Inheritance

Question

i used the super class get method in subclass and passed it as an argument to the subclass method to calculate x and y values because the data of the supercalss are declared private but when i complied my program complilation errors are coming in the method calMinx() and calMiny()
errors are illegal start of type,identifier expected
import java.awt.Window.*;
import java.awt.Graphics.*;
public class MyOval extends MyShape{
private int x;
private int y;
private double width;
private double height;
MyOval(){
super();
this.x = 0;
this.y = 0;
this.width = 0.0;
this.height = 0.0;
MyOval(int x1,int y1,int x2,int y2,int x,int y,double width,double height){
super(x1,y1,x2,y2);
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
this.width = width;
this.height = height;
public int calMinx(int super.getx1(),int super.getx2())//errors are coming at this point
if((x1 < x2) && (x2 > x1))
int x = x1;
return x;
public int calMiny(int super.gety1(),int super.gety2())//errors are coming at this point
if((y1 < y2) && (y2 > y1))
int y = y1;
return y;
void calWidth(int super.getx1(),int super.getx2()){
double width = (x2 - x1);
System.out.println("the width is " + width);
void calHeight(int super.gety1(),int super.gety2()){
double height = (y2 - y1);
System.out.println("the height is :" + height);
public void drawOval(int x,int y,double width,double height){
System.out.println("print the values :" + x, + y, + width, + height);
public void draw(Graphics g){}
}

Answer 1

The parameters in a method are there so you can pass values into that method. You cannot make a call to a different method in the parameter list. If you need values in your method that are retrieved from another method then make those method calls inside the body of your method.
public void myMethod() {
    // make method calls here
}