Hi all,

Can anyone kindly point me in the direction of a sample or two on how to
implement ADTs or Arrays using D5 and IB5.5. The demos and help are
unpleasantly quiet on the subject, Google and Tamarack don't have very
much and there doesn't seem to be much else out there.

I can create the array at the DB end, not a problem. But what next? A
UDF to get it in and out of Delphi? Yes, I've read chapter 9 of the IB
Programmer's Guide. And how about ADTs? That would be the way to go for
what I want to do but how to define them and then get them into a DB and
back out into a grid of some sort? *Someone* must use the damn things
*somewhere*. IB can't just have included them to increase its bloatware
rating. But then they don't seem to have put a real lot about them in
the help.

Any pointers *very* gratefully received.

TIA

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Ian Jennings
Microware Data Services Limited

Second, arrays aren't well supported.  Neither SPs or triggers can do a lot
with them.
I know some people using Delphi+IBO+Interbase use arrays, but I don't think
it ever will be totally satisfying (because of lack of support in
SPs/Triggers).
I don't know about IBX, but if IBO (www.ibobjects.com) is an option for you,
you could ask in the IBO newsgroup (link from the IBO site).

Regards,
Aage J.

Thanks for the info. I was guessing as much when I couldn't find
*anything*, despite several hours searching the web and archives. I was
just hoping that someone, somewhere had managed to do *something* with
them. Seems not. If there was anything free going then I was interested
but I've been off sick for 12 months and haven't got the spare cash to
go buying anything at the moment.

I was going to have a fiddle around putting a UDP in a DLL but it isn't
worth it. It's only one table (a journal-type thing) and disk space is
cheap. :) I'll just have to have another trigger and a bit more traffic.

Thanks for the help and for confirming that I'm not really losing the
plot.

Regards

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Ian Jennings
Microware Data Services Limited

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Aage J.