Jack,

you could check in the FormCreate (assuming Delphi) or the form constructor
(C++ Builder) and if the database file is not found, simply disable the DB
specific options etc.

Alternatively, check in the BeforeConnect event handler for the connection -
as demonstrated in the very first Sample program supplied with IBO.


HTH

Regards,
Norman

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Norman Dunbar
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Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Cane [mailto:jwcane@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:17 PM
To: ibobjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IBO]

<SNIP>
Would like to know the best way to achieve this. One approach is to check if
the .gdb exists. Where is the best place to make the check?

tks,

jwc




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