Your observation is correct and your complaint is heard. If persistent
fields appeals to you then I recommend you continue using the TDataset based
components. Most of the TIB_Query features are accessible via TIBODataset
anyway.

In the TIB_ there are other benefits to doing away with the persistent
fields concept.

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

-- We may not have it all together --
-- But together we have it all --

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan McDonald" <alan@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 3:38 AM
Subject: [IBO] Field persistence question


> It's a pity that there is no field persistence with the IB_ components. It
> means that the compiler can't catch your fieldname spelling errors - it's
> only caught at run time. Is there still no way but to use the fieldbyname
or
> the fields array?
> Alan