Cannot resolve symbol

[drunkpanda]

recently, i bought a textbook call "Objects first with java" for self study. at the chapter 7, design a "Command Line Game" and a exercise ask me to put more functions in the game, as i do so i encounter many problems, and one of the problem as sohowing below, i wonder if anybody can help me

when i add these two codes :

Item textbook = new Item("this is a Java textbook",5);
office.addItem("Textbook",textbook);

the complier tell me:
Cannot resolve symbol constructor Item (java.jang.string,int)

can somebody please tell me what wrong with it thank you very much
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public class Game 
{
    private Parser parser;
    private Room currentRoom;
    private Player currentPlayer;
   
   
        
    /**
     * Create the game and initialise its internal map.
     */
    public Game() 
    {
        createRooms();
        parser = new Parser();
        
        currentPlayer = new Player("Mark",currentRoom);
    }

    /**
     * Create all the rooms and link their exits together.
     */
    private void createRooms()
    {
        Room outside, theatre, pub, lab, office, cellar;
      
        // create the rooms
        outside = new Room("outside the main entrance of the Polytechnic");
        theatre = new Room("in a lecture theatre");
        pub = new Room("in the campus pub");
        lab = new Room("in a computing lab");
        office = new Room("in the computing admin office");
        cellar = new Room("in the cellar");
        // initialise room exits
        outside.setExit("east", theatre);
        outside.setExit("south", lab);
        outside.setExit("west", pub);

        theatre.setExit("west", outside);

        pub.setExit("east", outside);

        lab.setExit("north", outside);
        lab.setExit("east", office);
        

        office.setExit("west", lab);
        office.setExit("down", cellar);
        cellar.setExit("up", office);
        currentRoom = outside;  // start game outside
        
        // add items 
        Item textbook = new Item("this is a Java textbook",5);
        office.addItem("Textbook",textbook);
    }

[I]some other methods omitted [/I]

Code tags added. -Narue
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[stupidenator]

Where is your Item class?

[drunkpanda]

sorry i am just new and i am not sure what might make a good post

item class
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import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Iterator;


public class Item
{
    private String description;
    private String name;
    private int weight;
    private boolean moveable;


    /**
     * Constructor for objects of class Item.
     */
    public Item(String myDescription, String myName, int myWeight, boolean itemMoveable) 
    {
        this.description = myDescription;
        this.name = myName;
        this.weight = myWeight;
        this.moveable = itemMoveable;       
    }

    /**
     * Return the description of the item (the one that was defined
     * in the constructor).
     */
    public String getDescription()
    {
        return description;
    }
    
    /**
     * Return the name of the item (the one that was defined
     * in the constructor).
     */
    public String getName()
    {
        return name;
    }
    
    public boolean isMoveable()
    {
        return (moveable == false);
    }
    
    /**
     * Return the weight of the item 
     */
    public int getWeight()
    {
        return weight;
    }
    
}

Code tags added. -Narue

[jwenting]

Well, you don't have a constructor matching the parameter list you're using when you try to create an Item.
That's why you get that error, the compiler cannot find a symbol (meaning a reference to something) with the required signature in the Item class.

[stupidenator]

in the Item class constructor, you have
public Item(String myDescription, String myName, int myWeight, boolean itemMoveable)
... you're asking for 2 Strings, an int, and a boolean... but then when you construct the Item in the game code, you are only sending it one String, and an int.. they both need to match.