    this.name = aName;
    }


    /**
    * Returns the receiver's name.
    */
    public String getName()
    {
    return this.name;
    }


    /**
    * Sets the receiver's ageGroup.
    */
    public void setAgeGroup(String group)
    {
    this.ageGroup = group;
    }

    /**
    * Returns the receiver's ageGroup.
    */
    public String getAgeGroup()
    {
    return this.ageGroup;
    }


    /**
    * Sets the receiver's time.
    */
    public void setTime(int aTime)
    {
    this.time = aTime;
    }


    /**
    * Returns the receiver's time.
    */
    public int getTime()
    {
    return this.time;
    }

    }
    [/code]

    Anybody know how to get it to do this lost is an understatement as the moment!

    Thanks.

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    Default Re: Urgent! - How To Increment Value

    Since you weren't specific, for the first approach Kevin recommended, review the tutorial Understanding Class Members. For the second, what don't you understand about passing a number to a constructor? Something like:
        // this is a constructor that accepts the parameter value
        public MyClass( int value )
        {
            // assigns MyClass.value to the parameter value
            this.value = value;
     
            // the rest as needed
        }


    --- Update ---

    Please post your code correctly and don't post duplicate topics.

    Duplicate threads merged.

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