Rob,

I'm shooting for today so I should be plenty soon enough for you.

Jason

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From: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IBObjects@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Martin
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 3:31 PM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBO] Data type char issues (for lack of a better subject)

Hi

Thanks for the offer Jason. However I now have another project to do
(D2007 and IBO 4.8) so for the next few days I will be working on that.
If you think build 8 might be finished late this week / early next, I can
probably just wait :)

Thanks
Rob

On 27/08/2013 5:14 p.m., IBO Support List wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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