As fas as I know, in Blob Subtype 0 you can store any type of binary data. And for displaying you need something like a excel-component for delphi, perhaps a ActiveX-Control.
Just an idea.

Guido

Nico Callewaert wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a big problem. It's not really a IBO related question, but I don't know where else to ask. My user wants a apllication to store "text", but not just text, formatted text, like MS-Word, I've made something like that with a TIB_RichEdit component, he had the possibilities to set text bold, italic, underline, colors and things like that. but now he's asking to insert tables like in Word, and that the tables automatically resizes when text is getting too long, all in that TIB_RichEdit field. The whole thing is used to make quotations, where we have a table with the header, and a detail table where the text is saved. I just answered that a office application isn't the same as a database application. Just like you can't use Excel to make a database with. But of course he's expecting a solution, what should I do ?
>
> Please help me, I'm drowning :-))))
>
> Thanks,
> Nico Callewaert
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