Alan McDonald schrieb:

>>Hello again,
>>
>>as nobody replied to my last post, I try it again and keep it more
>>straightforward ;-)
>>
>>Does anybody know of a practicable method of extracting plain text from
>>a blob field containing rich text?
>>
>>I would be happy about:
>>- an existing UDF (or UDF library) already implementing this
>>- an algorithm, a function or a component that I can use to write my own
>>UDF in Delphi
>>- any other idea how to solve the task.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Urs
>
>
> maybe you could write a UDF with the TRichView component which has
> SavetoStream, LoadfromStream functions.
> Alan
>

That was already proposed to me in a Delphi forum.
But as described in my earlier post the line "RichEdit1.Plaintext :=
true" (apparently it was this line) caused the Firebird server to crash.

Urs