on Helen,
yes i tried IBX, (backup and restore, not the install-feature) and they works well with Firebird at this moment ..
The Install i only tested with IB6 ..

But i have to think further ahaed in the future, if i will be serious ...
If i make such a decision (alter my fundumental database) i have to think
on many things ... and if the author of IBX says: i don't support Firebird,
i forget IBX in this moment ...

unfortunately i am not confirm in programming with the API services ...
at first i have to understand all the API-mechanism, structures and so on ....,
and this takes to much time in my situation in this moment...

>and it's not rocket science to build a GUI for the command-line tools.

i hope not, but if you had a ferrari, you don't want drive then a VW :)
of course, before the API services and IBX exists, we made such things ...
now i have a very good graphical interface (part of the software design) and i don't
want give it up, only i am not possible to use the API...

>IBO components give you access to quite a substantial
>proportion of the "so-called Services API" through isc_info* calls

question: is it possible to get back the backup and resore - output in my program?
this is all what i want: start backup/restore, with the options, and watch the process
and progress in the delphi-program...
The IBXInstall feature i can replace with my own ..

>The admin tools assume that you know SQL. To build a GUI that makes the metadata transparent to an absolute beginner would require a major development project. The developers of the tools available (there are a lot and most of them are good-to-excellent) focus on the needs of developers doing production work and assume their users understand what they are doing.

okay, the admintool, from what i dream, doesn't declare SQL-language, its
only a tool, but a good one ...

IBO: its really nice, i changed a half hour before a big module from BDE and IB -> IBO.
-and now its works again!!
i had only few problems:

some statemants as: q_anp.requestlive:= false and so on ....
todo: delete

and the: <Select new_id from storedprocedure> didn't work in a normal IBOquery,
todo: i had to replace it with the IB_Storedproc - component

IBO seems to be a very good choice, thanks

- gerhard



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