The problem is because IBX does nothing with the contents of the BLOB
whereas IBO does handle the interpretation of BLR and converts it from BLR
to text using the built-in blob filter.

If you are putting BMP in a system BLR sub type expect problems.

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com]On
> Behalf Of Helen Borrie
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:38 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] Blobs not loaded in IBO application
>
>
> At 05:18 AM 18/05/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> >Thanx Helen, but i still with my problem...
> >
> >I'd found that when i'm accesing to this field with IBO the wizard of
> >the "Edit Query" option says:
> >"*** blr version 38401228 is not supported ***"
> >
> >My Database is using SQL Dialect 3 and this is the metadata
> of my table:
> >
> >CREATE TABLE "ObrasCulturales" (
> > "Obr_Clave" INTEGER NOT NULL,
> > "Obr_FormadeIngreso" INTEGER,
> > "Obr_Foto" BLOB sub_type 2 segment size 1);
> >
> >As you can see this is the way i'm defining my blob field and works
> >perfectly with IBX... why i'm experiencing this problem?
>
> Blob sub_type 2 is a system blob type that stores BLR (a kind
> of "pcode"
> that the db engine uses to precompile database objects).
> Segment size 1
> isn't valid; but that shouldn't matter, since it is ignored
> by Firebird,
> anyway.
>
> I don't know why it seems to work in IBX. Maybe IBX has some
> editor built
> in that can make sense of BLR - who knows? Why do you need it?
>
> Helen