question about finding the size of a DB column

[Mike Kaganski]

Hi Dhiraj!

On 05.02.2022 17:04, Dhiraj Holden wrote:
> I have started looking at this bug 
> <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138691> about Base 
> crashing with Firebird when using a form to insert an image that does 
> not fit in a binary field. The proposed fix was to check in xref/core/ 
> forms/source/component/ImageControl.cxx whether the image was bigger 
> than the database column. In order to do this, I need to find the size 
> of the image and the column. How should I proceed?

Maybe this form control should get an optional max size property, which 
could be set according to the underlying field size; then the code could 
check that in OImageControlModel::setFastPropertyValue_NoBroadcast (for 
PROPERTY_ID_IMAGE_URL and PROPERTY_ID_GRAPHIC).

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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski