Hal Angseesing wrote: ...so lets make it global. :wtf: I am cringing at the very thought of that! :laugh: The largest application (written in C) I ever worked on had more global variables than I bothered to count. I was not allowed to create the original but I was the one who had to fix it for release to the public. When I examined the original code, for the first time, I found a dozen ways to crash the system within 15 minutes of opening the sources files, what a mess. :omg: Do not worry! The finished product worked just as required and would no longer crash the system if looked at it wrong. ;) INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra