I don't understand these XNA Errors; Please help!

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I am following a textbook tutorial for a game called "SquareChase"; my professor wants the class to make our own modifications. I'm using a PNG tileset for the squares' colors. To make troubleshooting easier, I created a separate Square class. I have two errors in the main game code. They are both in the block of code below:

C#

spriteBatch.Draw(squareTexture
                 currentSquare,
                 Square.Colors[playerScore%27]);
spriteBatch.End();

asd
<b>Error 1:</b> The best overloaded method match for 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteBatch.Draw(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Texture2D, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Rectangle, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Color)' has some invalid arguments

Error 2:; Argument 3: Cannot convert from "string" to "Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Color"

The book I'm working in is called "XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example"; it's published by Packt Publishing

Posted 25-Aug-11 16:16pm

Blind.Geek81

Updated 25-Aug-11 16:27pm

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-25T16:32:00

The documentation is the source that can help you the most SpriteBatch.Draw[^]

From the error message I can see that Square.Colors[] is an array of strings, but you're setting the color parameter to a string, but it only accepts Color[^] so you need to convert your string to Color[^]

If your book tells you that you can use a string then you should go ask for your money back.