Quote - I doubt they will change the UI anytime soon. Too many people have been using it for years and will scream bloody murder if they touch it. Easier to just start fresh with new code and a new app, which is what i had hoped they would do with 'pro.'

Maybe they should just buy Quidam or something and incorporate that into future versions.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind some changes in the UI personally, but I'd like to see the workflow improved.  Programmers have a really bad habit of changing the UI just to change the UI - they have a particularly nasty habit of add a lot of complexity without adding a lot of functionality in a lot of cases.

So when I looked at Poser Pro 7 I was happy to see that they hadn't gone in and just given it a "face lift" for lack of a better term.  I wouldn't mind changes to the UI that actually improve the workflow at all, but if those aren't available my thinking is leave the interface alone.  Don't change it just to say you changed it.

Microsoft is probably the worst offender in this regard, having worked with dozens of different versions of office they have the most annoying habit of taking a menu item out of one menu and putting it under another for no explicable reason from one version of the software to the next.  The menu feature itself doesn't change, it isn't a more "logical" order or anything that makes sense, they just take a feature from one menu and put it on another menu, or worse yet a submenu somwhere, and it makes finding it from version to version a real pain.

Gets worse when your working in a shop that actually has several different versions of Office running at the same time on different boxes.. then you have to try and remember which version the guy has and where that particular feature is hidden.

Not to worry though, I have it on good authority that the guys at Microsoft who make there living moving items from one menu to another just so they can say they "upgraded" the program will indeed be the first one's against the wall when the revolution comes.

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...