Windows startup issue

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/10/20 1:14 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>  > On 11/9/20 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>  >> And WTH happened to LC's error reporting dialog?
>  >
>  > Standalones have always reported this way on both desktop and mobile.
>  > It is up to the developer to include the translated references if
>  > they want to see those. Generally I don't bother, I provide the
>  > optional built-in ability to send email to support or save a file.
>  > I can translate the numbers myself since the meanings usually mean
>  > nothing to the end-user anyway.
> 
> I've been using my own error-reporting for so long I can't recall seeing the default standalone 
> handling.
> 
> I have made a couple of quickies where I just used LC's error reporting, but clumsy as that 
> design is at least the output from the "Send Report" button is more useful than the raw list of 
> triplet integers. >
> How has such ungraceful error handling become acceptable?
> 
> Why is the least useful thing the easiest for new developers to do?
> 
> Shouldn't it be easy for LC devs to deliver a great application experience?
> 

I can't remember a time when it *didn't* report the triplets outside of the IDE. That's why you 
and I wrote the Error Lookup stack. ;)

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