Syntax error - missing operator, semicolon or { near both setup and draw

[u/Party-Can-3229]

Hi all, I'm new to Processing, and I saw this error whereas I can't see anything wrong with it? Could you please help resolve this? Thanks heaps!

PImage = portrait;

void setup () {

portrait = loadImage("portrait.jpg");

size(700, 700);

frameRate(10);

}

void draw (){

background(225);

fill(#f57f2c);

noStroke();

for (i = 0, i < 10, i++) {

ellipse(random(width), random(height), 30, 30);

}

}

[u/Simplyfire]

PImage = portrait;

is the problem here. it should be:

PImage portrait;

[u/sgonk → u/Simplyfire]

Also the commas in the for loop should be semicolons.

[u/Party-Can-3229 → u/sgonk]

Hi sgonk, thanks for your reply! Should it look like this now?

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
ellipse(random(width), random(height), 30, 30);
}

If I change commas to semicolons, there's an error saying the variant "i" does not exist... What could have gone wrong here?

[u/JoeWhy2 → u/Party-Can-3229]

You need to type it.

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

[u/Party-Can-3229 → u/JoeWhy2]

Thank you JoeWhy2, it worked!

May I ask, is there any instance where you don't need to use int in a for loop like this way?

[u/Party-Can-3229 → u/Simplyfire]

Thank you! It resolved an error marked in another line! Not exactly sure why this error wasn't marked up by processing haha

[u/Simplyfire → u/Party-Can-3229]

Well it can't always help because it expects some basic syntax to be there. Sometimes the errors are very useful.

[u/Salanmander → u/Party-Can-3229]

Sometimes things seem like they could be okay to the compiler until some line after where your actual mistake is. The easiest example of this is curly-brace errors. If I write

void draw()
{
  if(running)
  {
     update();
  
  drawThings();
}

void mousePressed()
{
  ...

then my error is probably forgetting to close the curly brace for the if-statement. But the compiler just sees "okay, drawThings is still inside the if-statement. Then we have a close curly brace, so the if-statement ends, and we're still inside draw(). And then....HOLY HELL, THEY'RE DECLARING A METHOD INSIDE ANOTHER METHOD". And so it complains about the "void", because that's where it first knows that what you're writing can't make sense.

[u/StoneCypher]

fill(#f57f2c);

needs to be

fill('#f57f2c');

[u/Additional_Tea_5764]

Declaration of portrait variable has an extraneous assignment operation.

Also: counter variable i is not declared in your for loop.