<t>After much research, there appears to be a substantial competitive advantage in owning the patent. There are, however, very successful programs which utilize all the VR standard features and which are used in finance.Thanks for your responses. It is most telling that no one responded that they we...

<t>In 2001, patent US5774878:" Virtual reality generator for use with financial information" was granted to P. Marshall. The patent office seems to have been convinced that the use of 3D representation, point of view, and flying through (all normal VR attributes) when used with financial data was pa...

Has anyone used the SmartQuant C++ library? http://www.smartquant.com/index.htm Cheers!MR

<t>COM is an ungainly solution. Memory problems like you describe come from the differences of the basic types (MS has different library implementations of several of the types, that is, different between C++, VB, and VBA). The solution is simple: 1. make a unique C++ dll for each of the types you w...