--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:

> At 04:30 PM 25/07/2005 +0000, you wrote:
> >Off to re-read the IBO "Getting Started" manual for the third

time - or

> >at least this time should say 'study'!
> >The one thing I find about this manual though is that it appears

more

> >TIB 'centric' and the similarities between say TIBO and TIB query

are

> >not well documented. It is only when one starts using the TIBO

strain

> >that the similarities are more apparent.
>
> The trick is to recognise that the TIBO-- components are meant to

behave

> like their TDataset ancestors - with some extra behaviour wrapped

in from

> the native IBO (TIB_--) InternalDataset. The GSG addresses things

that are

> DIFFERENT about the IBO layer, not things that are the same; and

it

> doesn't try to replace the IBO help file.
>
> The help file, like Delphi, is hierarchical. It is built with

Time2Help

> (with add-ins done in Help&Manual) - both Delphi applications
> themselves. Two tools that can help a lot when tracking the

native

> behaviours built into the TIBO classes are 1) the "Hierarchy"

button on

> each main class page and 2) the graphical browser for the help

file, which

> is on the Downloads page.
>
> Helen

Just to say once again Helen, "Thanks for the enlightenment".
At this point IBO TDataSet is working fine and I'm starting to
(slowly) get the hang of things.
My original conjecture was that IBO would form an 'absolute' link
between Pascal and the clinet server architecture IRO the change
from desktop to CS - which it doesn't, one still needs a fair
grounding in SQL. Guess I'm getting lazy in my old age!

Regards and thanks again,