Basically variants are broken for int64 even in D5... therefore anything
that relies on them is broken.

There are workarounds but only if the source is available.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie (TeamIBO)" <helebor@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2002 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Clientdataset


> At 08:49 AM 21-02-02 +1300, you wrote:
> >TClientDataset that comes with delphi doesn't supports largeints
> >properly. Will there be a IBO version of TClientDataset which
> >supports it properly?
>
> Since TClientDataset is designed to isolate sets of data from the server,
it seems pretty unlikely that IBO would have any use for a TClientDataset
workalike.
>
> Do you know why (or in what way) TClientDataset fails with largeints? I
haven't inspected its source, but do you have the option to inherit a custom
component that does what you want TClientDataset to do?
>
> You might like to look at what Borland have done in the Delphi6 Upgrade 2,
to see if any of the bugfixes there solve it for you:
> http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,28405,00.html
>
> regards,
> Helen
>
>
> regards,
> Helen Borrie (TeamIBO Support)
>
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