Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

iOS Object-Oriented Swift Complex Data Structures Custom Initializers

Tanya Mila
Tanya Mila
179 Points

I can't figure out how to create a value for the description property

I'm done with the first part of the challenge, assigning values to the first four properties but am stuck on the description property with a string representation. Do I need to create a new constant outside of the function?

structs.swift
struct RGBColor {
  let red: Double
  let green: Double
  let blue: Double
  let alpha: Double

  let description: String

  // Add your code below
    init(red: Double, green: Double, blue: Double, alpha: Double) {
        self.red   = red
        self.green = green
        self.blue  = blue
        self.alpha = alpha
    }
}

let value = RGBColor(red: 86.0, green: 191.0, blue: 131.0, alpha: 1.0)

1 Answer

Matt Skelton
Matt Skelton
4,548 Points

Hey Tanya,

Good job with your init method, however, you don't need to worry about creating a variable to hold a colour value.

Instead, within your init method after you've assigned your values, you want to assign a string to your description variable. You'll need to use string interpolation in order to produce an output similar to the following:

"red: 86.0, green: 191.0, blue: 131.0, alpha: 1.0"

Hope that helps!

Tanya Mila
Tanya Mila
179 Points

Thank you so much! It worked :)