'Bad news on the focus front (see attached link). 1) On the thumbnail yes, filename no. 2) Yes. It has to open something when you leave the Material Room, as the materials library only shows up in the Material Room' Yep. I posted in that thread. Bad news indeed. Me too - thumbnail, yes. File name, no. But why? If I want caps, I'll use them. I hate apps that impose things on me. I know the material library is only available through the room. But I don't understand why. Still, I guess you're right that it has to open something when you exit. 'but you know if you add the material to the prop and figure it is good if you do this using the material room as well, we work this way in Poser5' I suppose you're right, catherine. I just don't work the way most poser users do. I make my own MATs from the .mt5 files, but I'm not always using the library. I'd rather it opened when I told it to, not every time I want to look at a material in a figure. I guess I'm just not a typical poser user. mac