Not a method, but NSCell.h has a function with 13 arguments.

APPKIT_EXTERN void NSDrawNinePartImage(NSRect frame, NSImage *topLeftCorner,
NSImage *topEdgeFill, NSImage *topRightCorner, NSImage *leftEdgeFill,
NSImage *centerFill, NSImage *rightEdgeFill, NSImage *bottomLeftCorner,
NSImage *bottomEdgeFill, NSImage *bottomRightCorner, NSCompositingOperation
op, CGFloat alphaFraction, BOOL flipped)
AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5_AND_LATER;

-Ken

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote:

> This still the longest one or has Apple outdone themselves since? 11 args,
> you really wouldn't want much more than this.
>
> -(id)initWithBitmapDataPlanes:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:bitsPerSample:samplesPerPixel:hasAlpha:isPlanar:colorSpaceName:bitmapFormat:bytesPerRow:bitsPerPixel:
>
>
> WT wrote:
>
>> On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
>>
>>  clearly simplicity is important, but i'd like to know if there is a
>>> limit for the amount of arguments which a method can handle?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know if there's an upper limit, but I don't recall ever  writing a
>> method with more than 5 or 6 arguments. When I feel inclined  to do
>> otherwise, it typically means that there's a flaw in my design.
>>
>> Wagner
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