--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Jason Wharton" <supportlist@...> wrote:

>
> > 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
>

Hi, Jason,
Thank you for clarification. We have been using IBObjects since 2000. Our projects (actually, a single client-server application suite) currently use Firebird exclusively. Transition to Delphi 2010 (with its own issues) together with IBO incompatibility plus new development tasks are rather challenging for the team. Hope IBO 5.x will come soon enough. Good luck!

Konstantin Oleynikov
BroadView Software Inc.