Hi All,

I want to write a FM7 plugin which will take an image from a container
field as input, read its header and display the various header contents
in different text fields. I was wondering can a plugin return multiple
values and if yes, then how do we access them in FM7?

I was thinking of setting the calculation field to be a repetition
field, but then how do I set the individual fields to specific output
from the plugin.

Thanks,
Abhi

In article <1131771794.283285.236680 (AT) f14g2000cwb (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
abhishika (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...
A plugin can expose multiple functions. Each function can return its own
value. Or you could simply return all the values in a 'list', and parse
it in FM.

That I couldn't tell you. I don't deal with repetitions much. And never
from a plugin.

Hi
Thanks for the reply. Can you please elaborate on parsing the list in
FM?
I am new to Filemaker developer and don't really know much about
plugins.
I tht of using multiple functions as a way out if nothing else turns
up. Also I tht of using the dataVect class to return multiple values
from the plugin to filemaker. But am not sure how to interpret the
multiple values in FM. Can you please help me out with this one?

Thanks a lot,
Abhi

In article <1131842889.539633.291860 (AT) g49g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
abhishika (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...
Return a list of values as text:

1
23
35
46
57
68

Then use the filemaker functions: countValues, getValue, etc to get what
you need.

Not sure what your application is specifically, but multiple functions
is the most natural way of handling multiple return values that I can
think of.

I honestly haven't done much with plugin development with filemaker, I
don't know the specifics of te dataVect class nor what it can do, or how
it might be mapped to a repeating field, or if that is even possible.

best regards,
Dave