I am considering creating a GUI-based tool that I want to be cross-platform. I've dismissed Java, as I personally do not like Swing. I'm currently considering C# and using Mono to make it cross-platform. However I'm wondering whether new-fangled cross-platform languages like Python can offer me a decent GUI development environment. ...
I am considering creating a GUI-based tool that I want to be cross-platform. I've dismissed Java, as I personally do not like Swing. I'm currently considering C# and using Mono to make it cross-platform. However I'm wondering whether new-fangled cross-platform languages like Ruby can offer me a decent GUI development environment. ...
We are changing some of the text for our old, badly written error messages. What are some resources for best practices on writing good error messages (specifically for Windows XP/Vista). ...
I'm having trouble trying to map nested conditions onto an intuitive interface. eg. How would you represent ((Condition1 AND Condition2) OR (Condition1 AND Condition5)) AND Condition4 ...
Summary for the impatient: What I want to know is what you want to have in a new gui language. About the short answers mentioning $your_favorite_one; I assume you mean that, such a language should look like $your_favorite_one. These are not helpful. Resist the temptation. I'm thinking on the user friendliness of XML based languages suc...
I would like to use javascript to develop general-purpose GUI applications. Initially these are to run on Windows, but I would like them to ultimately be cross-platform. Is there a way to do this without having to make the application run in a browser? ...
Does anyone have tools to recommend for automated testing of GUI applications on Windows? The tools must be language-independent and thus should be able to interact with any GUI, regardless of implementation language. In other words, I'm looking for something that can be scripted to press buttons, select menu items, check checkboxes, e...
In the past I've worked with a number of programmers who have worked exclusively writing GUI applications. And I've been given the impression that they have almost universally minimised the use of multiple threads in their applications. In some cases they seem to have gone to extreme lengths to ensure that they use a single thread. Is ...
Hello, I'm looking for some programming guides to C# GUI design. I come from the Java camp (where I can happily hand-code Swing/AWT GUIs) and thus don't have a clue where to start :( Also, what difference (if any) is there between the Windows Presentation Foundation and WinForms? ...
Management wants us to switch to Infragistics. But my boss says that any 3rd party is destined to fail, and at that point there won't be anything we can do about it. Is he right, is he wrong? I don't know. What are your opinions, is it better to use something developed inside the company, or do you prefer something like DevExpress, In...
I know how to use the checkboxlist in ASP.NET to display options retrieved from a database. What I don't know how to do is to make this 2-dimensional. That is, I need a list of checkboxlists where I don't know how long the list is; both dimensions of the checkboxlist will be determined by list of people (pulled from database) list o...
As a follow up to my previous question, I am wondering how to use transparent windows correctly. If I have set my window to use transparency, the UI will occasionally appear to stop responding. What is actually happening is that the UI simply is not updating as it should. Animations do not occur, pages do not appear to navigate; howev...
This is an interesting conundrum. We have a WPF app that has a Vista-like theme using soft pastels, Aero control templates, etc. What we've noticed is that this UI appears incredibly washed out on low quality LCDs. Is there a way to boost color saturation application-wide or are we at the mercy of bad monitors? Can we even tell, program...
I'm tired of using: tail -f development.log To keep track of my rails logs. Instead I would like something that displays the info in a grid and allows my to sort, filter and look at stack traces per log message. Does anyone know of a GUI tool for displaying rails logs. Ideally I would like a standalone app (not something in Netbeans...
When writing GUIs, I've frequently come over the following problem: Assume you have a model and a controller. The controller has a widget W that is used to show a property X of the model. Because the model might be changed from outside the controller (there might be other controllers using the same model, undo operations etc), the contr...
I have a .Net 2.0 app that is used internally and we want to use the WebBrowser control to access some Web resources. We want to add encryption to these sites using SSL using self signed certificates. My question is if there is way to disable all the warnings about the SSL keys coming from an untrusted source? I would like to avoid to h...
UI Virtualization is an awkward terminology that describes WPF UI controls that load and and dispose child elements on demand (based on their visibility) to reduce memory footprint. ListBox and ListView use a class called VirtualizingStackPanel by default to achieve higher performance. I found this control, which is really helpful, a v...
I need to put a control to the right of my MenuStrip. The MenuStrip fades in colour away from the BackColor on the left hand side to something whiter on the right, and ideally I would like to make my small control blend in by having the same backColor as the menustrip has on that side. Does anyone know how that colour is computed? Worst...
I'm looking for a style guide to unify Windows applications. I'd like it to contain stuff like "Always put dialog result buttons 5 pixels from the edge of the window" I know Visual Studio helps me with this but I'm Delphi 7 at the moment (yeah I know). ...
What is the correct way to display UI during a custom installer action? I would like my UI to be modal on the install dialog, or alternatively, I'd like a way to display text/progress from my custom action in the installer dislog. The installer is a VS2005 setup project and the custom action is a C# Installer-derived class. ...