Thanks, that seems to work just fine. I am not sure what you mean when you say "Perhaps you could set an event alerter to accompany

> your metadata change."

I am using this in a particular situation where I would like the fields renamed by the date they are used as selected by the user. I have been looking at FieldsDislayLabel but renaming the actual fields may be a better solution.

Terry

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Support List" <supportlist@...> wrote:
>
> Terry,
>
> > I am running a Delphi7 application which is live.
> > If I rename a field in Firebird using Flamerobbin how do I refresh the
> > IB_Grid so that the renamed field changes in the Delphi application.
> >
> > Assuming I can do this I would assume that I run a Script with something
> > like ALTER TABLE TITLE ALTER AGE7 TO AGE8;
>
> The dataset would need to be unprepared and prepared again to pick up on the
> change to the underlying table. You would need to somehow notify your
> application to do that. Perhaps you could set an event alerter to accompany
> your metadata change.
>
> Jason LeRoy Wharton
> www.ibobjects.com
>