When technology doesn't get it right...
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This sounds awesome. :) Why would you make the project available for download? It sounds like it would be worth a lot of money.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
This is a project I have wanted to do for many years. However, for good number of years, decent information on both the graphics and the AI was scant at best until more recently. The result is that I have a lot of learning and research to do. This makes it a little difficult for me to request monies for my work... At least now. Even the with third release, which is what is currently available for download, I found quite a number of issues with the GUI and the database, most of which should be corrected in the upcoming release. However, the work on all the updates to the HELP file will take a little time and I have to finish the testing of the GUI. It is a lot of work but it is slowly coming together...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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One of the things that really ticks me off about Microsoft's UX changes is the way the newer crop of development idiots completely ignore the way things should be done. Case in point -- there used to be a Microsoft document called "The Windows Design Guide". It laid out all the dos and don'ts for creating Windows applications, especially in terms of the user interface. One of its strongest rules stated something like "When your application first opens, do not expand its main window to take over the entire screen. Do not cover up all the other applications that may be running." Now, take a look at what happens when you start even small applications, like Settings, or larger stuff like Outlook or Word -- Boom! whole screen covered for no good reason. This new crop of idiots simply assumes that no one can handle more than one window at a time, so why waste screen space? And, I'll bet they have no explanation for why they've blithely ignored decades of good advice.
So true. Something that ticked me off in the last couple of years is a UX change they made to the treeview in Outlook. Previously it showed the number of unread items in a folder right next to the folder name, which made it very easy to read. They changed it so that the number of unread items is right justified so that it is far away from the folder name. Now it is much harder to tell at a glance which folder the unread items are in. WHY DO THAT? It makes things objectively worse. That's when I realized they are just making changes to justify their jobs, with no real thought or care.
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Richard Deeming wrote:
And their plans for Recall[^] which really make you want to "get your ass to Mars". :sigh:
What worse... Microsoft (Pest) or Musk (Cholera)? :doh: :~ X|
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Look, arguing about which colour horses they're riding, or who the other two are, won't avert the apocalypse you know! :laugh:
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