[fpc-pascal] TField.Attributeset explanation?

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Alex Shishkin wrote:

> 05.09.2011 12:30, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be пишет:
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>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
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>> That is normal.
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>> Just set the 'Required' property of the CUSTNO field to False.
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>> Forget the 'Attributeset' property. It's not used in FPC.
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>> (in fact, I don't even know what it's for or where it comes from)
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>> Michael.
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> http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/delphivclwin32/DB_TField_AttributeSet.html

In short, Delphi also no longer uses it, as TTable and TQuery are BDE
components and they are deprecated. None of the newer technologies uses the
data dictionary.

I never understood why they abandoned their data dictionary technology :/

Michael.