Question

I’m trying to change the text of a UILabel with text from an array upon a button click, but it doesn’t do anything.

@interface Test01AppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate> {
UILabel *helloLabel;
UIButton *hellobutton;
NSMutableArray *madWords;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWindow *window; 
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIButton *hellowButton;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *hellowLabel;

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableArray *madWords;

- (void) madArrays;
- (IBAction)helloYall;

@end

and

#import "Test01AppDelegate.h"

@implementation Test01AppDelegate

@synthesize window = _window;
@synthesize hellowButton;
@synthesize hellowLabel;
@synthesize madWords;

 - (void) madArrays {
[madWords addObject:@"Part A"];
[madWords addObject:@"Part B"];
[madWords addObject:@"Part C"];
[madWords addObject:@"Part D"];
}

- (IBAction)helloYall {

 [self madArrays];

 self.hellowLabel.text = [madWords objectAtIndex:0];

}

I can set the helloLabel text with

@"some text here";

and it works fine. Also, I tried copying the “madArrays” method into the “helloYall” method and it still didn’t work. As I said, I can manually set the text and it works, but I’d like to pull the info from an array. Eventually, I’d like to loop through the array to grab the text on each button press, but one step at a time. Thanks.

Answer 1

You never create the madWords array. You need to add:

self.madWords = [NSMutableArray array];

at the top of:

 - (void) madArrays {

would probably be a good place. Other possibly good places would be i the class init method or the view controller viewWillAppear method.