> why you don't use some IncSearch objects like InfoPower
> TwwIncrementalSearch or Orpheus TOvcDbSearchEdit ?

because I don't have further $$$ to spend for such a marginal benefit.

I am asking for a solution _inside_ IbObjects.

> make an upgrade to IBO4

alas! I have D3 and I don't have D4-D5-D6.

You remind me of the old joke:

a gentleman asks a police officer how he can reach a certain place.

The policeman answer: "it is rather difficult to explain, sir. If I were
you, I would not try to go there _from here_"...

Grazie

Duilio