> Good day Alan
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> Basically I have a BDE (Delphi) application that does a query
> from a table that has a TIMESTAMP column. The problem
> is that when I do this I get the error that TIMESTAMP is
> unknown. AS I say I cannot replicate it here. Will have to do at home.
>
> In short , I basically wanted to know if the IBObjects component
> can be set to use a specific DLL. If there was a reload
> DLL function. If not it is fine. I will try and find a solution for this.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> JOhannes

you can set the client lib name in IBO but the search path is your PCs
search path. As I said, you are barking up the wrong tree and wasting time
trying to tell IBO where to find the lib. If it's adjacent to your exe and
it's called gds32.dll then it will be the one IBO uses.
if there is no gds32.dll in your exe folder, then it will look in system32
for it.
BDE is involved too eh? with IBO? not sure I understand yet what you have
there but there IS an issue with dialects and datatypes as you move up thru
IB5.6 to 6 to FB1.5 and what datatypes are avilable to you with the dialect
you have chosen. BDE adds more confusion now
Alan