Unexpected Token: int in processing - processing

Question

So i'm writing a coloring/ art program and am trying to detect mouseclicks in a box to select color. I have color as a variable and I am using If statements to modify it, however my variable throws an error everytime i run it. the error arises from line 3 'int color = #FFFFFF'
void draw()
{
int color = #FFFFFF;
pen.beginDraw();
if(mousePressed && (mouseX > 5 && mouseX < 95 && mouseY > 5 && mouseY < 95))
{
pen.clear();
}
if(mousePressed && (mouseX > 5 && mouseX < 95 && mouseY > 105 && mouseY < 195))
{
color = #000000;
}
if(mousePressed && (mouseX >5 && mouseX <95 && mouseY > 205 && mouseY < 295))
{
color = #000EFF;
}
if(mousePressed && (mouseX >5 && mouseX <95 && mouseY > 305 && mouseY < 395))
{
color = #FF0000;
}
if(mousePressed && (mouseX >5 && mouseX <95 && mouseY > 405 && mouseY < 495))
{
color = #00FF0A;
println("green");
}
pen.fill(color);
pen.ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, 10, 10);
pen.endDraw();
}

Answer 1

In processing the indent color is the name of a built-in function (color()), which creates a n integral color value from the red, green, blue and alpha color channels.
This causes that you can't declare a variable with the same name color.
You have to rename the variable to solve the issue:
e.g.
int fillcolor = color(255);
int fillcolor = color(0, 14, 255);
int fillcolor = color(255, 0, 0, 255);
If you se the variable fillcolor by an hexadecimal value, then you have to set consider, that the color has an alpha channel too. This means the value consist of 4 color components and has to have 8 hexadecimal digits:
e.g.
int fillcolor = #FFFFFFFF;
int fillcolor = 0xFF000000;
Anyway it is to prefer to use the function color(), which makes the code much more comprehensibly.
Probably you don't want to declare the variable in the function draw, but you want to declare a global variable.
Think about writing your code like this:
int fillcolor = color(255);
void draw() {
pen.beginDraw();
if (mousePressed) {
if (mouseX > 5 && mouseX < 95) {
if (mouseY > 5 && mouseY < 95) {
pen.clear();
} else if (mouseY > 105 && mouseY < 195) {
fillcolor = color(0);
} else if (mouseY > 205 && mouseY < 295) {
fillcolor = color(0, 0, 255);
} else if (mouseY > 305 && mouseY < 395) {
fillcolor = color(255, 0, 0);
} else if (mouseY > 405 && mouseY < 495) {
fillcolor = color(00, 255, 0);
println("green");
}
}
}
pen.fill(fillcolor);
pen.ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, 10, 10);
pen.endDraw();
}