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copied!<p><strong>this problem's been solved, thanks for your help</strong></p> <p>So I'm trying to teach myself xcode for programming iphone/ipod apps by writing an app and looking up what I need to know as I need to know it. This website has probably been the biggest help but this time I haven't been able to find an answer to my problem, probably because it's too simple for anyone who has a book to have asked.</p> <p>I'm trying to create an app that will draw ten cards at random from a deck of 25. I made a class called Dealer that has all of the cards and an array that holds a reference to each of them as member data, as well as a method that returns a card from the array and removes it. here's my code for the method</p> <pre><code>- (NSString *)drawDominion { //some code here NSString *current = [dominionDeck objectAtIndex:i]; //more irrelevant code return current; } </code></pre> <p>Then in an action method for my View Controller I created an object of my class and tried calling drawDominion but it's giving me the error "Receiver type 'Dealer' for instance message does not declare a method with selector 'drawDominion'</p> <pre><code>- (IBAction) Dominion { Dealer *deal = [[Dealer alloc] init]; NSString *testStr = [deal drawDominion]; } </code></pre> <p>here's the code where I tried calling drawDominion. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here, I just picked up xcode yesterday and it's been an uphill battle since then. thanks for any help you can offer.</p> <p>in answer to some of your replys: Well I didn't make a Dealer.h but I kinda piggy-backed the interface for it in the existing viewController.h could that be causing my problem? it starts after the @end for the class already defined in there and it looks like this.</p> <pre><code>@interface Dealer : NSObject -(NSString *) drawDominion:(NSString**)array; -(NSString *) drawIntrigue:(NSString**)array; -(NSString *) drawBoth:(NSString**)array; @end </code></pre> <p>also I guess I forgot to put the instance variables in the .h but the compiler doesn't seem to be complaining about that. should I put them in there anyway?</p>

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