Is it possible to declare a new overriden variable
type or function wrapper, to change these 'strings'
to, which then automatically compiles into the
proper String or AnsiString ? This change to your
code would would only be required once.

Alike Jason overrode many of the functions in 4.9

----- Original Message -----
From: "m. Th." <th@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: [IBO] IBO - IB_String vs AnsiString


> Hi,
>
> The ones who have the IBO 4.9 know that many String types where changed
> to AnsiString.
>
> While this is understandable, taking in account the amount of work
> required, this is unfortunate in certain areas like the ones who deal
> with the query parsing. I mean primarily code blocks (methods,
> procedures etc.) like Get/SetSQLWhere, SQLOrder etc. This means that
> when we use these code blocks we cannot use Unicode.
>
> But the problem here is that the _interface_ (iow the declaration) of
> these code blocks is changed. So we must change our variables to
> AnsiString in order to compile.
>
> There are some solutions here:
>
> 1. To use in _our_ code a string type like IB_String = AnsiString and
> when change it gradually to String when the library changes it's
> interface.
>
> 2. To use in _library's_ code the same approach as above. The 2nd has
> also the advance that we'll know where are the places in the library
> where 'AnsiString' must be changed back and where it must stay
> 'AnsiString'.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> m. Th.
>
>
>
>
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