[fpc-pascal] Assigning value to ftVariant datatype & varbytes-still stuck

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 12:53:17 CEST 2011


On 7-8-2011 19:50, Ludo Brands wrote:
> TBufDataset doesn't support ftVarBytes and ftVariant. Variants are complex
> objects and aren't stored by just copying bytes. Don't use them with
> TBufDataset.
> 
> Ludo
> 
... cause they have some kind of structure that describes what kind of
data the variable/field actually contains and a pointer to memory
containing the actual data? Just guessing...

Anyway, once again thanks a lot for the help, I've updated my test code
and posted
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19930

Reinier



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