Help! Objective C Syntax Question

[georgiabasser]

I'm learning Objective C so I can develop on the iOS platform. I'm building several small tutorial apps as I learn the language and environment. I have a question about the following line of code.

UIButton* senderButton = (UIButton *)sender;

I've defined a senderButton of type UIButton* and I'm setting it equal to my sender. I know my sender is a UIButton type which will give me access to all its attributes and the associated values/data. My question is, and please forgive me as I must be really stupid, but what is the "*" after UIButton telling me??? Thanks in advance for your assistance. . .

[iSDK]

The star is telling you that the name of the UIButton is going to come next. This is called a pointer.

Originally Posted by georgiabasser

I'm learning Objective C so I can develop on the iOS platform. I'm building several small tutorial apps as I learn the language and environment. I have a question about the following line of code.

UIButton* senderButton = (UIButton *)sender;

I've defined a senderButton of type UIButton* and I'm setting it equal to my sender. I know my sender is a UIButton type which will give me access to all its attributes and the associated values/data. My question is, and please forgive me as I must be really stupid, but what is the "*" after UIButton telling me??? Thanks in advance for your assistance. . .

[Chobie]

Originally Posted by iSDK

The star is telling you that the name of the UIButton is going to come next. This is called a pointer.

The star '*' denotes a pointer. It does not mean the variable name is going to follow although it usually does.