Jason,
Thanks for your reply.

I'm pleasantly surprised at how much work you and others
have done to provide the TTable/TIBOTable BDE/Ib migration.

The potential that this provides to begin getting away from
the BDE and into the land of Interbase-opportunity is enormous.
Not having spent a lot of my programming w/Db issues, this ease
of migration was not so readily apparent to me before now.

Things were going quite smoothly in my TTable/TIBOTable BDE/Ib
migration, until for some reason I started developing
pointer/Bookmark problems.

Without really following through very far in my debugging, I
presumed, in part, based upon an IBObjects help brief on Bookmarks,
and on reading some of the archive postings regarding Bookmarks,
that I needed to treat my Bookmarks as strings...and so I started
rewriting everything.

The help quote:

>Bookmark is a property of the TIB_Cursor, TIB_Query, TIBOQuery and
>TIBOTable components. It is merely a string so it is much more
>flexible to work with. You don't have to do the FreeBookmark() stuff
>since Delphi string handling is garbage collected

Now, it seems that, for the time being [staying w/TIBOTable, anyway],
I can revert to my old BDE-style Bookmark-as-pointer coding as long
as I don't try to free all these Bookmarks/pointers that have been
created?

Or is it that there are not pointers being created...

This is a bit confusing for me, and if you could clarify this, I'd
be grateful.

> TDataset uses either the TBookmark thing or a string.
> You can use either but you cannot intermingle them.
>
> Native IBO only provides a string.
>