Richmond wrote:
Frankly, I know that Richard Gaskin always has his
peripherals set up perfectly:

Actually, as I noted in my post, at first I didn't. When I first got my Logitech mouse I ignored the docs -- and crashed as a result. Only then did I get around to RTFM.

HOWEVER, Tiemo, when you
are designing your software you should be designing it
for people like me (i.e. those who are so slow they
have badly configured mice) rather than people like
Richard Gaskin.

While I would ordinarily encourage doing everything possible to support the widest possible audience, I don't see much upside in trying to provide workarounds for improperly-installed third-party devices. There are too many of them, and too many ways people can install them incorrectly.

In the case of QT support, checking whether it's installed is a one-linter, recommended for apps that rely on QT:

  if the qtVersion = 0 then

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Managing Editor, revJournal
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