>This does have a major downfall though, in 4.8.7, increasing the DB field size was
>automatically handled by both code and data aware controls, if you put Copy() into
>code to prevent exceptions you break the ability to extend storage size by simply
>modifying the database. Any field change then also requires coding changes.

If you do

IB_Cursor1.Fields[0].AsString:=COPY(Edit1.Text, 1, 10)

then yes, you have to modify your code when changing field length. However, if you do

IB_Cursor1.Fields[0].AsString:=COPY(Edit1.Text, 1, IB_Cursor1.Fields[0].SQLLen)

(or similar), then I would assume no code changes to be required when modifying the field length (though a program restart might be required).

HTH,
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