--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> Yes, the data access components are incompatible. But the service
> components are fine - just use a separate TIBODatabase component to

connect

> to from the IBX service comps.
>
> However, there is an IBO version of the components available, by L .
> Mengoni., IBOAdmin. Download from www.mengoni.it. You can also

download,

> from the Files list of the IBO users' list site
> (www.yahoogroups.com/community/ibobjects) some dead-simple demo

projects I

> did for someone, one using the IBX version and one the IBOAdmin
> version. (You need to be logged in at the list site to get at the

files).

>
> And more... the mengoni version of IBOAdmin is for Delphi is for Delphi
> 6. Mark Pickersgill did a Delphi 5 version, in case you need that.

It's

> at http://www.ibobjects.com/ibocontributed.html (no login needed).
>
>
> >Do you still recommend using IBX for this?
>
> I don't think there's any reason not to, at least up to Delphi 6.
>
> ./heLen

Thanks heLen. I really don't want to get bogged down trying to make
IBX happy with patched versions of fbclient.dll, so the IBOAdmin
components should be just what I need.

I'm still curious why CreateProcess/gbak don't work, but at least I
have a solution now.

Tom