From: Ian Chapman Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: need help Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:26:24 -0500 Organization: Nortel Lines: 28 Message-ID: <38DBB34F.D2F1F696@nortelnetworks.com> References: <38ce5d23$0$28656 AT SSP1NO17 DOT highway DOT telekom DOT at> NNTP-Posting-Host: bcarib90.ca.nortel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi Florian, the variable close_if_finished is not defined. Is it integer? For your code to work must be a global variable. // Florian's code int close_if_finished; int main() { finished(); } > void finished() > { > if (close_if_finished == true) > { > close_if_finished = false; > } > else > { > close_if_finished = true; > } > } If close if finished is defined in some other function it is out of scope in finished(). You must pass it to finished as a parameter, this is the prefered way. Regards Ian.