> Hi, all! We are currently porting project source heavily dependable on
> IBObjects from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2010. Are there plans to move from
> AnsiString to UnicodeString? Like, will TIB_Column .AsString be changed to
> UnicodeString in future releases? Are there plans to fully implement
> AsWideString? Thanks in advance!

I am in the process of making things work correctly with the AsUnicodeString
and AsWideString. For the time being the AsString will continue to return an
Ansi String.

I have a more major task ahead of me to make everything work with the native
String type in Delphi 2009+. This won't be all taken into full consideration
until I release IBO 5.x which is going to be a rather major re-write of the
entire IBO component suite. The intent is to only support Delphi 2009+ woth
IBO 5.x. This enables me to take full advantage of all the new language
features. Hopefully it will make IBO much more solid, simple and versatile.

I am also going to be introducing a driver layer to better facilitate the
diverging paths of InterBase and Firebird. This opens the door to consider
bringing in other SQL back-end systems into the IBO arena. I am open to
receiving votes for favorite DB's you would like an IBO front-end to.

Jason Wharton