Hi chaps - here's my first... Programmed my first Apple computer commercially in 1983. I've got two c++ projects to be ported from Windows where I was using Bloodshed. They both do everything in one big program, using the simplest old-fashioned screen outputs and inputs. I'm happy to keep I/O as simple as poss. (...though I would like to be able to write to the/a screen in run time without doing the equivalent of a degree first - like back in the '70's !) I love intriguing detective projects which is what mine are. That's why I don't need another one - i.e. spending 6 months learning cocoa/carbon and whatever where I seem to be obliged to define all my data structures from scratch. Now I've got X-code up, something notices the .cpp on my source files and opens an editor - which surely implies that it knows they are c++ source files. But what in the name of all that's holy do you have to do to get the compiler to compile?! With Bloodshed and Visual c++ you could do complex tasks the way the system wanted you to but they did also offer relatively simple "just compile" options too. Can anyone point me to the compile button please? Cheers, JJ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com