John wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 05:42:57 pm Ed Leafe wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 2009, at 8:22 PM, John wrote:
>>> Currently I don't believe Dabo supports binary objects.  For example
>>> update
>>> does not work.
>>      It sure does; I demonstrated that with the original port of the old
>> Northwind database and the images that came along with that.
> 
>>
>> -- Ed Leafe
> 
> For the life of me I can't figure out how you were able to get the image data 
> into the table.  Any chance the code is lying around that demo's the steps.
> 
> I was able to create a simple file using img2py.py as suggested by the doc 
> string in dabo/dabo/ui/uiwx/__init__.py.
> 
> I'm able to use the file created (from img2py).  I can display the image data 
> etc... by using the file created by img2py.
> 
> 
>  The trouble comes when I need to save the image data to the database. Either 
> Dabo complains or I get a database error.  The Dabo attempts to convert the 
> data to a quoted string and if I attempt to by pass Dabo by making changes 
> then the database complains that I have an encoding problem.  
> 
> 
> So if that code is around I sure would like to see it.

Just a quick check: is the field defined as a BLOB in your datastructure? (Type 
L for 
bLob).

Paul


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