I've no idea what could be the trouble. But, obviously the value is NULL so
that should be taken into consideration. It used to be that I was more
sloppy with variants but now (as of a few months at least) I handle variants
exactly as they should be.

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Damian Dowling" <damian-dowling@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:33 AM
Subject: [IBO] Variant method calls not supported Exception


> Hi
>
> I am getting the following exception:
>
> "Variant method calls not supported"
>
> when i call the following:
>
> // CName is a string
> // Query is TIB_Query
>
> CName := Query.FieldValues['Name'].AsString;
>
>
> the following works:
>
> CName := VarToStr(Query.FieldValues['NAME']);
>
>
> Any ideas as to why AsString is not working?
>
> Delphi 6 Pro
> IBO 4.2.Hc
>
> Regards
>
>
> Damian Dowling
> IT Manager
> Pallas Foods Ltd
>
> Phone: + 353 69 20200
> Fax: + 353 69 20201
> Email: damian-dowling@...