Question

I have a private access error to do with the variable “totalFloat”. However I have been referencing and using methods from the same class without this problem.

Is there a general way to get around a private access error in this case?

public static void writeHtmlFile() {
  double contentsChangeDraw;

  String ChangeDrawer = "ChangeFloat.html";
  try {
    PrintWriter outputStream = new PrintWriter(ChangeDrawer); 
    contentsChangeDraw=cd.getTotalFloat(totalFloat); 

    // totalFloat has private access in ChangeDrawer, which means I am
    // unable to use the method to calculate the array that needs to be written  

    outputStream.println(contentsChangeDraw); 
    outputStream.close(); 
    System.out.println("The contents of the ChangeDrawer have been written to a file");
  } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();      
  }       
}

Answer 1

I bet totalFloat has a declaration like this:

private int totalFloat; // or double, or boolean, or something else

You can not access it from a static method because it’s a member variable. Make it

private static int totalFloat; // or double, or boolean, or something else

to access it (or change your method writeHtmlFile() to not being static).