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To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (1823)	7/22/2003 1:49:34 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3143

Count, if you'd look at the site I pointed you do, you'd see that Townsend has documentation available to download or read online. You download the API (a set of DLLs) and you follow the instructions in the documentation. I realize that you aren't a software engineer, so you may not fully understand this. But I'll try to explain it in layman's terms. One doesn't need source code to an application in order to interface with it. Software publishers commonly provide an API, or "Application Program Interface" for this purpose. This is a set of "entry points" to function calls that one can make, along with documentation of such. For example, you can write plugins for Microsoft Word using an API. Microsoft makes the API feeely available to anybody, as is quite common in the industry. (At one time that wasn't true - you weren't a big-wig spell-checker company, go away!) You don't need the "code" to Microsoft Word to write a plug-in. Again, you just repeatedly jump to conclusions without knowing or understanding the facts. It's interesting that we've had this discussion, not for my crimes of writing an opening gap finder and giving it away, and my worse crime of writing a faulty function for multiplying two numbers on an 8080, but for what it shows of your thought process.