It is very possible that it is a bug that I need to address.
Will you furnish a sample application that shows the problem you are experiencing.

Jason Wharton
www.ibobjects.com

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Jason,

It appears that whenever the CreateBlobStream method is passed a
bsmReadWrite mode-parameter, it's unable to read from the stream,
regardless of how the stream is created (from either a TIB_Query or
e.g. using TIB_BlobStream.CreateForColumn).

Using bsmRead when reading from the stream does work correctly, as
does bsmWrite when writing to the stream. But if it's not a bug,
what's the bsmReadWrite parameter for (implying you cannot read from
or write to the same stream) ?

Best regards,

Michael

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> Use the TIB_Dataset.CreateBlobStream() method instead of directly
instantiating your own instance.
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> Jason Wharton
> www.ibobjects.com
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> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble reading/writing from a blobstream. After
opening a
> TIB_Query with a blob field, I create the blobstream field:
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> FStream := TIB_BlobStream (FDS.CreateBlobStream(FDS.FieldByName
> (FBlobFieldName), bsmReadWrite));
>
> If the mode is set to bsmReadWrite, the internal blobstream size is
> set to 0, and all subsequent reads from the stream will fail. When
> using bsmRead, however, the size is assigned correctly, but writing
> is not possible. The query is in edit mode and the blobfield is not
> ReadOnly. In addition, when opening the field in bsmReadWrite mode,
> I can write to the stream without any problems.
>
> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>
> Best regards and thanks,
>
> Michael