Question

I have the following line in code:

#define INACTIVITYTIMEBEFOREBAITARROWDISPATCHED 60.0

I get an error on this line that says, Too many arguments to method call, expected 1, have 2

Did I exceed the maximum length? If so, what is the maximum length? In any case, the actual message seems absurd.

Per request, here is the context:

#define VITALITYSECONDS 40.0
#define MINIMUMSCALEFACTOR 0.10
#define MINIMUMSPEED 2.0
#define INACTIVITYTIMEBEFOREBAITARROWDISPATCHED 60.0

#pragma mark - Angle and Distance Functions

-(float)normalizeAngle:(float)angle
{
   float answer;
   // Take an angle and return a value from -pi to pi
   // To do this, we first add pi, then divide by 2pi, then take fractional part, then multiply by 2pi then subtract pi.
   answer = angle + M_PI;
   answer = answer/(2*M_PI);
   answer = answer - floor(answer);
   answer = answer * 2 * M_PI;
   answer = answer - M_PI;
   return answer;
}

For completeness, here is the offending line:

[self helpText:@"Bait arrow dispatched due to %f seconds inactivity\n",INACTIVITYTIMEBEFOREBAITARROWDISPATCHED];

And here is the corrected version:

[self helpText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Bait arrow dispatched due to %f seconds inactivity\n",INACTIVITYTIMEBEFOREBAITARROWDISPATCHED]];

Here is the declaration for that method:

-(void)helpText:(NSString *)text

Method helpText is just a temporary method to display stuff on screen to help out the testers.

Answer 1

its not an issue with the define. it an issue with the method.

Does the method take in an arg list ? or just a string.

Because it looks like you are trying to set a string by using a format.

try this out

[self helpText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Bait arrow dispatched due to %f seconds inactivity\n",INACTIVITYTIMEBEFOREBAITARROWDISPATCHED]];