Problem with BCD Fields

rbuser

Hi Jim!

I have noticed that RB6.03 doesn't recognise FMTBCD fields. It simply
handles them as string fields, this is bad because you can't do calculations
with tppDBCalc fields with them...

In further response to an older answer of your's:

Creating a custom format does not really solve the problem that RB (6.0.3)
doesn't recognise FMTBCD's as _numbers_.

When trying to apply a TppDBCalc to those fields, the calculation won't work
(i.e. the result is allways zero) because those fields are handled as
strings by RB. How should I handle those fields?

Regards,
Olaf

digitalmetaphors

We'll continue researching this issue. For now, if RB sees them as strings,
so you can use a TppVariable and code the OnCalc event handler to perform
the calculation. Set the variable's Datatype to double and perform the
calculation like: Value := Value + DataPipeline['myFieldName']; You can
use the display formatting on the Variable if its datatype is set correctly
form the drop down box. Thankyou for your patience.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Ok - this works. But it doesn't if I have end user reports (without RAP).
There I'm a little bit stuck now...

Regards,
Olaf