A bit of an annoying problem: I set the engine component in Delphi to Active
= False, but when I make a change to a session component (like change its
name), or a database component (change name), the Active of the Engine
component pops to True automatically. Can this be stopped? The general idea
is that if I want it to be not Active, it should stay that way.

(Several other Delphi components have similar issues. ReportBuilder tends to
set ppTables to Active as well.)

RJ

Royke


The problem is that some alterations actually require the use of the engine. eg changing the sessionname using the dropdown (not sure about just typing) called the engine to get a list of session names.

What I've done is install GExperts and use it to set some properties when I compile.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< A bit of an annoying problem: I set the engine component in Delphi to
Active = False, but when I make a change to a session component (like change
its name), or a database component (change name), the Active of the Engine
component pops to True automatically. Can this be stopped? The general idea
is that if I want it to be not Active, it should stay that way. >>

Changing a session name does not automatically start the engine.  Only
changing a property that requires the use of the engine, such as the the
TEDBDatabase.Database property which requires a list of the databases in the
configuration file, causes the engine to be automatically started.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
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