Author: Tomas Rutkauskas 

Connect to server databases (InterBase) without the login dialog

Answer:

To bypass the login dialog when connecting to a server database, use the property 
LoginPrompt.You will have to provide the username & password at runtime, but you 
also can set that up at design time in the object inspector, property Params.

This short source code shows how to do it:

1   Database1.LoginPrompt := false;
2   with Database1.Params do
3   begin
4     Clear;
5     // the parameters SYSDBA & masterkey should be
6     // retrieved somewhat different :-)
7     Add('USER NAME=SYSDBA');
8     Add('PASSWORD=masterkey);
9   end;
10  Database1.Connected := tr