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Edited text of question

Hi whedhoest,

It's posible to create a TQRDBText component at runtime.
Something like this will get you started

var
  qrSomeField :TQRDBText;
begin
  qrSomeField := TQRDBText.Create(nil);
  qrSomeField.Dataset := yourDataset;
  qrSomeField.Datasource := yourDatasource;
  ...........
  ...........
  qrSomeField := nil;
end;

Sorry don't have the time right now to work this out in more detail, but this should get you in the right direction.

PS. if you like I will give it a better look at the other side of the day.

Just had a look at Whedhoest comment.

What he suggests will work except that you don't know how many columns you're going to have at design time preventing you to declare the Field variables before compiling.

The way I suggest is in essence the same at that which Whedhoest suggests except that it allows you to create as many columns as you need at runtime. In this way you don't have to know how many variables you need to declare. As a matter of fact, because of the way the QRDBText components are created ( With TQRDBText.Create(Self) do begin) and accessed at a later stage
(With FindComponent('WhatEverTheNameOfTheComponentIs') do) you don't have to declare variables at all to store the component into.

The method used here makes it totally dynamic which is exactly what you are looking for.

Need to correct the code I submitted in the answer:

Because FindObject return a TObject you will need to typecast the result to be able to get access to it's properties

Examle for the above code:

  With TQRDBText(FindComponent('WhatEverTheNameOfTheComponentIs')) do begin
          Visible := False;
  end;

AND

   With TQRDBText(FindComponent('qr_' + WhatEverTheFieldNameIs)) do begin
           Free;
   end;