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road YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Syntax error?? Apr 10th, 2010, 3:29pm   Hi, can anyone help me, please? While I was writing a code with processing, I got an syntax error: syntax error on token "*", invalid assignmentoperator site Pixel * rangeX_l; Pixel * rangeX_r; Pixel is a class that written by me.

Giles Senior Member Offline Posts: 252	Re: Syntax error?? Reply #1 - Apr 10th, 2010, 4:47pm   I guess because you can't multiply a class name by something. Unless you are trying to declare a pointer like in C++? Pointers like this don't exist in Java.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Syntax error?? Reply #2 - Apr 11th, 2010, 1:27am   Indeed looks like C++ code for me... You don't need pointers in Java, variables holding classes are actually holding only a reference to the class' instance, so are already pointers.

road YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: Syntax error?? Reply #3 - Apr 11th, 2010, 7:57am   Yes,I thought the same way of writing codes as c++ will work here.Anyway,thanks very much for you all.