I have a feeling that IBO is dying, no responses, no feedback, no updates
since over a year. Wished it was put up in such a way we all could
contribute
or help, like some cvs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lester Caine" <lester@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] IBO 4.8 Under Windows Vista


> jackmason7 wrote:
>> I have two systems, a laptop running Vista and a desktop running XP.
>> On both systems, I uninstalled Delphi 7, IBO, 1stClass (Woll2Woll),
>> and InfoPower (Woll2Woll), then reinstalled 4 again to insure it was
>> apples and apples.
>>
>> On the XP desktop, everything works correctly. When the same program
>> (same modules, same search list) is compiled on the Vista system,
>> everything works the same with the exception of a varchar field named
>> NOTES (size 2048) which is part of a larger record.
>>
>> Using only a tib_database, tib_query, and a tdatasource, the NOTES
>> field is displayed incorrectly under Vista. If a record has a value
>> for NOTES (eg, 'ABC'), that value is displayed for all subsequent
>> records until another record is encountered with a non-null field NOTES.
>>
>> Once another record is found that has a non-null NOTES field, the new
>> value will be displayed for all subsequent null NOTES fields. If the
>> program is compiled under XP and executed under Vista it works
>> correctly. If the program is compiled under Vista, it has the
>> erroneous behavior described above whether it is run under XP or Vista.
>>
>> The value is not carried from record to record, that is no records are
>> modified when the display is incorrect, it is just the NOTES value
>> returned from sequential reads is incorrect. Connecting the
>> tdatasource to a grid shows the incorrect values for the NOTES field.
>>
>> A small sample database and program is available.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> I can't help you much with this except to say that there are a number of
> peculiarities appearing in Vista and there is little chance that older
> versions of the tools will ever be 'repaired'. I'm using Builder6 still
> for
> supporting applications which customers are now simply expecting to work
> on
> Vista - but have the sort of quirks you are describing. I HAD set up a
> Vista
> machine here to play with, but it was SUCH a pain that it has XP on it
> again
> now. Trying to support FOUR incompatible versions of windows is the
> nightmare,
> so at present Vista is off the list. I've just had to wipe an XP machine
> back
> to W2k for a BIG site that has yet to even consider XP. The cost of
> replacing
> several thousand machines with hardware that could RUN XP is simply a
> joke,
> and now of cause the target is supposed to be vista :(
>
> Jason - what are you doing about this in the 'day' job?
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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