Your management did not know the value of the gem of a tool they had with AV. As a professional software developer and founder of a handful of software companies (tools and utilities), AV was one of the slickest things I've seen or used. True, AV did and does need improvement (has bugs in IVF implementation).

Your management did not know how to understand this tool, nor how to market it.

The best parts of AV

a) The presentation driver/app is in a separate process from the host application (uses memory mapped files). Meaning on x32 platform it requires very little memory in the host application process VM. And meaning, a single threaded host application gains multi-threaded capability by having the presentation performed in a separate process (concurrently) with execution of the application.

b) While host application is running, pumping results into AV, you can interact with the presentation process (AV) and add charts without interfering with the running of the application. This is realy cool.

In the simulation work I do for my space elevator research I typically have an animated 3D plot of the elevator, earth, moon, etc... Run times can be several days. While running a simulation I may be interested in, as an example, following the bobbing of the upper ballast object. My standard presentation plots (animate 3D), has the data to plot this but not as a 2D chart. To add this 2D chart, it takes about 30 seconds and I can do this without interrupting the simulation run. As long as the tables are "watched" that data is available for ad-hoc plots.

True, the tougher charts and plots you will want to hard code into the program. For the easy ones, it is so easy to do you do not bother with writing the code.

Jim Dempsey