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Without giving anything away, my complaints have been resolved to my satisfaction now. Try complaining to Laura Douglas douglal@autodesk.com. Paul.

Paul, I don't know where you got that info from but the product we sell in the UK for L195 is most definately different to the $25 US version. I hope the text below describes clearly what you do get. Nick. ANIMATION SUPPORT LIBRARIES R2.0 ====================================================================== This product is a merge of the old Animation Support Libraries kit and Animation Player for Windows Developer Kit. This name of this kit is "Animation Support Libraries R2.0". Contents: FLICLIB ——- Fliclib contains libraries for manipulation FLC files. It includes functions for creations, playback, video device management, clock support and graphics data management. Includes support for the Watcom C/386 and the MetaWare High C development systems. Because FlicLib is a Protected Mode Library (32 bit), the application using FlicLib must be a protected mode program, with an included DOS Extender. POEKIT —— Explains how to add libraries or custom functions to the POCO programming environment. This becomes necessary, when the POCO interpreter does not provide enough horsepower or flexibility for a specific kind of task. The documentation contains additional details on various files that AAPRO uses beyond FLC and CEL files and includes the full .FLC specification. PDRKIT —— Lets you write file translators for Autodesk Animator Pro. You can create a routine for writing and reading files not currently supported. The Animation Player Developers Kit ———————————– The Animation Player for Windows is a software program that lets you play animation files, either singly or in a scripted series. Using Microsoft Windows 3.1 (or Microsoft Windows 3.0 with MultiMedia Extensions) in combination with sound hardware in your system, you can also play sound in coordination with the animation. The player supports the animation file format .flc and .fli, Windows graphics formats .dib, .bmp and .rle, and sound formats .mid, .rmi and .wav. The manuals included in the tool kit are: – Animation Player for Windows – Reference Manual – Animation Player for Windows – Microsoft Visual Basic Programmer's reference Manual – Animation Player for Windows – C Programmer's Reference Manual The tool kit includes tools for support of the Animation Player that allow: – Playback of animation via DLL from a Visual Basic program – Playback of animation from Windows – Playback of animation via Microsoft Multimedia Control Interface (MCI) under Windows – Sample code for Asymetrix Toolbook applications – Sample code for Authorware applications Development tools required: – Microsoft Visual Basic (for playing back animation using the DLL) – Microsoft Windows compatible C compiler (for playing back animation using the DLL)