Hi Andrew, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schrieb:
I wrote a simple function Function mydate As Date mydate = CDate(100) End Function I then called this function from a Calc document =myDate() Finally, I directly accessed the cells with the dates from a macro similar to the following code: Print ThisComponent.Sheets(0).getCellByPosition(0, 1).Value The cell displayed the value as I expected, but the returned value was zero. Turns out that dates are converted to strings when returned to Calc. Oops. The proper thing to do (if you want it to work as expected) is to return a numeric value.
I'm not sure about that. "date" is a special Basic data type, it is not type "double". The "Programming Guide" tells vaguely "StarOffice Basic uses an internal format that permits comparisons and mathematical operations on date and time values."
I do not find informations about mapping type "date" to UNO. The Developer's Guide has a mapping UNO -> Basic, but I miss the other way round. There seems to be some conversions already in Basic. If your function returns double not date, then you get the serial number of the date/time.
It is more a documentation issue, than a real bug. Kind regards Regina -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
