> I presume your question has nothing to do with the messages you
> quoted.
>

Of course not - but programmers are lazy bones! I just hit reply on an
old message...

> IBO will also try to use the BCD field type more often when decimal
> digits are requested. This is suggesting that precise values to
> specified decimal places are desired so BCD is most appropriate

Accepted - but what surprises me is the fact that some days ago some
fields where floats and now if i remove and add them they become BCD
fields...

--
Christian Kaas mailto:christian@...
Client/Server/Internet/Multitier development
http://www.ckaas.de

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Geoff Worboys [mailto:geoff@...]
> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Marz 2001 05:01
> An: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: [IBO] Numeric(10,2) from Domain gives TIBOBCDfield in
> Delphi!?
>
>
> Christian,
>
> I presume your question has nothing to do with the messages you
> quoted.
>
> > the subject says it all - some of my fields become tibobcdfields
> > when added to the field list of a tiboquery - how comes that!?
> > Also i am getting troubles when setting these fields with the
> > .asfloat method!
>
> I am not all that familiar with TIBO*, but from the ReleaseNotes (you
> know, that document we all ignore near the bottom of the source ;-)
>
> -----
> IBO will also try to use the BCD field type more often when decimal
> digits are requested. This is suggesting that precise values to
> specified decimal places are desired so BCD is most appropriate
> -----
>
> My opinion is that Jasons decision to use BCD is highly appropriate,
> since it is consistent with the decision to implement a field as
> NUMERIC or DECIMAL. If you want a floating point value then use
> FLOAT/DOUBLE.
>
>
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
>
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