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Re: Invalid Method Signature

Posted by Brian Sanders on November 26, 2001 at 5:47 PM

> why am i getting this message ???
> 
> (THE FAULT IS IN THE NEXT LINE)
>         stenaFerry.engageDrive(1);

The code you've posted will only work if the class carFerry has an overloaded method called engageDrive().

This means that there should be methods with the following signatures:

void engageDrive();

void engageDrive(int gear);

If you don't have both those methods, the above code won't compile.