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<blockquote data-quote="Klintus Fang" data-source="post: 396594" data-attributes="member: 3580">that is true.&nbsp; but they didn't come up with anything any better.&nbsp; It's amazing, but somehow they came up with a more &quot;standard&quot; windows look an feel (minus the skins) while simultaneously coming up with an interface that is less intuitive to use than the one that came with the PhB.The &quot;skinned&quot; window look with glaring light text on black background as the default, with no easy way to change it, was a bad design choice, I think.I realize it is possible to change it, but it takes hour upon hours to do so because you have to manually edit the config files while the program is off and then restart it to test your changes.&nbsp; Considering it takes Etools 5+ minutes to load the database when it starts up that means making any substantial changes to the gui colors takes such an obscenely long amount of time the feature might as well not be there.Etools is though, on average considerable faster than PCGen.&nbsp; Etools is slow to start up and it is slow when loading the character skills tab but it's relatively fast for most other tasks.&nbsp; PCGen is slow every time you click on any tab or menu item whatsoever.I'm actually starting to like PCGen otherwise.&nbsp; I just wish it wasn't Java based.&nbsp; It's too slow.&nbsp; I wonder if the PCGen developers would care if I took their code and converted it do C++ so it wouldn't be so slow.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Klintus Fang, post: 396594, member: 3580"] that is true. but they didn't come up with anything any better. It's amazing, but somehow they came up with a more "standard" windows look an feel (minus the skins) while simultaneously coming up with an interface that is less intuitive to use than the one that came with the PhB. The "skinned" window look with glaring light text on black background as the default, with no easy way to change it, was a bad design choice, I think. I realize it is possible to change it, but it takes hour upon hours to do so because you have to manually edit the config files while the program is off and then restart it to test your changes. Considering it takes Etools 5+ minutes to load the database when it starts up that means making any substantial changes to the gui colors takes such an obscenely long amount of time the feature might as well not be there. Etools is though, on average considerable faster than PCGen. Etools is slow to start up and it is slow when loading the character skills tab but it's relatively fast for most other tasks. PCGen is slow every time you click on any tab or menu item whatsoever. I'm actually starting to like PCGen otherwise. I just wish it wasn't Java based. It's too slow. I wonder if the PCGen developers would care if I took their code and converted it do C++ so it wouldn't be so slow..... [/QUOTE]

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