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Qt4 Designer and Ruby, what am I doing wrong?

So I've been trying to make ruby read my Qt4 design and it's not working, at all. I've created a design in Qt4 Designer and saved it as a .ui file. Then I used rbuic4 to convert it to a design_ui.rb and Qt4. My current ruby main file looks like this: require 'gui/design_ui.rb' require 'Qt4' class AppMain < Ui_MainWindow def initialize...

VS Designer replaces "empty" strings with resource identifier pointing to empty strings

Weird problem, started with migration to Visual Studio 2010. Some forms, when opened, will have some objects' properties set to a string that is empty in resource file. Most often these are control properties like ImageKey, ToolTipText and for UltraGrid some columns get columnX.Header.Caption set to that string. This will obviously remo...

How to get caret position inside the active webforms designer having only the DTE object in VS2008?

I want to know some information about where the caret is int the currently active webforms designer window, but I have only the DTE object of VS2008. Anything that gets close to this might help, but what I need is: know the EditableDesignerRegion that corresponds to the place where the carret is know the position of the carret in the t...

Creating an online visual designer using silverlight

Hello I'm trying to create an visual designer like Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Dreamweaver etc as an ONLINE APPLICATION (ASP.NET). Can Silverlight be helpful with this? What are the things i need to be aware of before starting developing this online app? How good is it dragging, dropping & moving controls around with Silverlight...

Add webcontrol to web form designer in design time

I want to add a webcontrol to the web form designer in design-time, using Visual Studio 2008. I have the DTE object but I don't know how to get to the web-form-designer from there, and add the control at the end of the active document. The result should be the same as drag-and-droping a control from the toolbox to the end of the active ...

Creating a GUI with different components

I want to develop a WinForms application and the purpose of this application is creation of a GUI with different components. I should have two forms: The GUI designer. It allows selecting components like Combobox, TextBox, Button, etc. for the form. It allows make changes for properties like Location, Size, Visible, Caption. It allows ...

drop down list filter web part in sharepoint is not getting exported. Any suggestions?

Hi all, I would like to implement filtering on my sharepoint list. My list is having title and description columns and i would like to poulate the ASP.NET dropdown list control with titles and when i select the title i would like to show the description. I have followed the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc300163(office.12...

Winforms Designer Error "An error occured while parsing EntityName" (solved)

Iam using a custom control code for my winforms application to create a custom colored progressbar. I can build it, and it works fine, BUT everytime I try to use designer, it crashes. "An error occured while parsing EntityName" If I add from the toolbox, this is what I get: http://img188.imageshack.us/f/43680242.jpg/ If I insert a prog...

VS 2005 winforms designer makes unrelated changes to source and resource files.

The Visual Studio 2005 Forms Designer automatically reorders statements in it's generated form.cs.designer file. This makes code reviews and svn logs quite useless for UI issues as a little change is lost in the countless auto-generated ones. Same goes for the auto-generated .resx files. I'm sure this issue has been annoying more than j...

How to stop visual studio from opening my winforms controls in the designer.

Hi, When I want to edit/view the code for a winforms control/form i created, I need to right-click in the solution and select "view code". The default action for opening the file is "view designer". This appears to be the case for any C# file containing a class that inherits from a winforms control, even if this is indirectly. The d...

Microsoft Expression with Flash Builder

I wanted to poll the group if it might be a good idea to use Microsoft Expression with Flash Builder- any significant advantages sticking with Adobe Creative Suite? My need is to create vector graphics and basic animation like stickman Reason for looking at Microsoft Expression is availability of licenses via BizSpark. Thanks for any g...

RootPane.get("something") with GWT Designer

I've been working a little with GWT and I managed to do some small aplications. But now I started playing with GWT Designer, there is a little thing that I just couldn´t acomplish yet. When working with standard gwt, if I want to add some control or element, I just write this: RootPane.get("something").add(somePanel); And gwt render...

NetBeans GUI designer - editor skin/theme

Hello. I'm creating Java Web Applet in NetBeans and I want my final application to have design named "Metal". I can set it, it's OK. But when I'm editing the GUI using "NetBeans GUI editor" I must work with typical Windows design. Is it possible to use "Metal" skin in editor too? Each design has different sizes of buttons, fonts etc.. S...

OLAP cube designer for Mac?

Hi can you recommend me some OLAP cube designer for Mac? ...

How to use VS2010 query designer in a solution?

Well met! I'm missing something about VS2010... I want to create a solution that let's me use the visual query designer to build queries against an SQL server, as I can when I right click the server in Server Explorer and select New Query. However, I can't seem to save this sort of query. If I go into Solution Explorer, I can create a...

JDO design tool for GAE?

Hi, Is there a free JDO designer tool that will work nicely with Google App Engine projects? (I'm working in Eclipse) I need something to create some classes visually, then it could create/update my classes in certain packages. Something like Javelin, but a free alternative and something that is especially designed to work together wit...

Data source wizard: An error occurred while retrieving information from the database

I have a winform application with 15 different datasets. Lately, when I open a dataset for modification or try to create a new database the wizard gives an E_UNEXPECTED error saying "An error occurred while retrieving information from the database". I tried going through server exploere to connect to the same database and still get the s...

SwingX and NetBeans 6.9.1 GUI designer (JXCollapsiblePane/JXTaskPane)

Hi, I am new in SwingX and I have trouble using JXCollapsiblePane and JXTaskPane using Pallete manager of Netbeans 6.9.1 Specifically: For JXTaskPane: 1)I drag a JXTaskPaneContainer from pallete manager in a JForm 2)I drag a JXTaskPane from pallete manager into JXTaskPaneContainer 3)I try to add a jpanel or a jbutton in the JXTaskPane bu...

Is it possible to detect in code behind to know if we are being in design/runtime mode?

Possible Duplicate: Is there a DesignMode property in WPF? I have some codes that run & cause trouble for the designer of the IDE when editing a WPF form. So I want to know if I'm in design mode, I will turn off my code. Is it possible? ...

Share a (container)control from a (custom)control?

Soo... I am making a control like the Windows Update "panels". Everything's fine up to the "container" part. What I want to do is to allow the designer to place controls in a Panel which is inside my control. (The panel's variable is held in my control's class and inside the control itself.) How do I bypass this? As a reference, yo...