The Dynamic Data Controls were originally distributed as an integral part of the IBX for Lazarus package and were dependent on the use of IBX for database access.
Starting with IBX release 2.7.0, the “ibcontrols” package is no longer dependent on IBX. Pascal (corba) interfaces are used to communicate between the controls and the database access provider (e.g. IBX) and any similar package that provides the same interfaces can now be used with the controls. Developers of other Database Access Providers are encouraged to use these interfaces as defined in the code snippet IBDynamicInterfaces.inc and to provide the same functionality in their packages, and hence to allow their use with the Dynamic Database Controls.
The Lazarus IDE pallet tab for these controls has also been renamed from “Firebird Data Controls” to “Dynamic Database Controls”. The package name remains “ibcontrols”.
The Dynamic Database Controls are: • TDBControlGrid (Works with any Database Driver) • TIBDynamicGrid (Other than dynamic row sorting works with any Database Driver) • TIBLookupComboEditBox (Requires IBX or IBDynamicInterfaces support) • TIBTreeview (Requires IBX or IBDynamicInterfaces support) • TIBArrayGrid (Requires IBX or IBDynamicInterfaces support and specific to Firebird arrays)
To install: download the package and open the ibcontrols.lpk in the Lazarus package editor. Click on the "Use" button in the package editor and select "Install".
For full information on the dynamic database controls and IBDynamicData interface see the user guide in the doc directory.
All examples of use are provided by the IBX for Lazarus package which must be installed in order to see the examples.