Gaurav Sood wrote:

>>The BDE, dont use it. There are lots of better components to use. It
>>is probably the netfiles or a lck file or something, but it is not
>>worth using. Borland have discontinued it anyway. If you are just
>>getting started with Firebird, use any other component.
>
> Would you recommend using www.ibobjects.com - IB Objects ? I have to change
> a whole software program with multiple pages of reports over from the
> existing queries using BDE over to IBO if you recommend using another
> component, and am not sure whether I have the time to learn IBO unless its
> really worth it and easy enough to pick up....
>
> Any further comments on that ?

*ANY* of the other component libraries are better then BDE
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_dev_comps

I spent a considerable amount of time trying to get BDE working with
Firebird, and attempted a switch to IBO twice before changing. The
switch is not easy, but then switching to any thing else will not be
easy. IBO works for me, porting applications from BDE can be easy but
then I have not tried anything else so I can't comment if any of the
others are better :)

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