Ok basically I have my main Method which is where I have initialized an array of objects. I want to access this array, the objects within and the actual methods within the object from within another class. How would I go about doing this???

I keep on coming up with errors.

Here is some of my code to help you...

public static void main(String[]args)

{


//Declare Variables
int menuChoice = 2;
boolean quit = false;

// Init carArry and set variables
Car [] carArray;
carArray = new Car [10];



//Possition In Array Manufact Model E.Size Reg Millage MPG Status
carArray[0] = new Car("Vauxhall", "Corsa", 1.3, "GP 03 CBT", 8123, 35, 'Y');
carArray[1] = new Car("Vauxhall", "Agila", 1.2, "AB 03 FTR", 10045, 38, 'S');
carArray[2] = new Car("Vauxhall", "Agila", 1.0, "FT 01 YUT", 21488, 40, 'N');
carArray[3] = new Car("Vauxhall", "Astra", 1.6, "RT 51 DRE", 15032, 32, 'S');
carArray[4] = new Car("Vauxhall", "Astra", 2.2, "DR 51 KLP", 19933, 25, 'Y');
carArray[5] = new Car("Ford", "Fiesta", 1.0, "GP 53 REW", 4987, 40, 'Y');
carArray[6] = new Car("Ford", "Fiesta", 1.3, "SR 01 BHG", 1997, 35, 'N');
carArray[7] = new Car("Ford", "Mondeo", 1.6, "WE 02 GTY", 17342, 33, 'N');
carArray[8] = new Car("Ford", "Mondeo", 2.0, "QW 52 EWQ", 12345, 25, 'Y');
carArray[9] = new Car("Ford", "Orion", 1.8, "SD 01 TYR", 24459, 28, 'N');
}

Also here is one method from my Car object..

// Read the millage attribute
public double getMillage()

{
return millage;
}


How would I go about accessing this method from another class???

Thanks alot...

As it stands

carArray[7].getMillage(); // getMileage() maybe??

and any other classes will have to be created within the main() section so that the have the scope to access carArray. What errors you getting?

What do you mean by create within the Main() section???

Here is an updated look at the problem...

class hireCar

{
public static void start()

{
System.out.println(" This is the hire car option");
System.out.println ("");
System.out.println (carArray[3].getMillage());
}
}

This is a class that will be put into my program. At the moment I am using it to test accesing data from the array. I run my main method, and then half way through it runs this method from the hireCar class, but when I try and compile it keeps on coming up with the following error.

C:\Documents and Settings\Mr Ben\Desktop\Java 2\hireCar.java:9: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : variable carArray
location: class hireCar
System.out.println (carArray[3].getMillage());

From what I can tell carArray is outside the scope of hireCar so you'd have to create a class that contains carArray that hireCar inherits from or make carArray global or do it something like this

Better still design a dynamic class that holds the all the cars and has methods like get car, add car etc. but you'll still have to take scope into consideration

How do I make carArray global???

You don't really want to make it "global" as such, not good practice. Think of redesigning your classes. I can help later if you're still stuck.

you need to declare your array outside of your main method

you can make this private and use accessor and mutator methods to modify the array from outside of the class