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Help with Structuring a Rails App

Hey guys. I'm creating a rails app and being one of the first times I've used the MVC pattern, let alone rails, I'm running into ambiguity and uncertainty. I already defined an application.html.erb which is working great, it has a yield statement which renders the current action's view. I want application.html.erb to contain some dynami...

[SWT, Java] Date time picker control

I look for date time picker control which look like this: All controls which I found don't use system layout. It would be great if this control use system style and layout. ...

WPF: How to combine Rows within a column (alternative to rowspan)?

Hi there, Is there a way to combine rows within a specific column? Hence to get something like this (I am currently using rowspan on a control i.e. Image but is there a better way?) -------------------- | |--------| | |--------| | |--------| | |--------| | |--------| -...

Fluid content div with optional sidebar.

Hello, I have a question that I haven't found addressed in the various CSS layout models I've looked at, so I thought I'd post it here. I'm working on a site that uses a basic fluid/fixed two-column layout. The content of the site is in the left div, and the sidebar in the right. The sidebar has a fixed width of 200 pixels or so, and th...

Page margins change in pdflatex

I use a style file that specifies page margins. I cannot understand the style file, but I guess it specifies bottom margins by using commands such as \vspace, \vskip, \vfil. When I compile the tex document with pdflatex the margins, especially the bottom ones, change. When I compile the document first to ps then to pdf, the margins are ...

Android: How to automatically display vertical scrollbar?

Hi, I created a user form which fits the window in vertical orientation. When the user slides the keyboard the form doesn't fit the screen (horizontal orientation). I tried to add the scrollbar but it is not visible. I would appreciate if anyone could show how to modify the following layout file in order to display scrollbar when the o...

Specifying relative positions in Layout?

Hi All, I need to implement a screen containing a list of blocks one below the other. Each block will contain mutiple superimpose elements (Images, text) for which the relative position needs to be specified with respect to the top left corner of the block. For creating the list of blocks i have used listview. For each block i tried ...

How do you make Zend Framework NOT render a view/layout when sending an AJAX response?

Zend's documentation isn't really clear on this. The problem is that, by default, Zend automatically renders a view at the end of each controller action. If you're using a layout - and why wouldn't you? - it also renders that. This is fine for normal Web pages, but when you're sending an AJAX response you don't want all that. How do you...

General way of setting element bounds

Hello There, I'm writing an application which is basically a designer very similar like Expression Blend or Visual Studio designer. So basically there are a bunch of UI elements on a design surface and you can do things such as drag'n'drop, resize, rotate, etc. The main container control, which will be the designsurface can be any cont...

div column layout, strechacle column with min-width

Hey guys I'm trying to code this 2 column div layout and I can't think of a way to do what I want... here is the code: #prospectDetailMainWrapper div{ border:1px solid purple; } #leftPanel{ height:600px; padding-right:266px; } #rightPanel{ height:600px; position:absolute; right:0; top:103px; width:265px; ...

What is the best strategy for using color scheming tools for non-designer developers?

When making color choices during web design, I use free online tools such as ColorSchemer in which I: click on a color use the colors it suggests for me This makes my designs look better than if I chose colors freely out of a color wheel. But beyond this simple approach, what are are the best strategies for using these tools to make...

User interface for an intranet system

The system that I am working on is an Intranet System only accessible within the company network to our staff. This is a primary system for storing data of all our customers. The system is entirely web based. There is a lot of data to be captured and held for each customer. At the moment opening up a customer record brings up all the inf...

Qt Layout on QMainWindow

I designed a QMainWindow with QtCreator's designer. It consists of the default central widget (a QWidget) which contains a QVBoxLayout with all the other widgets in it. Now everything I want, is that the QVBoxLayout automatically occupies the whole central widgets rectangle space. How can I do this? I didn't find any usable property nei...

Resources on creating a GUI Layout Manager?

I have been working on a simple GUI and have hit a roadblock. I haven't found any examples or even readable source on how to create a GUI layout manager. I was wondering if anyone knew of some resources on creating one, or some source code that isn't cryptic like Qt's layout engine. Thanks. ...

Isn't WPF's grid based layout the same as table based layout that's taboo in html?

Both employ the same concept: define some rows and columns and add content into specific positions. But the Grid is the most common WPF layout container, while table based layout in html is very controversial. So why is WPF's grid layout praised and html's table based layout considered "bad" (by some)? ...

How can I achive a non-scrolling filled-page layout in ASP?

The master page currently looks like this: (No, I don't work for Google. The images are placeholders.) <body> <form id="frm" runat="server"> <%--Header (Main Logo)--%> <div align="right"> <asp:Image ID="HBannImg" runat="server" AlternateText="Google" ImageUrl="http://www.google.com/intl/...

designing web interfaces for mobile devices

How do you make your website look good in both a standard browser and on the various mobile devices available? Currently I am undecided between trying to make my layout resizable so that it will work for small devices, or providing a separate CSS for mobile devices. My use case is a chess game where I want the entire board to be availa...

How to optimize the layout of rectangles

I have a dynamic number of equally proportioned and sized rectangular objects that I want to optimally display on the screen. I can resize the objects but need to maintain proportion. I know what the screen dimensions are. How can I calculate the optimal number of rows and columns that I will need to divide the screen in to and what si...

Standard Android Button with a different color

I'd like to change the color of a standard Android button slightly in order to better match a client's branding. For example, see the "Find a Table" button for the OpenTable application: The best way I've found to do this so far is to change the Button's drawable to the following drawable located in res/drawable/red_button.xml: <?xm...

Silverlight graphics pixel side position?

I try to port simple game to silverlight (SameGame). The problem is that my old source code used pixel sizes to allight game marks to board. I draw simple grid using lines and game mark (using rectangle). How i can set rentacle position correctly? Example 20 20 pixels to upper left corner). private void DrawGrid() { ...