--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <albis@e...>
wrote:

> barfingdog_2004 wrote:
> > Thank you Oliver and Dan:
> >
> > I'm having a tough time thinking like a Firebird user.
> >
> > I'm not finding "Connected". Please help me out.
>
> Why don't you just use simple bool flag? Like this:
>
> bool Connected = false;
> try
> {
> db->Connect();
> Connected = true;
> }
> catch (
>
> Later you simply check the value of Connected variable.
> HTH

Thanks Milan:

That's what I'm doing now.

My first question is "Does IBPP have a method that
will provide this information?"

My second question is "Why can't I see posts to the
IBPP discussion group that were submitted in the last
month?"

Thanks
Larry