It isn't quite finalized but you could work with a snapshot of my code that
will have all of the fixes I have made so far. I'm pretty sure all of your
fixes are already committed into my primary development repository. I can
just send you a zip of the raw sources in their present state or you can
wait until I finally make the release final.

Jason

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From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Martin
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 3:40 PM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBO] Data type char issues (for lack of a better subject)

AWESOME !!!

When can I get my hands on build 8?

Cheers
Rob

On 27/08/2013 6:36 a.m., IBO Support List wrote:
> I took notice of this and I added the ability to have field
> compatibility with ftFixedWideChar.
>
> This will be included in Build 8.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Robert Martin
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:31 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] Data type char issues (for lack of a better
> subject)
>
> Hi
>
> Further to my previous email I found some web links that talk about
> the same sort of issue with ADO, Don't know if this helps but the fix
> was along the lines of...
>
> compatible:= FieldDef.DataType in
> [ftstring,ftwidestring,ftfixedWideChar]
> Original :
> compatible:= FieldDef.DataType in [ftstring,ftwidestring]
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
> On 26/08/2013 4:18 p.m., Robert Martin wrote:
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> Have been working on moving to Delphi XE2 (from 2007) and also to new
>> versions of IBO and now FB itself. We wanted to avoid changing the
>> DB version as well but unfortunately it seems that 2.0 had some UTF
issues.
>>
>> Anyway mostly though the process and just popped our software on a FB
>> 2.5.2 virtual machine. Copied a backup of a DB across and restored
>> so that it would be 2.5.2 format. The DB is specified as UTF8. When
>> I open screens I get messages like ....
>>
>> Query: Type mismatch for field 'fieldname', expecting: String actual
>> FixedWideChar.
>>
>>
>> These fields are defined in the DB as Char(1). It appears they are
>> defined as persistent fields and that when connecting to a FB 2.5.2
>> they are now returning as a different type. It appears the following
>> is true
>>
>> a) Delphi 2007 - IBO 4.8.7 - FB 2.0 WORKS
>> b) Delphi 2007 - IBO 4.8.7 - FB 2.5.2 WORKS
>> c) Delphi XE2 - IBO 5.2.0.6 - FB 2.0 WORKS
>> d) Delphi XE2 - IBO 5.2.0.6 - FB 2.5.2 FAILS
>>
>> This is pretty major for us, what should I do?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
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