Comp Sci NEED immediate help with enumerated data types JAVA

[kirkulator]

okay so i have my program basically done, i just have one problem and it has to do with an enumerate data type i created

public enum PaintColor {RED, BLACK, WHITE, BLUE, GREEN, OTHER};

in my class that is UsedCars
im tracking attributes of these objects [used cars]
now...on my TestUsedCars class, I am trying to create the object

but no matter what i type in for paint color it doesn't work:

UsedCars basicCar = new UsedCars("honda", "9d9d9d9d0", 1999, 120000, x , 99.0);

'x' is the paintcolor
by the way, the other values are data fields:
carmake, vin number, year manufactured, odometer mileage, paintcolor, car condition rating

i tried putting in RED like i should be able to...or so i thought but it won't work.

thanks so much guys, i literally know nothing about using enumerated types. they just instructed me to do so and gave me one line of code on how to define the enum...so I am struggling figuring out how to do other things with it.

amanda
edit: by the way its beginning JAVA programming, sorry i didnt specify.

 

[Mark44]

okay so i have my program basically done, i just have one problem and it has to do with an enumerate data type i created

public enum PaintColor {RED, BLACK, WHITE, BLUE, GREEN, OTHER};

in my class that is UsedCars
im tracking attributes of these objects [used cars]
now...on my TestUsedCars class, I am trying to create the object

but no matter what i type in for paint color it doesn't work:

UsedCars basicCar = new UsedCars("honda", "9d9d9d9d0", 1999, 120000, x , 99.0);

'x' is the paintcolor

You should be able to put in RED or BLACK or other value of your enumerated type. When you say "it doesn't work," it would be helpful for you to tell us why it doesn't work. Also, without seeing your code, it's hard to understand what the difficulty is.

Seeing your code would help, as would the text of any compiler error that is generated.

by the way, the other values are data fields:
carmake, vin number, year manufactured, odometer mileage, paintcolor, car condition rating

i tried putting in RED like i should be able to...or so i thought but it won't work.

thanks so much guys, i literally know nothing about using enumerated types. they just instructed me to do so and gave me one line of code on how to define the enum...so I am struggling figuring out how to do other things with it.

amanda
edit: by the way its beginning JAVA programming, sorry i didnt specify.