There is a way at runtime you can adjust this. There is a property of the
TIB_Column you can set.

I think it is ControlsReadOnly.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hope" <paulhope@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ibobjects
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: [IBO] Setting some fields to readonly


> Hi
>
> I have an IB_Query Version 3.6Dj and want to optionally set nearly all the
> fields to read only in code. I start by setting them all to read only as
> follows
>
> for i:=0 to ib_qCusData.FieldCount-1 do
>
> ib_qcusdata.FieldsReadOnly.Add(ib_qCusData.fields[i].FieldName+'=True');
>
> then I delete some lines from the FieldsReadOnly stringlist. Problem is
> the query is prepared each time a line in fieldsReadOnly is set ie once
for
> each field :-(
>
> Is there a better way (I can't do Fields[i].ReadOnly:=True because
ReadOnly
> is readonly) or how can I stop it repreparing for each field?
>
> Regards
> Paul