Hello Everyone, I'm developing a mobile project that I really want to look good. I love the way the iPhone controls look and I'm wondering if anyone knows of any free UI components that can help me make my app look more like the iPhone? Specifically, I'm really wanting a GREAT looking listbox. Any ideas? Thanks! ...
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As long as I program, I always did it with MS-technologies. There was DOS, MFC , VB6, then .net with WinForms and now WPF. In all these technologies, the GUI-thing was always more or less the same, because it based on Win32 (except DOS). With WPF now all has totally changed. MS introduced a lot of new possibilities, beginning with the d...
Any suggestions on how to create a Photoshop style floating tool palette? I've tried several ideas such as: Creating a child window, setting its FormBorderStyle to FixedToolWindow and showing it as a child of the main form, but the tool window steals focus from the main form. Creating a child window as above and using various combinati...
Hiya All, We currently use Google Maps to place points of partners we work with on a certain projects, we have a large number of "pins" across the globe. But what we would like to do is completely redesign it from the generic google maps map and pins to maybe something more adventurous or "cooler". We're looking for inspiration for th...
I need to create an application that can have numerous documents open on several (between 2 and 6) monitors. The current version of the application uses a traditional MDI interface which does not work well with multiple monitors. I am thinking of making an interface similar to GIMP/Delphi 7 which has a main program toolbar and all other ...
Q.1. What are the advantages and disadvantages, from a usability standpoint, of embedding PDFs in a web page? Q.2. In general, for the average computer user, which scenario provides the most "streamlined" experience? Q.3. Would using cookies to remember the options substantially improve Scenario #2? Scenario #1 User sets options. Us...
I have a C# WinForms application. This exception is thrown within the static void Main() method when a DevExpress XtraMessageBox is displayed prior to starting up the main UI form. Below is the code (simplified): static void Main(string[] args) { // Display Splash Screen. SplashForm.Start(); if (!CheckLicense()) Xtr...
When you go to http://slides.html5rocks.com/ you can see the entire presentation (with a previous and next slide peeking from the sides - all while it is relative to the screen size of the user). How do I do that with jQuery + HTML5? I just want to have a bunch of images (think a photo gallery) that can be cycled through like that. When...
Can you suggest good practices for information related to validation messages in the user interface. Assuming you have a the following tables (User, Address, Email) and we use JPA to model our entities and the underlying validation provider is Hibernate. The default messages which are throws when a value is empty or incorrect is either ...
I have a Silverlight page that has few controls and all of the behaviors are not databound. For example, RichTextBox is databound for the Text property. But the controls behaviors like Bold, Italic, Numbered, etc are driven from a button click event from toolbar above the control. These controls do change the value of the Data, but do no...
Hello all! I read carefully the good UI practice from the Google Dev Blog; http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html and I found that they are right and twitter is an application that I really love for its User Friendly Interface ( like the Google IO app too) As I spend most of my time deve...
Hello, why does the icons do a br> itself Heres what i mean: Source: .ui-icon-bullet { background-position: -80px -144px; } <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-bullet"></span> Hello ...
I have a class that extends FrameLayout called NoteView. It is a top level public class. It works just fine when I'm creating the UI from java code, but I can't figure out how to use it in XML. I tried inserting the fully qualified class name just like I would for a custom view, but I get and exception ClassCastException: android.view....
I went to my bank website the other day and entered my account number with a trailing space. An error message popped that said, "Account number must consist of numeric values only." I thought to myself, "Seriously?! You couldn't have just stripped the space for me?". If I were any less of a computer geek, I may even have thought, "What? ...
I think this problem is best described in code. I'm sure the solution is close, I just haven't been able to find it. I've been looking over the Qt4 api as well as doing tutorials. Here is my code so far: require 'Qt4' class PictureCommentForm < Qt::Widget def initialize(parent = nil) super() #setFixedSize(300, 100) @comm...
I have a custom class called NoteView that extends FrameLayout. Previously, I had just been using the stock LinearLayout and have an XML layout built already that I want to reuse by adding that entire hierarchy (with some other overlay views which is why I needed framelayout) to the NoteView. The problem is I can't figure out how to in...
Hi, I would like to change the style of the status bar after the web app is launched in full screen. I understand that it is possible to change the status for a whole webpage. Is it possible to change it by Javascript? Thanks! ...
Hi. Im posting from my phone so please excuse stupid typos and formatting issues. I have an activity which lists saved games that the player can load. I created a simple layout xml file which defines a ScrollView. On load, I grab all the saved games and programatically add a view for each saved game to a vertically oriented LinearLa...
How can I change the appearance of jQuery dialog box to a tooltip bubble? Does jQuery dialog supports this kind of customizations? ...