[lazarus] streaming error with TIBDatabase

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Mon, 12 May 2003 07:13:09 +0800
> hernan.et at pg.com wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At least I have confirmed that there is indeed a problem with TIBDatabase.
> > Here is what I have found this weekend. Whenever you drop TIBDatabase
> > control into a form, the name property is not there. I have put in lots of
> > writeln in Writer.inc I found that it is somehow reading a property but I
> > cannot pin down what property it is. Hope some Lazarus/Fpc guru out there
> > can have a look on this. This problem is beyond my comprehension.
>
> It's a compiler bug.
> When a forward defined class is used as type for a published property, the
> class has no RTTI information about its properties. I reported it as #2492.
> This is the case for TDataBase and TDBDataSet.

Wouldn't the simple fix be to declare these properties in
TDatabase/TDBDataset as public instead of Published, and to change them
in the descendent classes as published ?

Michael.