Best way to create a numeric pad as seen in Apples telephone app
What is the best way to create a numeric pad like the one Apple uses in the telephone app? ...
user-interface
"How to build a user interface similar to Windows Explorer in Java?"
I need develop a Java UI similar to windows explorer. The interface should have itens like icons and drag'n drop feature. ...
Custom contacts selection in iPhone like in SMS/Email apps
I am creating an app that allows users to select a list of friends from their contacts list. I can open up the ABPeoplePickerNavigationController, but how can I make the chosen contacts to display like in the image below (the Rosa Golijan part): Basically, a list of light-blue rounded rect buttons, and you can easily delete one if nee...
Visualisation of derived classes in C#
I have a base class (representing a real world container filled with small spheres) and some derived classes. This works just fine. My problem is how to do their visualisation. I have a UserControl visualising the base class. Is the best solution to have a derived UserControl for each of the derived classes? Or is it better to have just ...
Netbeans file tab features
In Visual Studio I used two features very much. These are Copy full path and Open containing folder. Both are very useful for me for several reasons. Do you know any NetBeans plugins that provide these or similar functions (primarily on Windows)? UPDATE: There is a feature request in the NetBeans bugzilla since 2009-09-01 (not by me): ...
signals and slots in multilayered UI widgets
Let's say we have the follogin UI: +--------------------------+ |W1 +--------------+ | | |W2 | | | | +----------+ | | | | |W3 | | | | | +----------+ | | | | | | | +--------------+ | +--------------------------+ W3 is interested in a certain signal emi...
Generalized settings UI + settings classes
For more classes derived from a base class I decided to have a base UserControl and derived ones for each derived class (for visualisation; box on the right side of the image). Now each of the derived UserControls have a specific settings (red rectangle on left) The settings UI is a separate UserControl (can be moved freely, put to...
How do you handle when you have too many tabs in your masterpage of your application?
Hi, Actually I think it is a bit design issue. Question is, if you have programmatically generated tabs -let's say by using repeater control- at the top of your masterpage, how do you handle them after you have too many -so that they do not overlap the view-port of the browser? I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there are already ...
Feedback on website please.
Hello everybody, I was wondering what everybody thought of this project I've been working on and whether there is anything that I should change before launching it. Bare in mind this is my first go at designing a full site. Feel free to feedback on any aspect you feel is not up to scratch, ie design, code, whatever you like. I'll be...
toggle button vs image changing button
Hey All, When to use this functionality and when to use the other? I personally thing that to switch between two different modes one should use a toggle button but i need to convince some people at work. any formal UI literature on the subject? thanks ...
Web-based Circular Interface Frontend - No Graphics!
How would you create the front-end for a web-based circular interface that does not involve using graphic files or Flash? ...
Disclosure Indicator and Detail Disclosure
I have a table view cell, which is acting like button, performing some action without additional user interface presentation, then it will update the same cell with results of action. What type of accessory would be appropriate for such cells? I would like to know in which cases I should use the subject types. ...
How can I disable all buttons and links on my page, but still let the postback occur?
I'm trying to prevent the user from clicking on more than one postback-causing element on the page. In other words, if they click the 'continue' submit button, they shouldn't be able to cause another postback before the original request comes back. I've had a go with two versions of jQuery code. Neither does exactly what I want: This ...
JS Drop Down menu with submit button
I need to implement a drop down menu like the one in the image. I know how to accomplish something like this when there is no 'go' button but how would I do this with the the 'go' button? Is there a way to allow the user to select a link but not trigger it unless the user clicks the go button? Is there a jquery plugin or something for ...
WinForms aplication UI is influenced by Windows UI settings
How can I make sure that my applicaiton User Interface is not influenced by Windows UI settings? What changes should I do to my application in order to prevent it? ...
Utilizing UI abstraction
When utilizing a UI abstraction, then the data you're displaying is protected from implementation changes in the UI layer. Does/should/can this extend to higher-level things, like for example, display as a tree or a grid? I can't work out how to insulate the abstraction from the higher-level details of how the UI is going to display the ...
Flex Builder 4 Spark equivalent to Yahoo Astra Flash Layout Dragbar
I am currently looking at a couple of ways to integrate UI components into my current Flash project. I usually use Flash Develop and I have recently been evaluating the Yahoo Astra Flash library and I really like the following example (especially the horizontal and vertical drag bars): http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-flash/layout...
Real Player was designed using which technology / platform?
Real Player UI is definetely the one that I admire. Need to know its development platform. So that I can request my team to work on same platform to deliver such a nice UI. Is it .NET, MFC, WCF, WPF etc... etc... ? Also which is the apt platform to use to make the application work on Window desktop PC, Web-enabled devices, iPhone or w...
Information about development on MTK based Chinese Phones
Hi there, We are looking for developing / changing the existing UI of the MTK based mobiles. I have searched a lot but there is not much information available on the internet regarding the tools and SDK. Can someone please post few links or name of the tools which would be helpful in developing on MTK based mobiles. regards, pratik ...
Multi-segment winforms progress bar?
I'm wondering it this is a really bad usability idea, so I'm open to feedback. I need to perform two steps on a large number of items, with step 2 starting any time after step 1 has completed. However, Step 1 for Item 2 can begin any time after Step 1/Item 1 has finished, and even while step 2/Item 1 is going on. Is a multi-segment pro...