Use AsExtended.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: <murmurrer@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: [IBO] invalid floating point nightmare


> I use IBO 3.6.
> I have a table with a field of PRICE NUMERIC(13,2)
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> As a test I have created an app with only:
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> - TIB_connection
> - TwwIBOquery (requestlive := true)
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> When I put in code:
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> wwIBOquery1.edit;
> wwIBOqueyy1.fieldbyname('price').asfloat := 12345678912.12;
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> --> ERROR: invalid floating point operation
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> when i do:
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> wwIBOqueyy1.fieldbyname('price').asfloat := 123456789.12;
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> there is no such error
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> what's wrong with this code?
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