Thread: holding a reel in my prog

can someone help, i have my prog running but the hold reel function won't work. this is the spin reel function.

game::play()
{
cout<<"Welcome to the Vegas Fruit Machine\n";

reel1.spin();
winningline[1] = reel1.getcurrsymbl();

reel2.spin();
winningline[2] = reel2.getcurrsymbl();

reel3.spin();
winningline[3] = reel3.getcurrsymbl();

cout<<"Reel 1 Reel 2 Reel 3"<<endl;

cout<<winningline[1]<<" "<<winningline[2]<<" "<<winningline[3]<<" "<<endl;

cout<<"After spin your credit is:- "<<credit<<endl;
credit--;
i have a hold reel variable set as a bool, and the player is asked whether they want to hold the reel. trouble is if answer is yes the reels will still spin. how can i program them to hold if the holdreel1 value is true, after asking the player and their answer is converted to a true or false answer.

so say for e.g.

if (reel1hold = true)
{
don't spin
}
else
{
reel1.spin();
winningline[1] = reel1.getcurrsymbl();
}?

thanks for your help

this generates a problem though. if i hold the last reel only, the the first 2 reels give out the same value each time.

will have to have a look at it.