user-interface

UI pattern for editing temporal tables

I'm writing a web interface to edit several values that change over time (for each employee, the changing attributes are role/division/workplace/type of contract/etc) and show the history of each change, and server-side validation. The user must be able to add new values, amend previous ones, change dates between periods, and so on. I a...

Android adding footer to ListView addFooterView() ?

I have a ListView activity that needs a footer to the list of items so that you can click it and it would load more items into the list. The list is backed my an SimpleAdapter backed by a map of strings and before the adapter is set i do this inorder to add the footer: mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_load_more_row, null); TextView foot...

A component/tools of knowledge based modeling for .Net

I have had an idea of knowledge based modeling for a long time and I have surfed internet and couldn't find a suitable component/tools for .Net development to do so. My expected features are: Knowledge based. There is a central repository to store templates of classes, interfaces, properties and attributes. We will use these templat...

How can I pass controls as reference in Bada?

In the big picture I want to create a frame based application in Bada that has a single UI control - a label. So far so good, but I want it to display a number of my choosing and decrement it repeatedly every X seconds. The threading is fine (I think), but I can't pass the label pointer as a class variable. //MyTask.h //... result Con...

What would be a good icon for voiding and unvoiding a worksheet?

In our application we have an option to void and unvoid a worksheet(make it so it doesn't matter for reporting, etc). What would be a good icon to represent this action? ...

GraphKit framework in Cocoa

Hi all, I try to draw an XY graph using GraphKit. Information of this framework is very limited on the internet... Here's what I did: // a xychart is predefined in header as GRChart GRDateSet *dataset = [[GRXYDataSet alloc] initWithOwnerChart:xychart]; [xychart addDataSet:dataSet loadData:YES]; [xychart reloaddata]; also I imple...

Game GUI design for building new units

I'm developing a multiplayer strategy wargame based on a hexagonal grid, and trying to make the user interface as intuitive and simple as possible. The basic interaction is "select unit then select action by clicking on a target". For example, when you click on a unit all the potential actions for the unit are highlighted. This is conte...

Cool user interface alternatives and improvements for Scroll Bars

Scroll bars are really boring. I've seen a few really inventive new user interfaces for updating these. I believe there are many better ways to spend 10px then with a solid color and static buttons. Here are two examples I've found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnXY4wjuH8 http://chikuyonok.ru/u/demo/infoscroller/ (credit for this li...

How to change the look of a field from BlackBerry's BrowserContent

How do I change the styling of the UI field created from a BlackBerry (4.7 JDE) BrowserContent? The HTML content is displayed, however we're stuck with a white background and black font. We've tried setting the properties of the field and overriding the paint() method to no avail. Thanks! ...

Using classes to hold strings related to software messages

Hello guys, What do you think about the use of public static classes to hold on errorMessages and Ui button names, etc? Example: public static class UiMessages { public const string ConfirmationDialogTitle = "Atenção"; public const string ConfirmationLandOwnerDelete = "Você tem certeza que deseja deletar os prop...

Android Multiple Animations.

HI, When trying to show more than one animation at the same time sometimes one of the animations "hickups" and just seems to jump right to the end position. What im trying to achive is have a Gallery baseed mebu that changes the current view in a ViewFlipper, the Gallery changes the current view on the setOnItemClickListener. if i don'...

using the db to prevent errors in a UI presentation

I am going though this msdn article by noted DDD expert Udi Dahan, where he makes a great observation that he said took him years to realize; "Bringing all e-mail addresses into memory would probably get you locked up by the performance police. Even having the domain model call some service, which calls the database, to see if the e-mail...

What is the best way to work with a user interface/user experience designer on an iPhone app?

I have a friend who is a graphic designer & user experience designer who will be collaborating with me to develop an iPhone app. He does not have previous iPhone experience. What is the best way to work with him on developing the user interface, i.e. custom colors for UITableViews, UIButtons, etc? We've looked into Photoshop mock ups,...

What is the best user interface for showing hierarchy within a hierarchy in a WinForm app

We have the following hierarchy: Environment->Machines->Local contents within a machine We are planning to show this hierarchy using an in-place navigation just like the Windows File explorer feature in Vista and beyond. We have a set of performance counters for environments and for machines. In addition, these counters also have an ...

java border gui

I am not good with GUIs or User Interfaces in Java. Would a Border or JPanel be good for something like the image below? So, what would be the best option for me? Thank you. ...

creating a configuration pane in javascript

I am looking to create a generic config pane for a grease monkey plugin. I was wondering if there exists a lib to make this easier? I am looking for some tool where you might give it some name/value pairs and it will generate a nice looking UI. I think ive seen this somewhere but forgot the search terms. ...

How do you handle a user notification popup "ribbon" - similar to SO's?

In my asp.net MVC app, I'm planning a user notification system similar to SO's. Here's the table structure I'm thinking of: Message table -------------------------------- PK MsgId BigInt FK UserId UniqueIdentifier Body nvarchar(200) IsRead TinyInt DateSent DateTime First, does this DB structure look ok? i...

java jpanel not working

I'm trying to make a 4x5 Grid within a JPanel that is on a BORDERLAYOUT in EAST... soo here is pic: Here is the code: setLayout( new BorderLayout() ); JPanel invOne = new JPanel(newGridLayout(4,5)); JPanel game = new JPanel(); add("Center",invOne); add("East", game); add("South", c); for (int i = 0, j = 2...

how does the browser font size decide the way our application is rendered

We have a standard j2ee application written using jboss richfaces 3.3.x. we have several style classes to decide the size of the font family and size. Some of the end users who use our application have their own font settings (in Mozilla under Tools-->Options-->Content-->Default Options-->Advanced. It has the checkbox "Allow pages to ch...

Is it possible to mimic sliding doors technique in CSS to have buttons without images

We use the sliding doors technique in CSS with sliced background images as mentioned here to create buttons which are oval shaped and have the color change and press down effect. Would it be possible to do something simmilar just with CSS but without using any background images. ...