[wow4me]

Thanks gello, ill try that when i get home from work. Im sorry to keep bugging you on code but youve been such a great help.

Let me just say that i have no previous experience with regards to lua. Ive been a cobol coder, VB, javascript, Power Builder, Oracle , C and Pascal coder. Old school you might say. BUt now ive gone beyond the realm of coding into a totally different industry in that of banking. hehehe....so i appreciate the help in answering very noobish questions.

EDIT: catch up question. Do you have a lowdown on how the hell it is possible to get a nil value and yet the addon displays the results just fine?

Im thinking is it the fact that the function is an external function that when it is called from a separate addon it results in initially a nil value? But then again i cant resolve the fact that it returns the values correctly to be printed out in the textbox. Some weird things which i have never encountered before as a coder.