tim posted at 2:40PM Sat, 27 February 2021 - #4413938

I understand the sentiment on the Python upgrade. But Python 2 was designated EOL (end-of-life) status by the broader Python community in 2020 (reasons here: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/) and will slowly fall further behind with no more open-source care and feeding. It would have soon become a liability for Poser.

Hey Tim,

Ahh, this is information that I would DEFINITELY have included in your press release. I'm not HAPPY with the reason (beyond your control), and your press release definitely presented the worst POSSIBLE case for the switch, but if there is a valid technical and future-proofing reason, then it makes this bitter pill a bit easier to swallow. I live in a world where I now need to run two versions of Poser. Fair enough.

I suppose the community and customers like you will ultimately judge if this was the best approach.

Incidentally, I purchased LockMaster - it's an excellent tool but I did crash up against two issues - one of them potentially app breaking. When I installed it, and it asked for my details to run it the first time, the screen looked like this:

Those white rectangles were not added by me - they are a problem with the interface failing to respect x2 scaling on a 4K monitor - and are the data entry field windows. I have reported the program's failure to scale to one of your colleagues and was told that I should just resize the windows ( a weak response in the first place) but on fixed windows like this, it's not even an option.

I feel as though this scaling issue is something that is going to need addressing and a white paper written in order to guide coders and vendors to creating well behaved products. I'm not being snarky, but we're way beyond the point where 4K monitors are a luxury any more.

The second was that, regardless of where I installed Poser 12 (in my case on the D drive), python scripts are now installed to C:UsersPublicDocumentsPoser 12 ContentRuntimePythonxxx

What's the point of giving me a choice where to install Poser and its content files if you then spray elements all over my computer? And why did you change the former Python scripts location?