In Delphi it is possible to select a number of persistent database fields from the field editor and drag them onto a form. When you drop these fields on the form a data-aware component is created for each of the fields, together with a label.

This is quite nice, and a quick way to start up a form. My problem is that the TDbEdit component is used for any kind of field, so that I have to change this afterwards. This is said to be possible to do in the SQL Explorer, but as far as I can see, that is only possible if you use the BDE.

Does anyone know a way this can be done? We have subclassed all the field components in Delphi, is there a way we can link a default data-aware component to these (like we have used DefaultFieldClasses to make our own field components become the default components when creating new fields in Delphi).