On 28/08/2013 11:07 a.m., IBO Support List wrote:
> Rob,
>
> I'm shooting for today so I should be plenty soon enough for you.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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