[DUG] Issue with TDBEdit component

[Phil Hayward]

Todd,
thanks for your help. That was the problem. It had totally escaped me
to look at
the setting on the TStringField's.

This is part of the issues I face changing directly from an Oracle environment
into supporting Delphi and skipping Delphi 101 ;-)

-- 
Phil Hayward


Quoting Todd Martin <toddm at kol.co.nz>:

> Are you using a persistent TStringField in your form/datamodule? If
> so, is the
> size property set?
>
> Todd.
>
> On Friday 07 Apr 2006 19:23, Phil Hayward wrote:
>> I am having problems getting a TDBEdit field to
>> recognise a new table column length.
>>
>> I have an application I have been asked to make
>> modifications to.
>> It has a TDBEdit component on the form. It has a data
>> source set and happily reads and writes back to an
>> Interbase table.
>> The table column is a varchar(25).
>> The modification required is to allow text of up to 50
>> characters be entered into the table.
>> I have altered the table column to varchar(50) I have
>> confirmed that 50 characters can be entered into the
>> column.
>> What do I now have to do to make the TDBEdit component
>> now recognise this column as a varchar(50).
>> I set the MaxLength to 50. It allows the entry of 50
>> characters but then immediately truncates the entered
>> text to 25 characters as soon as the TDBEdit component
>> loses focus on the form. On saving the data it posts
>> 25 characters to the table.
>> It would seem that I have missed a very simple setting
>> on the component. Can anyone assist.
>>
>> Regards
>> Phil
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