Subject Re: [IBO] D3 IBO4 Floating point help needed
Author Jason Wharton
Please do me a favor and send me a very simple sample application and I'll
give it a look.

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


----- Original Message -----
From: "bmckenna6" <bmckenna@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: [IBO] D3 IBO4 Floating point help needed


> w/D3.02, IBO 4.2Hd, Firebird/IB Dialect 3:
>
> Assigning a double to an IBOTable field in a small test app
> is throwing an 'invalid floating point error.'
>
> It appears that the IBODataset is interpreting the double
> as an SQLtype SQL_INT64_ {SQLtype 581}.
>
> The actual value appears correctly within the tooltip
> debugger when reading the 'buffer^', however the ScaleExtended
> function is scaling this value up and into a value beyond
> 32-bit integer range...
>
> Is this problem unique to IBO 4xx ?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.