Are you using a persistent TStringField in your form/datamodule? If so, is the size property set?
Todd. On Friday 07 Apr 2006 19:23, Phil Hayward wrote: > I am having problems getting a TDBEdit field to > recognise a new table column length. > > I have an application I have been asked to make > modifications to. > It has a TDBEdit component on the form. It has a data > source set and happily reads and writes back to an > Interbase table. > The table column is a varchar(25). > The modification required is to allow text of up to 50 > characters be entered into the table. > I have altered the table column to varchar(50) I have > confirmed that 50 characters can be entered into the > column. > What do I now have to do to make the TDBEdit component > now recognise this column as a varchar(50). > I set the MaxLength to 50. It allows the entry of 50 > characters but then immediately truncates the entered > text to 25 characters as soon as the TDBEdit component > loses focus on the form. On saving the data it posts > 25 characters to the table. > It would seem that I have missed a very simple setting > on the component. Can anyone assist. > > Regards > Phil _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
