4am, school tomorrow, and these 5 lines of code are killing me!

[Derek Simkowiak <dereks animal blarg net>]

	Help.  I have a text widget, a label widget, and I want the label
to show the number of characters in my text widget.  I can't find any
freakin' docs on the Gstring, or gchar, or g_char (or whatever the hell
I'm supposed to use) so here's my fxn:


void message_label_update(GtkWidget *text, GtkLabel *label)
{
	guint message_length;
	GString *the_label_text;   /* what should this be?! */
	
	message_length = GTK_TEXT(text)->text_end - GTK_TEXT(text)->gap_size;

	if (message_length == 1)
	{
	gtk_label_set(GTK_LABEL(label), "1 character");
	}
	else
	{
	g_string_sprintf(the_label_text,"%d characters", message_length);
	gtk_label_set(GTK_LABEL(label), &the_label_text);
	}	

}


	This is the warning I get when I try to compile:

MessageGordon.c: In function `message_label_update':
MessageGordon.c:80: warning: passing arg 2 of `gtk_label_set' from
incompatible pointer type 

	Yes, I know I'm making a stupid mistake.  I don't care.  I've lost
all sense of decency...somebody....PLEASE tell me what I'm doing
wrong....blrchzz  psfft.... ack