At 02:58 PM 26/05/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>I find myself, very fequently during development,
>going to my datamodule or where ever I have my connection component,
>selecting it,
>F11 the properties sheet
>scrolling up the properies to the connection property,
>double clicking the True to False,
>then going back to what I was doing..
>this is all because I make changes to the db which must be refreshed.
>
>Is there a way to make this operation quicker?
>E.g. the Import server defaults is on the connection popup menu.
>Can a disconnect menu item be added somewhow?
>If I can do this myself - can someone perhaps suggest a way?

Just double-click on the connection component to open the visual property
editor - which is an in-line version of IB_SQL - it should open on the
Connection tab - and click the red "-" button to disconnect, then click the
blue "+" button to reconnect.

Actually, you can do all your database mods directly from this visual
property editor as well, either interactively on the DSQL tab, or by
running a script; test the changes, browse the database, import data,
extract metadata, et al.

Helen