A: 

You need to do [setAnswerText setText:@"my text"]; What you are doing now is wrong. The reason you get that exception is that UILabel does not have a class method called setAnswerText:.

Elfred
thanks for the quick response, i changed that and now my program quits without any warning or info in the console. any ideas?
Joe
have you properly alloc'd released objects? thats usually a key issue.
Thomas Clayson
+1  A: 

answerText is the name of the label? then what are you trying to do?

If you want to access the answerText object (that being an instance of UILabel) you need to use self.answerText not [UILabel setAnswerText];

If you want to change the text in the label use:

answerText.text = @"Hello, this is my text";

or similar.

Thomas Clayson
awesome thanks for the answer :) sorry if i was a little unclear on what i was trying to do
Joe