Records & Longstrings

Thanks for your answer. I get the general idea of what is going on here, but am having trouble implementing the answer (storing string in kstring and then assigning kstring to a string). I get errors regarding the incompatibility between string and kstring or that acutal and formal parameters need to be identical.  Could you please give me a simple example of how to implement this. (I am very new to Delphi)?

I have been able to implement this with error free code, but when I run ( a sample program see below), I always get a EAccessViolation error. It seems to be coming from the getks function?

Type
kstring = record
kslen: integer;
ksdata:array[1..1024] of char
end;

procedure putks(instring:string;var outks:kstring);
begin
outks.kslen := length(instring);
move(instring[1],outks.ksdata,length(instring));
end;

function getks(inks:kstring):string;
var
tmpstr:string;
begin
move(inks.ksdata,tmpstr[1],inks.kslen);
SetLength(tmpstr,inks.kslen);
getks := tmpstr;
end;

Type
Emp_Rec = record
Emp_Id:string[10];
Emp_Name:string[40];
Emp_Notes:kstring;
end;

var
Employee: Emp_Rec;

procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
Employee.Emp_Id := Edit1.Text;
Putks(Edit1.Text, Employee.Emp_Notes);
end;

procedure TForm2.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
Memo1.Text := getks(Employee.Emp_Notes);
end;