Thanks Aage,

That's the kind of information I need in order to understand what and why I have to do stuff.

I will heed your advice in Transaction usage.

Excellent.

Dave

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Aage Johansen <aagjohan@...> wrote:
> When you want to connect to other (non-IBO) components. E.g. you
> would like to show images in a (data aware) component from ImageEn or
> some 3rd party grid component. This is a case where you cannot use
> IBO's native components, and instead you would choose TIBOQuery and
> standard TDataSource:
> TIB_Database -> TIB_Transaction -> TIBOQuery -> TDataSource -> TImageEnDBView
> elsewhere, I would just use:
> TIB_Database -> TIB_Transaction -> TIB_Query -> TIB_DataSource ->
> <TIB_Edit or some other native IBO control>
> Also, TIBOQuery (with TDataSource) come in handy when converting (as
> a stopgap).
> I would think that using TIB_Database and TIB_Transaction with
> explicit transaction control is a must if want to avoid problems later on.