How do I return a Date type from my plug-in?

[J__]

Hi all,

I am new to this forum. Great forum first off!

Actually 2 questions:

1. Where can I find more documentation on writing plug-ins? The Developer Edition of Filemaker only came with 1 plug-in sample?

2. I have written a simple plug-in. I would like to return a date back to Filemaker. Currently I'm returning a string. In the Field Define Lists dialog if I set the Calculated field to return 'Date', then it displays a "?" in the field when I run Filemaker. What's the trick?

Thanks for your help in advance and I look forward to hopefully contributing to this forum and answering some questions for other folks.

Sincerely,

John Scalco

[SteveB]

I don't think there is any other documentation on writing plugins other than what cam on the CDROM. You might look at David McKee's site www.protolight.com. He may have some additional examples.

I think you need to convert the date using TextToDate(date) function.

If you find any other docs on plugins, please let me know.

[J__]

Thanks for the reply.

I checked the website you suggested and did not see any information there.

Regarding TextToDate(), thanks for the suggestion, I already had tried this and it is one way to go, however, I really don't like the idea that the user has to call another function to use my function !

ex: TextToDate(External("myl-TestThis", "10/20/2002"))

I only want one call to keep it simple.

thanks again,

John Scalco

[Vaughan]

Are you aware thzt dates are stored internally as the number of days since 1/1/0001?