On my development machine the skins are stored on D:DataDelphiAlphaControls
In the IDE I have set the SkinDirectory-Path and the Skin-Name of the Skinmanager-Component and I've set the SkinManager to True so I see the look of the app at design time.
Additionally I set the Skin-Directory, Skin-Name and the Active-property in the OnCreate-event of the main form so everything is properly set on a customers PC.
Suddenly (I think this was different on older versions of AC) I get a lot of exceptions “There's no disk in drive D:” when I start up the application on a PC that is not the developer PC.
With Sysinternal's Process Monitor I found that the application tries (but fails) to connect to “D:DataDelphiAlphaControlsTopaz.asz” but on the customers PC there's only a CD-drive on D.
IMHO there shouldn't be a visible exception when the Skin is not found initially.
(or there should be a property to disable such an exception)