Subject Re: [IBO] FieldsDisplayFormat
Author Eko Sudarusman
Helen ...

I would like to give my salute of your quick response.
Thanks a lot.
Attachment is my zip file of "CSdemo" sample code + employee.gdb

Regards,

E. Sudarusman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 29 August, 2005 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] FieldsDisplayFormat


> At 10:30 AM 29/08/2005 +0700, you wrote:
>>In the original version of sample code of "Client/Server concept",
>>content stringlist property
>>of DmEmployee.ibSalaryHistoryTable.FieldsDisplayFormat are :
>>
>>PERCENT_CHANGE=###.####
>>OLD_SALARY=$###,###,##0.00
>>NEW_SALARY=$###,###,##0.00
>>
>>But ... it doesn't work, and still release error messages frequently "4.25
>>(or something float value) is not a valid integer value".
>
> OK, these formats look OK for extended or float types. Going by the small
> value of 4.25, I suppose the field that is throwing the exception
> is PERCENT_CHANGE. The OLD_SALARY field is a numeric(18,2), while the
> other field is a computed field.
>
> Could you get closer to where the exception is being thrown?
>
>>If I delete all contents of FieldsDisplayFormat, error message dissapear
>>though value appearance of float/numeric field column not such as I
>>expect.
>
> No, it would be ugly. I'll take a look at that code for you. It is very
> old stuff. There's a chance that it might have something in there that
> doesn't work properly with the ODS 10 data types.
>
> Would you respond back to the list, telling me what versions of database
> server and IBO you are using?
>
> For the money values, you can set the Currency attribute. This will sort
> out the appearance of the decimal part of a FP number, but it doesn't have
> the ability to display symbols.
>
> Helen
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