try this:

NSString *string = [textField stringValue];
int stringLength = [string length];
NSString *msg = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is %d 
characters
long", string, stringLength]
[textLabel setStringValue:msg];
NSLog(@"%@", string);


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to work through an exercise in the new Hillegass book and am
> encountering difficulties. The app fails to build. The relevant code snippet
> is below, with errors noted in the comments:
>
> -(IBAction)getCount:(id)sender
> {
>
>        NSString *string = [textField stringValue];
>        int *stringLength = [string length];  //warning: initialization makes
> pointer from integer without a cast
>        [textLabel setStringValue:@"\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is %d characters 
> long", string,
> stringLength]; //error: too many arguments to function 'setStringValue:'
>        NSLog(@"%@", string);
> }
>
> The idea is to take input from a text field, calculate the number of
> characters in the text string, and display both the entered text string and
> the number of characters in a text label.
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could clarify two things for me:
>
> 1. How to structure the setStringValue method so that gcc doesn't barf
> because of "too many arguments"--I'm not clear what that means.
> 2. How to structure the initialization of the  stringLength variable so that
> gcc doesn't emit warnings--I'm not clear on what the problem is here.
>
> TIA,
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Walzer
> Code by Kevin
> http://www.codebykevin.com
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