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Firstly forgive me if there is already a topic like this one already...

I am trying my hand at designing a simple application for adding and viewing info in my firebird based SQL DB using Delphi but honestly i have no idea what i'm doing and would really appreciate any help or tips I can pickup as the only things that i do know is how to basically use the visual designer and the small bits of code that i figure out or pickup from listening to the developers at my work....Please can you guys help I would greatly appreciate it.

my first problem is that I have managed to create my window with its drop down menus and toolbar buttons but how do i get the menu items to open another form that i have created when clicked on.

Well you first have to setup a connection to the DB. I know with a Microsoft Access DB i used ADO Query's etc.

I can probably rustle up some of my code if I look hard enough

Ryan_Cooper wrote: but how do i get the menu items to open another form that i have created when clicked on.

On the OnClick event just show the required form. Which form? Use the combobox selected index to determine that.

Ok so how do i have my app connect to my firebird database

I know this is old but have a look at www.connectionstrings.com

Ok cool so now i know how to get it to point to my DB but i got a problem i have all my forms the way i want it but i cant seem to get them to display under the OnClick menu when i want to assign buttons to it...is there some code that I'm missing

I'll try my hand at this... although I haven't used delphi in a good 3 years.

if I understand correctly you have multiple forms

if so then for the onclick of the button you need to put

button1.onclick(blah blah blah)
begin
form2.show;
end;

then when you try run the app, it should have a message saying that it requires a link to another form, should it add it? you say yes