BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  FieldByName('Latitude').Text; --- It is truncating the value          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Databases (ADO) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Mark Moss Guest Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:33 am    Post subject: FieldByName('Latitude').Text; --- It is truncating the value Ladies / Gentlemen I am using ADO to access a MSSQL Server and when I issue the following it only returns the decimals out to 4 places and I need to go the six DM.dmCU.adoqCU.FieldByName('Latitude').Text; Mark Moss Back to top Guillem Guest Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:39 pm    Post subject: Re: FieldByName('Latitude').Text; --- It is truncating the v Mark Moss wrote: Quote: Ladies / Gentlemen I am using ADO to access a MSSQL Server and when I issue the following it only returns the decimals out to 4 places and I need to go the six DM.dmCU.adoqCU.FieldByName('Latitude').Text; Mark Moss do not use the Text property, use the AsXxx equivalent method that you need -- Best regards :) Guillem Vicens Meier Dep. Informatica Green Service S.A. www.clubgreenoasis.com -- Contribute to the Indy Docs project: http://docs.indyproject.org -- In order to contact me remove the -nospam Back to top Mark Moss Guest Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:58 pm    Post subject: Re: FieldByName('Latitude').Text; --- It is truncating the v Guillem Thanks for reminding me about '.AsFloat' etc. BUT - I tried all of them and it is giving me me following Stored in DataBase = '29.475256' As Returned by FieldByName('Latitude').AsFloat = '29.4753' which is even rounded Any Ideas? Mark Moss "Guillem" <guillemvicens-nospam (AT) clubgreenoasis (DOT) com> wrote in message news:xn0enfcpd51pj5002 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Mark Moss wrote: Ladies / Gentlemen I am using ADO to access a MSSQL Server and when I issue the following it only returns the decimals out to 4 places and I need to go the six DM.dmCU.adoqCU.FieldByName('Latitude').Text; Mark Moss do not use the Text property, use the AsXxx equivalent method that you need -- Best regards :) Guillem Vicens Meier Dep. Informatica Green Service S.A. www.clubgreenoasis.com -- Contribute to the Indy Docs project: http://docs.indyproject.org -- In order to contact me remove the -nospam Back to top Brian Bushay TeamB Guest Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:59 am    Post subject: Re: FieldByName('Latitude').Text; --- It is truncating the v Quote: Ladies / Gentlemen I am using ADO to access a MSSQL Server and when I issue the following it only returns the decimals out to 4 places and I need to go the six DM.dmCU.adoqCU.FieldByName('Latitude').Text; My guess is that Delphi is treating your field as a BCD. If you want more than 4 decimals you need to change the field type to Tfloat. See the EnableBCD property of your Tadodataset or other ADO dataset component -- Brian Bushay (TeamB) Bbushay (AT) NMPLS (DOT) com Back to top Guillem Guest Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:19 pm    Post subject: Re: FieldByName('Latitude').Text; --- It is truncating the v Mark Moss wrote: Quote: Any Ideas? I would try setting EnableBCD to false as Brian pointed out -- Best regards :) Guillem Vicens Meier Dep. 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