We have converted our Booleans to T or F char fields. This works great with
all the standard Delphi components we use, even our .AsBoolean code works
perfectly. You should be able to do your 'if Data.Field then' code, I am
not sure because we prefer explicitly doing the comparison 'if
DataField.AsBoolean = True then'.

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone 03 377 0495
fax 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com
Wild Software Ltd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Sanders" <psanders@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:38 PM
Subject: [firebird-support] boolean fields


>
> Hi
>
> With the eventual release of FB2, will it be possible for it to support
> boolean fields "directly" i.e. not a numeric value per se, or is this
> specifically an SQL issue?
>
> When I use check boxes in my app it is easier and more "logical" to code
> "if data.field then..." than if Data.field = 1 or similar. It would also
> allow the use of more of the Delphi/third party components that recognise
> such boolean fields. They do not recognise the numeric field.
>
> --
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Sanders