Thread: [C] Drawing A National Flag With Stars (While Loops And If Statements)

Hey guys!
I am new to the forum and want to say hi to everybody!

Currently I am working on an exercise to draw a national flag by using while and if statements. I am learning the programming language in own efforts, so I am not attending any school or what so ever.

Alright to point out my problem:
I wrote a function to draw the flag I desired (Danish flag). Unfortunately it only draws the very first row and I don't understand why it is only drawing the first row. I would be really grateful to get some hints what I actually did with the code to behave that way. This is the code:

Code:

Code:

/* Create a Danish Flag with the use of loops and functions
 */


/* 
 * File:   main.c
 * Author: Epi
 *
 * Created on 20. Mai 2016, 18:29
 */


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


#define WIDTH 11
#define HEIGHT 6


void drawFlag (int width, int height);


int main(int argc, char** argv) {


    int width = WIDTH;
    int height = HEIGHT;
    
    drawFlag (width, height);
    
    return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}


void drawFlag (int width, int height){
    int counter = 0;
    int drawHeight = 0;
    int drawWidth = 0;
    while (drawHeight < height){
        if (drawHeight != 3 || drawWidth != 4){
            while (counter < width){
                if (counter == 3){
                    printf (" ");
                }else{
                    printf ("*");
                }
                counter++;
            }
        }else{
            while (counter < width){
                printf (" ");
                counter++;
            }
        }
        printf ("\n");
        drawHeight++;
        drawWidth++;
    }
}

Edit: sry i cant get rid of the first code window, it reappears all the time. Cheers!

You need to reset counter to 0 for each new row.