I am having trouble getting headers recognized....appreciate any help.  I want to have a global header that defines class variables that are used in both libraries and main loop. I use the timer class and LiquidCrystal class and the instantiated objects need to be accessible by a library and within the main loop.  My strategy is to create a global header with all the includes and defining the variables as extern in the global header, and declaring them in the .ino file.  The idea is that by defining them in the global header, all .cpp files will recognize them. By declaring them in the .ino file, they will only be instantiated once.  I've been hacking away for a while and am still not getting it to work.

A turned on the verbose errors and it looks like the headers are not being seen.  i've tried adding them to the project, adding them as libraries, still not working.  Appreciate any direction you can give. The attached .doc file has the global variable header, the start of the .ino file, the error, and how the project files are set up.  Thanks in advance......jimf

thanks for your input...I'll take your advice and post on the arduino.cc forum.  cheers....jim