Not sure what is wrong since my testing of array columns has been pretty
thorough. It is possible something could have been done to upset them so
I'll add this to the list of things to verify and touch up if necessary.

Thanks,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: [IBO] Array Columns - Employee.gdb


> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Array columns for the first time, I am using the
> employee.gdb database that comes with IB/FB - the JOB table has an
> array column LANGUAGE_REQ declared as VARCHAR(15)[5].
>
> I created a simple demo that shows the table in IB_Grid, and the
> LANUAGE_REQ column in a TIB_ArrayGrid. It seems that selecting any of
> the records that contain a non-null value for the LANGUAGE_REQ field
> results in an AV. The few times that an AV does not happen the
> TIB_ArrayGrid shows mostly garbage - although if you click in one of
> the cells you get part of what it was supposed to show (I think) -
> values like 'ench', and 'glish'.
>
> The AV happens during a Move call inside the SysGetVarArray call
> (called from GetAsVariant).
>
>
> I have almost no interest in arrays, but my backup utility failed when
> trying to backup the employee database - in that case the error
> happened inside the SysPutVarArray call where:
>
> EleSize := GetElementSize( @ArrayDesc );
> returns EleSize = 0!!!
>
> So I thought I should see if the problem was in my code or just a lack
> of understanding about arrays.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing