Hi! I'm developing an MFC application and I've recently been searching for a good method to remove the icon from a Windows title bar, but retain the close button. The two obvious candidate solutions are turning off the system menu style or using the tool window style, but I would prefer not to disable the system menu or use the shrunken ...
I'm looking for patterns that concern coding parts of a GUI. Not as global as MVC, that I'm quite familiar with, but patterns and good ideas and best practices concerning single controls and inputs. Let say I want to make a control that display some objects that may overlap. Now if I click on an object, I need to find out what to do (Ju...
We are currently working on a new version of our main application. one thing that I really wish to work on is providing support for multiple monitors. Increasingly, our target users are adding second screens to their desktops and I think our product could leverage this extra space to improve user performance. Our application is a fina...
Could someone recommend any good resources for creating Graphics User Interfaces, preferably in C/C++? Currently my biggest influence is 3DBuzz.com's C++/OpenGL VTMs (Video Training Modules). While they are very good, they cover a large area of graphics programming, so only skim the surface of GUI programming. This question does relate...
I'm looking to create a dashboard type gui for a web application. I'm looking for the user to be able to drag and drop different elements (probably either image buttons, anchor tags, or maybe just divs) to different (defined) places and be able to save their setup (in a cookie or on the server). I'm working with c# in the .Net 2.0 fram...
Trying to avoid the .net WebBrowser control (I don't need to navigate to a url, print rendered html or any of the other inbuilt goodies). Wrapping the IE dll seems a bit heavyweight. I simply require something that can display basic html marked up text - an html equivalent of RichTextBox in effect. Anyone have any experiences / recomm...
How do you test the usability of the user interfaces of your applications - be they web or desktop? Do you just throw it all together and then tweak it based on user experience once the application is live? Or do you pass it to a specific usability team for testing prior to release? We are a small software house, but I am interested i...
I am running a Qt 4.5 commercial snapshot and want to use a plugin that i downloaded (it's a .so file) in my QWebView. Is there a specific location where I need to place this file? Can I grab it using the QWebPluginFactory? ...
What would you recommend for OS X development of a graphical application like those possible in WPF? My specific background is in Smalltalk & Java, but I currently work mostly in DHTML/.NET (ASP.NET/C#). ...
We have a set of applications that basically display a bunch of bitmaps and text, then allow user to press "buttons" (certain bitmaps) that cause actions to occur. We currently have these implemented using DirectX and a bunch of code to place the bitmaps and handle the button-presses. But we'd like to have the following features: por...
I am using Simpletest as my unit test framework for the PHP site I am currently working on. I like the fact that it is shipped with a simple HTML reporter, but I would like a bit more advanced reporter. I have read at the reporter api documentation, but it would be nice to be able to use an existing reporter, instead of having to do it ...
I'm a bit perplexed by drag and drop in wxPython (but perhaps this questions pertains to drag and drop in other GUI frameworks as well). The frameworks provides a couple of callbacks (OnEnter and OnDragOver) that purportedly allow me to inform the system whether the current mouse position is a valid place to drop whatever it is that is b...
In our project, SharpWired, we're trying to create a download component similar to the download windows in Firefox or Safari. That is, one single top down list of downloads which are custom controls containing progress bars, buttons and what not. The requirements are that there should be one single list, with one element on each row. Ea...
I want to write a front-end to an application written in C/C++. I use Solaris 10 and plan to port the application to some other architectures (Windows first). ...
My understanding is that wxWidgets is for a number of programming languages (C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET) but that does not include C. Is there a similar framework for the C programming language, or is this not something that C is used for? ...
Terminals and shells are very powerful but can be complicated to learn, especially to get the best out of them. Does anyone know of a more GUI based command shell that helps a user or displays answers in a more friendly way? I'm aware of IPython, but even the syntax of that is somewhat convoluted, although it's a step in the right direct...
Is there a way to specify a child's initial window position in Qt? I have an application that runs on Linux and Windows and it looks like the default behavior of Qt lets the Window Manager determine the placement of the child windows. On Windows, this is in the center of the screen the parent is on which seems reasonable. On Lin...
I am decidedly a programmer, and not a UI designer, so when I am working on internal tools, I really struggle with laying out controls in a useful manner. For example, all those questions I've been asking for the last two days have been for building this tool: http://www.gfilter.net/junk/taskmanager.jpg And while I am pretty happy wit...
in C# I'd like to invoke the label edit of a newly added item to a ListView. basically, if I have a click here to add scenario, as soon as the new item is added, I want the text label to be in a user editable state. Thanks! ...
I'm working on a visual studio 2005 vb.net windows forms project that's been around for several years. It's full of default textboxes, labels, dropdowns, datagrids, datetime pickers -- all the standard stuff. The end result is a very gray, old-looking project. What would be the best approach to making this project look fresh and snazz...