Ed,

> I am having a problem with what appears to be IB/FB fields and my
> editors (DevExpress). When I set the value of a float field, the
> editor no longer respects the decimal places I told it to have (e.g.
> 2) and it gets very long.
>
> For example, if I set a field value to 50.3, I get 53.2999992370605
> showing up in the editor.
>
> I understand the problem with float fields their binary
> representation in memory--that doesn't fix this.
>
> Just to check things out I switched over to a dfferent (in-memory)
> dataset and using the same values and field classes and everything
> worked just fine.
>
> I also switched the field to a DECIMAL(15,4) and this fixed it as
> well.
>
> But should I have to do that? Why have other dataset's/databases
> worked fine with the same class structure?

What version of IBO are you working with?
I've had some corrections to floats in the not too distant past.

Jason