Question

I am using Delphi XE2 to write a VCL win32 application. Delphi XE2 support live binding. I load sample Biolife.xml into a TClientDataSet instance.

I able to bind a TEdit control to dataset’s string field: Species Name:

object BindLinkEdit11: TBindLink
  Category = 'Links'
  SourceMemberName = 'Species Name'
  ControlComponent = Edit1
  SourceComponent = BindScopeDB1
  ParseExpressions = <>
  FormatExpressions = <
    item
      ControlExpression = 'Text'
      SourceExpression = 'DisplayText'
    end>
  ClearExpressions = <>
end

I then trying to bind Graphic field to TImage control:

object BindLinkImage11: TBindLink
  Category = 'Links'
  SourceMemberName = 'Graphic'
  ControlComponent = Image1
  SourceComponent = BindScopeDB1
  ParseExpressions = <>
  FormatExpressions = <
    item
      ControlExpression = 'Picture'
      SourceExpression = 'Value'
    end>
  ClearExpressions = <>
end

Apparently, it doesn’t work. Is that possible to do so?

Answer 1

Take a look into the BindLinkVCLProject demo project. There is shown also a binding for the image, so my guess is you need to do it this way (the Self in SourceExpression represents a blob field):

object BindLinkImageHandler: TBindLink
  Category = 'Links'
  SourceMemberName = 'Graphic'
  ControlComponent = Image1
  SourceComponent = BindScopeDB1
  ParseExpressions = <
    item
      ControlExpression = 'Picture'
      SourceExpression = 'Self'
    end>
  FormatExpressions = <
    item
      ControlExpression = 'Picture'
      SourceExpression = 'Self'
    end>
  ClearExpressions = <
    item
      ControlExpression = 'Picture'
      SourceExpression = 'nil'
    end>
end