TReferenceField.Size Property

Indicates the size used in the definition of the physical database field for data types that support different sizes.

Pascal

property Size: Integer;

C++

__property int Size;

Description

The interpretation of Size depends on the data type. The meaning of Size for data types that use it is given in the following table. For all other data types, Size is not used and its value is always 0.

DataType	Meaning of Size
ftBCD	Size is the number of digits after the decimal place.
ftString	Size is the maximum number of characters in the string.
ftVarBytes	Size is the maximum number of bytes of data, not counting the first two bytes which indicate the actual number of bytes of data that were used.
ftBytes	Size is the maximum number of bytes of data.
ftBlob	Size is the number of bytes from the BLOB that are stored in the record buffer.
ftDBaseOle	Size is the number of bytes from the dBASE OLE BLOB that are stored in the record buffer.
ftFMTBCD	Size is the number of digits after the decimal place.
ftFmtMemo	Size is the number of bytes from the memo that are stored in the record buffer.
ftGraphic	Size is the number of bytes from the image that are stored in the record buffer.
ftMemo	Size is the number of characters from the memo that are stored in the record buffer.
ftParadoxOle	Size is the number of bytes from the Paradox OLE BLOB that are stored in the record buffer.
ftTypedBinary	Size is the number of bytes from the BLOB that are stored in the record buffer.
ftADT	Size is the total number of fields contained in the ADT field, including the fields of child fields that are of type ADT.
ftArray	Size is the number of elements in the array.