IBX automatically strips out and adds the quotes for fieldnames as in
say persistent fields. The case is still dependent on us to get
right. The only reason this is now an issue is that with IBO, I have
to go through 200+ forms to add quotes to persistent fields that were
working with IBX.




--- In IBObjects@egroups.com, "Claudio Valderrama C." <cvalde@u...>
wrote:

> I'm really surprised to read your letter, sir. When I spoke

(or wrote) to

> Jeff Overcash several months ago, trying to reach an consensus

between IBX

> behavior and IBO behavior regarding dialect 3's quoted identifiers,

he told

> me (or I understood) that the only way quotes would be used would

be in the

> case the developer adds them. Then I passed the answer to Jason and

he

> agreed, too.
> If you assure me that IBX always quotes any field name and

hence it uses

> always the fields in the exact case as you type their names, I will

have to

> approach Jeff to see what's happening or what he decided after our

exchange.

>
> C.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rohit Gupta [mailto:r.gupta@x...]
> > Sent: Jueves 11 de Enero de 2001 19:45
> > To: IBObjects@egroups.com
> > Subject: [IBO] Quoted Fields
> >
> >
> > We are in the process of evaluating IBO by shifting from IBX to
> > IBO because
> > IBX is just too slow.
> >
> > We are using Dialect 3 with quoted fields to be able to use

reserved names

> > such as Number and Type. And we are using quoted indexnames to

preserve

> > the case because it is far more readable by our clients that way.
> >
> > We are using ionly the components under the iboTDataset Tab as we
> > are moving
> > from Btrieve to Interbase and have to preserve the 200+ forms.
> >
> > Whereas IBX stripped and inserted quotes as necessary, there

doesnt appear

> > to be a theme in IBO. The probelm we have is that to get thinsg
> > working it
> > appears that we have to go through all the forms and add quotes
> > around each
> > persistent field and each indexname in each component - table,

navigator,

> > grid etc.
> >
> > Also, we have to chage all tablenames in many components on all

forms

> >
> > Are there any properties to help with this ? Any other ideas ?

going thru

> > that many forms is a mamoth job.
> >
> > We feel that the quotes should be added and stripped by the

ibocomponents

> > when using dialect 3, automatically.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >