Peter, is this what Food Stuffs uses in the new system I see Pack'n Save
Papanui is using on its checkout systems? i.e. FIB ?
Jeremy Coulter
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> Another point: I now wish we had never used the BDE but at the time !4
> months ago), FIB was not as good and IBO seemed to complex. The main
> problem I find with the BDE is that a connection is a database is a
> transaction. FIB and IBO seperate the transaction from the connection -
> eg, you can have multiple connections per trannie.
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> Switching the bde with IBO or FIB is probably not too hard as they both
> have dataset components.
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> "Simon Mahony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 19/04/99 12:17:48
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> Peter,
> On a tangent to your query, what benefits do the FIB components offer over
> IBObjects, and where can I find them. We're getting our Interbase
> installation set up for testing this week.
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> Cheers,
> Simon Mahony,
> System Creator,
> MetService.
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> > I had a play on the weekend with FIB (Free Interbase) components and
> > managed some success but when it came time to connect a FIB
> > Dataset to a
> > provider I get an error 'Invalid Field Type'. I had guessed that this
> > might be because FIB creates TFIBStringFields rather than normal
> > TStringFields so I manually created fields and specified the
> > type as String
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> > Anyone got any ideas on this?
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