[fpc-pascal] How to customize a TDBMemo

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

Hello,

I am using a TDBMemo with a TSdfDataset, but this database uses
newlines to separate the records, so it's impossible to store data
with multiple lines.

So I thougth that I could do a trick, and process the data before
showing in the TDBMemo and also before sending it again to the
database. I would store newlines as a special character, say # in the
database and then convert them to new lines to show in the TDBMemo.
How can this be achieved?

I could not find events which would allow me to do this, so I tryed to
create a TDBMemo descendent and override some method, but this also
doesn't work, because I would need to access private fields in TDBMemo
(specially FDataLink).

Do I really need to create a completely new component or is there some
strategy to customize the existing TDBMemo?

thanks,
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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho