vahan.yoghoudjian@...-electric.com wrote:

> thank you Helene and Dmitry for your fast and detailled replies...=20
> Actually I have used IBobjects with Interbase but this is my first time I=20
> try to use them with Firebird, after I wrote my first mail I read on the=20
> website that the IB Connection first tries to load the fbclient.dll then=20
> for interbase client, but yesterday when I was trying to connect to a=20
> firebird database (by double clicking on IBConnection component) I was not=
> =20
> allowed to select FDB databases, am I not using the latest IBO version?

I don't use design-time connections myself, but what you read about
client libraries is true for the *last* version of IBO.

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> When I manually wrote the database path in the property and try to connect=
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> I got the wrong password error while I was able to connect to the same=20
> database with the same password using IB Experts...

Strange. Connection parameters are roughly the same between IB and FB.
There are server aliases in FB but if you use path it should work. I
would make a small reservation of very late IB versions as I haven't
worked with IB since version 6-something.

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> Let's assume I install Firebird in a different folder than the default=20
> folder, is IBConnection able to detect it?

The location of the server itself is of minor importance as the client
will communicate with it using a protocol. I don't know about "multiple
installs" using the local protocol but when you use TCP/IP
(recommended?) you shoul set each server to use a different port or you
will have two servers (IB and FB or FB 1.5 and FB 2.0) listening to the
same port and that's bad.

HTH,

/Dany