return(TimeString) isn't the correct syntax. I think the macro porocesor is
interpreting as a zero. If you do
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to return a string variable from a function to the main body of
> a macro. The string variable has the right value inside the function, but
> when it is passed back to the macro body, it has a value of 0.
>
> I'm new to ImageJ, so I thought that maybe strings might be considered
> objects in some way (e.g., arrays of characters), and so needed to be
> passed
> by reference as with variables declared as arrays from the start. This
> didn't work either.
>
> Any insight as to why this won't work, and what will make it work, would be
> greatly appreciated. A little test macro is below, using the get time test
> macro as a function.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> *** Code to Follow ***
>
>
> macro "test" {
> timeString = "";
> timeString = getTime();
> showMessage(timeString);
> }
>
> function getTime() {
> MonthNames =
>
> newArray("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec");
> DayNames = newArray("Sun", "Mon","Tue","Wed","Thu","Fri","Sat");
> getDateAndTime(year, month, dayOfWeek, dayOfMonth, hour, minute,
> second, msec);
> TimeString ="Date: "+DayNames[dayOfWeek]+" ";
> if (dayOfMonth<10) {TimeString = TimeString+"0";}
> TimeString =
> TimeString+dayOfMonth+"-"+MonthNames[month]+"-"+year+"\nTime: ";
> if (hour<10) {TimeString = TimeString+"0";}
> TimeString = TimeString+hour+":";
> if (minute<10) {TimeString = TimeString+"0";}
> TimeString = TimeString+minute+":";
> if (second<10) {TimeString = TimeString+"0";}
> TimeString = TimeString+second;
>
> showMessage(TimeString);
> return(TimeString);
> }
>
>
>
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