Graphics problems

hi all
i don't know if this would be teh correct place to post but i dont know anywhere else...
here goes.

I'm having trouble trying to output a variable using graphics window BGI, i'm using Borland C++ builder....

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
#include "graphics2.h"
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{   
  int GraphDriver = 0;
  int GraphMode = 0;
  GraphDriver = 0;
  GraphMode = 0;
  int timer;
  timer = 5;   
  initgraph(&GraphDriver, &GraphMode, "", 640, 480);

  do
  {
    Sleep (999);
    outtextxy(10,200, timer);/*<<the timer variable is what i need to output but can't*/
    timer = (timer - 1);
  }while (timer >0);
return = 0;
}

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Basically its a 5 second countdown/timer , just can't get teh variable to output on screen.
I'd appreciate any help

Thanks.

I'm not familiar with this borland graphics library that your using but maybe outtextxy expects a charactor string and not an int.
you can use the itoa() function to create a charactor string from an int.