Hi Jason

Thanks for the reply. Yes it really does seem to work!

I must just have been looking at an empty field. In my defense I was
sick on Thursday :)


Rob Martin
Software Engineer

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Wild Software Ltd



Jason L. Wharton wrote:

>> Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I am having some
>> trouble accessing text stored in a blob field from Delphi.
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>> Should .AsString work? Even using a TDBMemo doesn't display the results
>> (Although help implies it should). I think I am doing something stupid !
>>
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> AsString should work fine. It will cause the blob to load if it hasn't
> already loaded. Referencing DisplayText will not cause the blob to be
> loaded and if it isn't loaded will present the field name with parenthesis
> around it.
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