On Sunday 10 February 2008 11:13 am, Ed Leafe wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> > I changed to the svn version of Dabo(3910). The Editable property

> > still does not persist but I do not get a core dump.

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> I guess you could call that progress. ;-)

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> I still haven't had the time to track that down. I started working on

> it, and confirmed that the property is being set correctly by the

> Class Designer, but is then reverted at some point. I haven't been

> able to find what is causing it to revert to Editable=False.

The strange part is that even though Editable!=True I can edit the column in

the grid and the value is saved to the database.

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> > Instead I get the following error message at the point where it used

> > to dump.

> > Dabo Error Log: Sun Feb 10 10:09:13 2008: !!! Data Type Mismatch:

> > field=qty. Expecting: <class 'decimal.Decimal'>; got: <type 'unicode'>

> > The field 'qty' is Numeric in the Postgres table. Is there a way to

> > tell Dabo the value entered is a Decimal?

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> Numerics should be represented inside of Dabo by Decimal if you have

> the Decimal module available, or float if you do not. Since you are

> running Python 2.5.1, you should have Decimal available to you.

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> Also, it seems Dabo is aware of the type, as it says that it is

> expecting a decimal, but didn't get one. At what point does this

> message appear?

It appears after I enter the value in a grid column and tab to the next

column. To answer Johns question, this is in a ClassDesigner form created by

clicking on Run in the CD File menu.

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