Programming Forums - Help with object arrays

hey all, im trying to learn java and im having some trouble grasping arrays pointing to objects. All of my programs fail to compile with the same "cannot resolve symbol" error. I made a simplified script to show you what I am talking about. It gives me the symbol error and points to uno[count].theThing(). This would be the same in all my other programs regardless of the object name. I can't figure this out!!



class test {

public static void main(String[] args) {

int x=3; // the number of spots in the array

int x1; // a copy

theThing[] uno; // declare the array

uno = new theThing[x]; //give 3 spots to array

x1 = x; //copy x

while (x1>0) {

uno[x1] = new theThing();        //make the objects

x1--;



}// end while



tester(x); //go to the method

System.exit(0);



}// end main



static void tester(int count) {

while (count>0) {

System.out.println(uno[count].theThing()); //calls to theThing for theNumber

count--;

}// end while



}// end tester





}// end class test





class theThing {

int theNumber = 77;

int theThing() {

return theNumber;

}// end theNumber



}//end theThing