Nope.  All the standard Individual subclasses have everything already implemented.  You'd only have to override genotypeToString if you're making your own special kind of Individual.

Sean

On Nov 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, SUBSCRIBE ECJ-INTEREST-L Anonymous wrote:

> Sean, thanks. That worked. 
> 
> Please correct me, the printIndividual( ) is a method in Individual class. So I 
> need to create a class that extends the Individual class so that I could use 
> printIndividual( )? In the owner's manual it stated that genotypeToString( ) 
> should be overridden instead.
> 
> public class Encoder{
>   public static void main(String[] args){
>      System.out.println(ParsingIndividual.genotypeToString());
>   }
> }
> 
> class ParsingIndividual extends Individual{
>   @Override
>   public String genotypeToString(float f){
>      return Code.encode(f);
>   }
> }
> 
> Rui