Hello Jason,

the last alpha version of IBO 4.9 is really unuseable with Delphi
2009. It doesn't really support unicode.

AsString must return a string, not an AnsiString.

I can send you my last version of IBO for D2009.
Not everything is working (TIBO...-Components have problems, automatic
Text-Blob-Conversion is not implemented for FB 2.1, and a few more)

My main design desicions:
- drop support for Delphi3/4
- all handling of string conversion will be done at connection level
called by the TIB_Column Set/Get-Methods
(real conversion between connection charset and system charset)
(prefered connection charset is now UTF8)

- all string handling will be done with unicode strings
(length, uppercase, lowercase, ...)


In the moment it is only a ansi-fied version of IBO without real
unicode support.

Sorry,

Andreas