thanks Gerard,
I imagine that you use the set/get field events though to pack/unpack the
zip blobs. I am currently trying to setup IB_Column so I too can get a
set/get event going.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerhard Knapp [mailto:prometheus@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 July 2003 8:35 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: AW: [IBO] IB_Image compression ??
>
>
> hi Alan, sorry, i didn't know where to intercept
> i am a solution developer, not a system developer, and for my "automatic
> updates of my clients",
> i zip with zipmaster the exefiles and store this zipped files as binary
> blob,
> after fetching out the db i unpack this files also with zipmaster
> programmable,
> but i don't use an event in a dataset or so ...
> I only use two IBO components for my whole work this is: TIBODatabase and
> TIBOQuery,
> nothing else ... this are my connection to firebird, and with
> this i made a
> big
> software system with many programs and databasebased: mail, ticketsystem,
> workflow,
> scheduling, reports, planingmodules, automatical updates, a "just in time
> Datawarehouse",
> a mailingserver based on firebird (for email, fax and printing, worddocs
> will be filled out, with
> my own sytem of placeholders, they are stored also as Blob in db) and and
> and and ...
> now a onlinereporting with Firebird, PHP and Apacheserver (p.e.
> Jpgs will be
> streamed directly in the browser, comming out
> of db as blob), now i will try Flash-PHP-Firebird,
> all this is part of my Software Suite, a telemarketing software system.
> I was a pioneer with Delphi 1.0 and Interbase 4.0 a long time before:)
> And in a life before i can remember of Sinqlair QL Computer, Borland Turbo
> Pascal,
> VAX and Open VMS with a special kind of Pascal,
> and before Fortran 77, loooooool, and my first programm was written on
> punchcards ...
> and i am waiting and waiting for keyboard-less computers:)
> regards
> -Gerhard
> CIO & CTO Clientel Telemarketing Gmbh
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alan McDonald [mailto:alan@...]
> Gesendet: Samstag, 05. Juli 2003 11:35
> An: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: RE: [IBO] IB_Image compression ??
>
>
> > if you need BMP and cannot use JPG, then a good way could be,
> > to use ZIP, store the Picture in the zipped format, and extract it
> > after fetching out of the db ...
> > -> you could use the Zipmaster Component:
> > http://www.geocities.com/rjpeters_au/zipmaster.html
> >
> > regards
> > -Gerhard
> >
>
> This is what I'd like to do Gerard, I need to be able to intercept the
> storage of the binary file, though, before update or insert and zip the
> stream - do you know how/where to intercept it in the native datasets?
> Alan
>
>
>
>
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