This looks like a unicode issue - is the Grower field a unicode field in your database.
I had a similar issue with porting a database from the BDE to firebird under D2009 - I just made the firebird database use the ascii characters rather than utf-8 or what ever it was using by default. Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Willie Juson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’ve been trolling the net trying to find info about this and I’m > struggling to find anything useful.... We have a D2007 app that we > are porting to 2010. After some initial issues (mostly project paths > and component set compatibility stuff) we get everything to compile ok > but when we run the app we are getting exceptions when opening > datasets for example .... > > > > EDatabase error myclientdataset: Type Mismatch for field ‘Grower’ > expecting string: actual WideString: > > > > where “Grower” is a persistent field on the Clientdataset > (TStringField) and accompanying TIBQuery(TIBStringField) > > > > It seems you fix this by changing the ClientDataset “Grower” Field > type to be a TWideStringField. > > > > Is this the only way to fix this – change all declarations of > TStringField to TWideStringField in persistent TClientDataset fields? > I was hoping there might be some other way, like a compiler directive > or a setting for the IBDatabase component that we use for the DB > connection.... > > > > Any ideas would be appreciated > > > > Thanks > > > > Willie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
