hi to all, after peeling off all IBO components I still get the
access violation, so I'll look somewhere else now.
Thanks to all

Eduardo

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "lalopus" <eduardo@p...> wrote:
> Thanks Geoff and Roger for your answers; I am able to use the
> connection now, but I'm still having problems when calling
> FreeLibrary(MyDllHandle). I don't know what else to do, the flow
I'm
> using is something like:
> EXE: On Create logs in the DB and loads DLL
> EXE: Button that calls DLL procedure passes the dbHandle
> DLL: Creates MyForm that contains a TIBODatabase, and assigns its
> dbHandleShared := EXEConnectiondbHandle
> DLL: Shows the form, etc... user Closes the form
> EXE: IBODatabase.Close
> EXE: FreeLibrary
> DLL: case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH: DLLDatabase.dbHandleShared := nil
> DLL: MyForm.Release
> and then it crashes; as far as my trace could go this happened
after
> the IB_Session unit finalization, but I'm not sure about what
caused
> the error.
>
> Is something missing???
>
> TIA
> Eduardo
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Geoff Worboys <geoff@t...> wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems with this. I could actually "force"
> > > my connection in the DLL by :
> >
> > > IBOQuery1.IB_Session.DefaultSession.DefaultConnection := DB;
> >
> > I found the following in the IBO Online FAQ but searching for
> > the "DLL Issues" keyword.
> > http://faq.ibobjects.com/scripts/ibofaq.dll
> >
> > - - -
> > When trying to share a connection DON'T try to share the
reference
> to
> > the IB_Connection component. Give every DLL its own
TIB_Connection
> and
> > simply share the connection handle between them. Use the dbHandle
> > property and assign the value from it to the dbHandleShared
> property
> > of the TIB_Connection components in the DLL instances. Use
whatever
> > means you want to pass the value, since it is just a simple
> integer.
> >
> > One vital point: close the TIB_Connection in the EXE before you
> > terminate or destroy the DLL calls. Releasing the DLL resources
> before
> > you close the TIB_Connection can cause some messy problems at
> > termination!
> > - - -
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > --
> > Geoff Worboys
> > Telesis Computing