"That allowed him to use a much simpler set of tools to develop the library code."

Nope. If anything, I used a much more sophisticated set of tools and built a very complicated UI.

The Flex-based UI (which does not require/demand Flash - it can use AIR instead - they just did that because they felt it needed to be embedded like the other windows, but it does not) allowed them to build one UI that would run on multiple platforms and not require that Anime Studio would have to also have a library tool written for it in parallel. They wanted one library that could talk to both Poser and AS (and if possible, future apps of their choosing), and they wanted it for very little money. It could have been in Python and still talk over sockets, but the Python graphical list capabilities were (and frankly still are) very primitive. Note that AS was written in Visual Basic and embedding Python in it was deemed out of the question. (My first suggestion to solve both apps was to write the UI in Python and they add a Python interpreter to AS. They said no.)

Since then, they have tried to build a new library UI (using HTML 5 and Javascript) and dump the one I wrote. I have no direct knowledge of why that effort was incomplete and remains unreleased three years after it started, but the (partial) code is there and you can turn it on if you want. You will have a library that is much simpler than the one I wrote, only capable of displaying information in a very limited way.

Anyway - I am truly sick and tired of explaining this. FYI.

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