RE: [DUG]: Connecting to Interbase

[James Low]

Good. There are two main methods of access in IBO; one designed to maintain compatibility with BDE (the access methods are like-named) and another which apparently is more powerful but you lose that relatively seemless BDE interchangeability. I am using the former. I am avoiding the supplied controls (QBE data aware dbedits eg) so I can leap back to BDE if needed without too many tears. But if I were to use these extras life would be astoundingly simple (ie searching a dataset using my data entry form by changing one property).   To date I've had no dramas at design or runtime. There are some pretty nifty features when working with datasets such as (in design mode) the ability to execute the query and then populate a table (great for lookup tables), in the query builder defining what happens to null values/ force case sensitivity/ insensitivity etc. Everything seems to work, error messages make sense and I work just like with the BDE. And I'm access the DB natively, so I guess there will be subtle performance advantages. My only gripe (a small one) is having to pay for the manual, which to date I haven't needed.   My main objective in going to IBO was making the most of a more scalable DB (IB over Pdox), fixing the stupid stored procedure problem I was having and being able, relatively easily, to be able to port back to BDE for whatever reason. In those respects its a success - I'll let you know when I get tripped up but I have a feeling you will be waiting a while : ). -----Original Message----- From: Mark Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 June 2001 17:23 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Connecting to Interbase James Would be interested to hear how your move to IBO went. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: James Low To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:42 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Connecting to Interbase Yep - that is what I discovered too. At the point, and after finding a few limitations with manipulation of stored procedures I moved to IBO. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 June 2001 14:57 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Connecting to Interbase Hi With my Paradox database I could just use an OpenFileDialog to point to a file in the Database directory to set this before opening tables.  ie I did not have to have an Alias set up in the BDE.   It seems that to connect to Interbase (at this stage using the BDE) I must have an Alias set up.   Can someone confirm this for me please (it might save a lot of time wasting for me trying to do what can't be done)   TIA   Mark