There is but it is involved. If you subscribe to Delphi Mag, I can refer to
an article of mine. Otheriwse, it will take me a whiel to dig the code out.

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From: <stewartbourke@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2001 16:10
Subject: [IBO] Calculated fields


> This is probably not only an IBO situation but I have a question
> regarding calculated fields on an IBOTable.
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> I have defined a calculated field which is evaluated in the
> oncalcfields event. My problem is that I am getting an
> error 'dataase not in edit mode' every time I assign the calculated
> field a value in the oncalcfield event, when the table's state is
> dsBrowse. I can understand the logic (I Think!) behind this from the
> point of view that I am assigining a value to a field from the
> dataseset, which it then attempts to write to the database, My
> question is how do I stop it.
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> Is there a way to have the oncalcfield event fire and to be able to
> assign the calculated field value without the table objecting.
> Similar calculated fields work fine in an IBOQuery - but the again
> the result set will not be live.
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> Thanks,
> Stewart Bourke
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