Helen Borrie wrote:

>
> At 10:16 PM 30-09-02 +0930, you wrote:
>
> >Is there another way to use InfoPower controls?
>
> There is no way to use the IP controls with the native data access
> components and TIB_Datasource.
>
> However, hybrid apps work OK but, from experience, the native DAOs are a
> lot more comfy using a TIBODatabase and TIBOTransactions than the TIBO DAOs
> are about using a TIB_Connection and TIB_Transaction.
>
> One thing that *is* useful to know about is AssignSQLWithSearch. This
> allows you to port the SQL of a TIB_Statement descendant *in its current
> run-time state* to a TIBO DAO. I don't use Infopower controls myself, not
> because I think they are bad controls but just that they aren't suitable
> for the client/server interface models I use (little or no client-side data
> manipulation; no locates; drill down for data-seeking).
>
> >I find InfoPower extremely useful and am very familiar with them. 2
> >immediately-obvious
> >benefits are its richedit and filter dialogs.
>
> Filters I have not touched since I dropped the BDE. But then, I haven't
> touched a Table component since I dropped the BDE, either. IBO turned
> database programming on its head for me. I never need filters because
> there is nothing to filter.
>

Amongst other things I need to print treeviews of data, possibly DXTreeView or ElPack
TreeView or something else. Also editing from within a treeview structure with FirstClass
DBTreeView.

PrintDAT! prints IP grids with extraordinary ease and does not have listed IB_ components.
Therefore I will have to connect using IBO_Database and allow arbitrary filtering on
InfoPower grids.

For non-trivial reports I'll probably use Rave. Does Rave 5 require IBO_ or will it work
with IB_ components?

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Raymond Kennington
Programming Solutions
W2W Team B