<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_6293" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_7475">I just fixed my program so we are back to the original problem</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_6293" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_6293" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_6817">"Invalid variant type cast" on ApplyUpdates</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_6293" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_6293" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415263581193_7478">i repeat, i can post the record, but i cannot read or write a record that has data on this field to the database</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 10:30 PM, Chris Rempas <crori49@yahoo.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8130768977"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_13987"><span id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_15624">so where do i send the flowers? :)</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_13987"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_13987"><span id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_15659">and another question...</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_13987"><span id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_15626">where is the conversation about the string <---> UTF8Sting convertions?</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_13987"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8130768977yui_3_16_0_1_1415218963211_13987">i had to use UTF8String in a library and is not compiling now because i call UTF8Delete and it says that parameter arguments must match exactly</div> <div class="yiv8130768977qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv8130768977yqt0313760757" id="yiv8130768977yqt12410"><div class="yiv8130768977yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:50 PM, Joost van der Sluis <joost@cnoc.nl> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv8130768977y_msg_container">On 11/05/2014 10:39 AM, Chris Rempas wrote:<br clear="none">> You were correct!<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> changing to the correct path does not compile again!<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> i get just one line with error :<br clear="none">> registerfcl.pas(43,3) Fatal: Can not find unit ServiceManager used by<br clear="none">> RegisterFCL. Check if package FCL is in the dependencies.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You could try to run Free Pascal on the command-line (powershell). Try <br clear="none">'ppc386 -vut'. Then see which fpc.cfg is being used. Open that file and <br clear="none">search for lines that start with '-Fu' and see if the path is correct. <br clear="none">(It should point to c:\pp - if that's where you've installed fpc)<div class="yiv8130768977yqt0985365451" id="yiv8130768977yqtfd41253"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Joost.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>