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    Ah...beauty. That comes at the very end of the process. Usability should be main concern which will result in an overall positive UX. Beauty is just glitter and bows and ribbons. Good usability, however, is measurable. Alas this process of measuring is time and resource consuming. Not many managers are willing or even capable of spending money on this, reckoning that usability will improve itself over time. Sadly, more often than not the opposite happens.

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    15 hours ago, Rudy Velthuis said:

    A good designer will

    Ay, there's the rub: Please! Pretty please! Find me a good designer! When they are not even present in most of the leading UI manufacturers, surely there must be some kind of global shortage.

    I am painfully aware of the fact, that an engineer will fail at creating a good UI as well. So the best thing is to have them both talk with each other through the entire development process...a costly thing. *sigh*

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    40 minutes ago, freeman35 said:

    I think for settings, ini file is always better then registry entry. 

    Amen to that! Every Tom, Dick or Harry writes something into the registry nowadays. It's just as cluttered as the good old win.ini was back in the day.

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  12. Posted

    14 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

    Somehow I thought that adding a link after these few lines would be make it clear that there is more to the post, especially since the category is about blog posts.

    How about turning those few lines into an abstract? Something short and juicy like "In this blog post I'll discuss the possibilities to get the real Windows version". That should be enough to either get the attention of the interested, or inform the uninterested of the contents so they can move on.

     

    BTT: Very useful, thank you!

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    Very insightful and concise @Dalija Prasnikar. I would even go so far as to say: The compiler is not the issue, it's the libs (RTL/VCL/FMX) as you said, but also the IDE that might profit of opening up, and still there would have to be a team of code reviewers that would do nothing but prevent crap faulty/low quality code from getting into the base. Not sure if Embarcadero would want to make that investment.

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    So, just to be clear. These are messages in the "Event Log"? They do not come from the compiler. They are messages triggered by your application and the DLLs it uses. Either you dive in deeper using the process monitor from SysInternals or check out how you access those files (standard API, some old legacy code, some new self made code, some alien technology and so forth) in your code. Where are those files? In the MS cloud aka OneDrive?

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