I noticed on this newsgroup, that most people prefer to use the Native IBO components over the TDataSet versions and was wondering why ? I use TIB_DSQL, TIB_Cursor and TIB_Script pretty regularly, but for binding data aware components I typically use TIBOQuery. My primary reason for this, is to simplify the conversion from the BDE, while still being able to use the existing data aware components I have developed over the years.

When I first purchased IBO, I figured the native components were simply a carry over from the days prior to Borland unhooking TDataSet from the BDE. Apparently, this is not the case.

I just read a post where someone was going to convert 150 forms over to all native components. This seems like a daunting task and was wondering if all this effort is really worth while, since the app I am converting has somewhere around 300 forms ? Am I missing something by not using TIB_Query ? Is performance noticeably better ?

Chris Landowski
Dynamic Software Solutions


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