Has anyone managed to add a calculated field to a table at runtime?
I have a boolean variable 'IsComplete' in my form class, and I do the
following:

with Table1 do
begin
   IsComplete := True;
   OnCalcFields := Table1CalcFields;
   FieldDefs.Update;
   FieldDefs.Add('Complete', ftBoolean, 0, True);

   FieldByName('Complete').Calculated := True;
   { ^^^ EXCEPTION GENERATED HERE  ^^^ }
end;

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procedure TForm1.Table1CalcFields(Sender: TDataSet)
begin
   Sender.FieldByName('Complete').AsBoolean := IsComplete;
end;

So later on I want to be able to define what the current 'Complete' field is
by setting IsComplete as needed. Does this seem right? As it is, it generates
an exception on the marked line, saying that field 'Complete' is not found. I
have traced through, and Delphi says the following:

Table1.FieldDefs.Count = 20;
Table1.FieldDefs[19].Name = 'Complete';
Table1.FieldCount = 19; ?????

So 'Complete' is in the field definitions but not in the table? If it matters,
all my tables are Paradox.
Help!! Thanx in advance... !

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As far as I understand, and I don't much in this case, FieldDefs holds
a FieldDef for every single _physical_ column in the table. So, while
adding to fielddefs suggests that you are modifying your table's
structure, it is not - lucky us...:-) - which explains why
fielddefs.count returns a number different from fieldcount. Fieldcount
returns the number of columns in the dataset. If you had limited that
to only a few columns, that's the count you would have seen...

What you - and I - were missing is the fact that there are in fact no
TFields added to the dataset and that's the bottleneck causing the
exception. Anyway, I do it like follows (forgive me the standard
Delphi syntax on that calculated field) and it works:

   Table1Complete := TBooleanField.Create(Table1);
   Table1Complete.FieldName := 'Complete';
   Table1Complete.Calculated := True;
   Table1Complete.DisplayLabel := 'Complete';
   Table1.DisableControls;
   Table1.Close;
   Table1Complete.Dataset := Table1;
   Table1.Open;
   Table1.EnableControls;

Of course, Table1Complete is a TBooleanField of the TForm1 class.

Have fun!

Jasper

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