It's still a Mac app! On both platforms.

E.g. The "Windows" dialogs, as FishNose states "Extremely primitive "Open" window - Win98 style. Or even Win95." (Win 3.1?)

E.g. No normal Windows click function - look closely and you'll see it is all done by hotspots on the screen, which is why a mouse click on a button (image) won't take sometimes if you click near the edge of the button (image).

E.g. Delayed cursor changes. All Windoze apps suffer from a coursor icon change delay to some extent, maybe 0.5 to 1 sec, but on Poser it can be - and often is - 20 secs or more with absolutely no indication that your click took.

I suspect that Windows versions of Poser are still built on a MacOS platform. Certainly the code used to emulate/simulate/interface with Windows API calls is still that used for Poser 1 or 2 (whichever was the original port to Windows). This means that all later - read current - aspects of Windows are unavailable. Better file dialogs, dual monitor support, ability to cohabit with other apps, etc, etc, etc.

All the other items listed by others are important, but until and unless this applciation is natively compiled for its target operating system, all bets of a stable application are off. It will remain an ill-behaved applciation by definition. And sloooooow.

And to add an item missed so far - context sensitive confirmation dialogs, e.g. "Do you want to delete Figure 1? Yes/No" instead of "Do you want to delete the CURRENT figure? Yes/No". Oh, and yes. I'd like the above as a FREE update please, at least for the initial punters who were sold P5, for the reasons given by Jackson above. Thanks.

Message edited on: 07/15/2004 10:43