Quote:Original post by LittleJimmy
I dont understand why you guys keep saying I'm a whiner, I was telling you that my program didnt work so that you guys can understand just how new I am at this (which is why I'm in the for beginners section) not because I'm whining about it, then you go ahead and say goodluck with my programming career, I think you guys just misinterpreted my message which made it seem as if I was whining, but I assure you I wasnt.

Oh and by the way, I tried to follow the intructions, which was use extern mainly, but I couldnt get it working, this is my first time im attempting to do such a large project so please try not to be so hard on me, I'm still learning.

Yeah that's probably why most of the experienced developers around here always suggest beginners stick with simple stuff at first since problems like this don't usually appear until you start working on larger and more complex programs. I know in the C++ class I took in college this problem never came up since our instructor didn't even want us using multiple files for our C++ programs since it was too much work for him to keep track of all the files! I've just run into this problem splitting up a game into several source files myself so this thread has been quite helpful!