At 03/10/2002 06:13 AM, you wrote:

>Helen,
>you've got me interested...
>I have an application which is about ready to go - based on IBX but I'm
>having reservations... thus my query
>I notice, though, that IBO also has many visual components, e.g I have
>already subclassed the DBGrid but IBO also has one and I fear that not using
>the IBO grid would also put me at a disadvantage. Is this correct? Would I
>be advised to convert all my code to IBO related controls, and therfore
>subclass from the IBOGrid for my purposes?
>Also, I imagine that I can still use the IBX stuff for Quickreports e.g.
>where it would not work (possibly) with non descendants of TDataset?

IBO does have a module that contains TDataset descendants: TIBOQuery and
TIBOTable. So, you wouldn't have to change your grid or visual interface
in the beginning for a quick conversion. Then you could start evaluating
the IBO native components to see where they would fit and benefit your
application.


Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.accramed.ca)