Through some digging and commenting out, I believe I was able to take
it back to Delphi 5. It was as you said, switching the Variants to
System. However, my original still persists. However, I think I
have narrowed to an RB issue (most likely setup on my part), so I am
going to move this discussion back there. I appreciate ya'll
pointing me to the IBO Pipeline. I'd much rather use the IB_query
component the TDataset descendents.

Thanks,

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Brian K. Woods" <brian@e...> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chris_michalec <Cmich22@a...> [mailto:Cmich22@a...]
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:05 PM
> > To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [IBO] IBO and ReportBuilder`
> >
> >
> > I have looked at these components and they all seem to be for
Delphi
> > 6.0. Are there any for Delphi 5.0? I have tried installing the
> > packages, but they don't seem to be backwards compatible.
>
> I did the conversion a few months back, when I was looking at the
RB demo. I
> recall it seeming to work fine.
> However, I've had to reinstall since then ( Murphy ate my hard
drive ), and
> I didn't
> reload Report Builder since we decided to go with FastReport and
not buy RB.
> However, if I remember correctly, the conversion to Delphi 5 was
the usual
> trivial commenting out
> of the variants unit, etc that you find in any delphi 6 package. I
have
> never downloaded
> a delphi 6 package that took more than 5 minutes to get running in
Delphi 5,
> as there
> are really only a few differences. If you can't get it working,
let me
> know, and I'll
> *try* to find time to put the RB demo back in and take a look at it
for you.
>
> If anyone else out there has converted the IBOPipeline components
to Delphi
> 5, this is your chance to
> help ol' Chris out...
>
> Brian