[fpc-devel] TFieldDef.Size vs TField.Size

[Martin Schreiber]

On Thursday 24 February 2011 08:02:20 LacaK wrote:
> So also here we can see, that FieldDef.Size is expected to be number of
> characters not bytes.
>
> So IMHO logical conclusion will be say, that TFieldDef.Size for string
> fields has same menaing as Field.Size, so it is number of characters
> (so documentation is wrong in this case ... also fast test in Delphi
> shows, that FieldDef.Size=Field.Size=number of characters)
>
Agreed. In MSEgui tmsestringfield.size is the maximum allowed character count 
for the field. 0 = no limit. tmsebufdataset stores string data as 
UnicodeString instead to use a fixed record layout. With some databases it is 
a little bit tricky to get the field size in characters instead in bytes.
In case you don't know MSEgui:

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/mseide-msegui/

Martin