At 11:05 PM 3/04/2004 -0500, you wrote:

> >
> > > in Delphi:
> > > you need in uses: IB_Constants
> > >
> > > then, before connect:
> > >
> > > IB_GDS32 := somepath + 'fblient.dll';
> > >
> > > or: IB_GDS32 := somepath + 'gds32.dll';
> > >
> > > regards
> > > Gerhard
> >
>
>OK, this works. I looked at the IB_Constants.pas and saw that I had to have
>the declaration as the first in line in my projects uses clause.
>
>This leads me to another question. If I am assigning the string of the
>IB_GDS32 constant at run time to two different dll's, would there be any
>conflicts within my application (inside IBO) because of loading two
>different dll's? I'm not concerned with it now since I would not have any
>open database/queries for both databases types at the same time (embedded
>and remote), but I was curious about that. Unless IBO loads the dll
>dynamically...I haven't looked at the source that closely :(

OK, what you were asking before doesn't marry with what you are talking
about here. Now you want to use two completely different client versions
inside a single app to connect to different server versions?

Helen