I'm not sure what the BDE would do differently than I am doing. There seems
to be only one way to interact with BLOB's and the API.

I'll keep this in mind for future consideration.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos H. Cantu" <ibo@...>
To: "Helen Borrie" <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] *** blr version 84 is not supported ***


> I was having the same problem with a system I'm porting from BDE to IBO.
It
> was really a subtype problem. It was set to 2 and when I changed it to 1
> everything worked. The "funny" thing is that with BDE it always worked,
> even with subtype 2, so I think IBO does some diferent treatment based on
> the subtype... Jason ?
>
> []s
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> Carlos
> WarmBoot Informatica - http://www.warmboot.com.br
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> HB> At 03:52 PM 06-02-01 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Because it was a typo :o(. Here is the real value:
> >>
> >>NOTES BLOB sub_type 2 segment size 128
> >>
> >>Do you have any suggestions as to what the real problem might be?
>
> HB> Here is your original statement:
>
> HB> "I am receiving the message in the subject line when I attempt to
display a
> HB> memo field using a TDBMemo control. Here is how my memo is defined in
my
> HB> table:
> HB> NOTES BLOB sub_type 2 segment size 1[28]"
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> HB> You are trying to put a binary blob into a memo control - it won't
> HB> work. TDBMemo needs a text blob. I suspect what is happening here is
that
> HB> the client is asking for some special stream format that is "text in a
> HB> binary representation". Because you have not defined a Blob filter
that
> HB> fits these requirements, it's just coming back and saying it can't
> HB> represent it.
>
> HB> Change the definition to sub_type 1 or 0, or just drop the sub_type
> HB> altogether and IB will just store whatever it receives (it defaults to
0,
> HB> unstructured).
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> HB> Another thing is - if you are using the TIB_ native IBO data access
> HB> objects, TDBMemo won't work with them. You need a TIB_Memo.
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> HB> Helen
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