Question

I have a class Player that extends Entity:

Player:

public class Player extends Entity {
    public Player(char initIcon, int initX, int initY) {
        //empty constructor
    }
...

Entity:

public Entity(char initIcon, int initX, int initY) {
        icon = initIcon;
        x = initX;
        y = initY;
    }
...

This is pretty much what you’d expect, but on compile I get an error that reads

Player.java:2: error: constructor Entity in class Entity cannot be applied to the given types:
    public Player(char initIcon, int initX, int initY)
required: char,int,int
found: no arguments
reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length

But it clearly does have the required arguments. What’s going on here? Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to initialize super class by call its constructor with super

public Player(char initIcon, int initX, int initY) {
    super(initIcon, initX, initY);
}