At 02:22 PM 12/07/2004 -0700, you wrote:

> >It's no good to me, as you've built it with runtime libraries. This
> >**actually** could be the source of your problems, too, if you didn't
> >delete the runtime libraries from your old IBO version and/or you forgot to
> >give your customers the proper libraries...
>
>Here it is again, without runtime libraries:
>
>http://www.jmmsoftware.com/UpdateBarTest.zip

No change. It still wants the runtime libraries. Note, there's no way an
80 Kb exe could have been built without runtime libraries!!

>This machine never had an old version of IBO on it, and the distribution of
>the libraries is all handled by InstallShield that came with BCB4, so I
>don't think that's the issue.
>
> >Also, I'd hoped to reconstruct the project from the DFM file, but you've
> >got me there, too - you're saving your DFMs as binaries.
>
>I don't know how to tell BCB to save them any other way,

Right-click on the form and check "Save dfm as text" on the context menu.

>but here is the
>text of the DFM:

Please go past this listing....

>object Form1: TForm1
> Left = 192
> Top = 107
> Width = 696
> Height = 480
> Caption = 'Form1'
> Color = clBtnFace
> Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET
> Font.Color = clWindowText
> Font.Height = -11
> Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'
> Font.Style = []
> OldCreateOrder = False
> OnShow = FormShow
> PixelsPerInch = 96
> TextHeight = 13
> object IB_Grid1: TIB_Grid
> Left = 0
> Top = 64
> Width = 681
> Height = 369
> CustomGlyphsSupplied = []
> DataSource = IB_DataSource1
> TabOrder = 0
> end
> object IB_NavigationBar1: TIB_NavigationBar
> Left = 272
> Top = 24
> Width = 121
> Height = 25
> Ctl3D = False
> ParentCtl3D = False
> TabOrder = 1
> DataSource = IB_DataSource1
> ReceiveFocus = False
> CustomGlyphsSupplied = []
> end
> object IB_UpdateBar1: TIB_UpdateBar
> Left = 416
> Top = 24
> Width = 121
> Height = 25
> Ctl3D = False
> ParentCtl3D = False
> TabOrder = 2
> DataSource = IB_DataSource1
> ReceiveFocus = False
> CustomGlyphsSupplied = []
> end
> object IB_Database1: TIB_Database
> LoginPrompt = True
> Params.Strings = (
> 'PATH=c:\employee.gdb'
> 'USER NAME=SYSDBA')
> Left = 48
> Top = 24
> end
> object IB_Query1: TIB_Query
> DatabaseName = 'c:\employee.gdb'
> IB_Connection = IB_Database1
> SQL.Strings = (
> 'select * from employee')
> ColorScheme = False
> MasterSearchFlags = [msfOpenMasterOnOpen, msfSearchAppliesToMasterOnly]
> RequestLive = True
> BufferSynchroFlags = []
> FetchWholeRows = True
> Left = 136
> Top = 24
> end
> object IB_DataSource1: TIB_DataSource
> Dataset = IB_Query1
> Left = 200
> Top = 24
> end
>end

I built a sample the same as your DFM. Environment is

Win2K Sp2
Delphi 5 Ent
IBO 4.3Aa
No runtime libraries - the EXE is 1062 Kb

There is one difference: your sample is looking at "employee.gdb" which,
regardless of where it came from, is a Dialect 1 database. Mine is looking
at employee.fdb, a Dialect 3 database.

You can download it here:
File : /JoeMartinez1.zip
Uploaded by : helebor <helebor@...>
Description : For Joe Martinez

You can access the file at the URL

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IBObjects/files/JoeMartinez1.zip

Please run the EXE, which runs exactly as expected on my system. (You'll
have to slot in your own path location and name for the employee database).

Helen