I am working on designing a collaborative system where multiple users can edit the same document, much like googledocs, and I guess 'search suggestions', but in no way as advanced. My question is this, will my design work? I know enough php/ajax to design this, using jQuery for the ajax part. But I have never made such a system, and the...
I am looking for a GUI toolkit to use on a Clozure CL project that I am working on. I would like a toolkit that is usable by a commercial project (so GPL is out unfortunetly, but LGPL is in) without a large fee like QT. I have looked into wxWidgets (which looks awesome) but Clozure's FFI only has C bindings so it appears I am out of lu...
Can someone write me a complete choose file dialog? Maybe one where you can filter out all files except for ones with specific extensions? The internet needs such an example. I have not found anything lightweight enough to implement easily into on of my projects. The only other options seem to being using OI FileManger's open intents, bu...
I'm new to web-design and javascript, and I don't understand why it's common for web designers to use the void(0) syntax below: <a onclick="this.blur();return false;" href="javascript:void(0);" class="btn"> Since this actually shows itself in the lower left hand corner of the browser, why not come up with a way to make it more user f...
The Umbraco admin interface is broken for me, and in IE8 it shows couple of javascript errors. For a few hours it worked fine, but suddenly the css/style file appears to have gotten corrupted. I had just finished with Master and hpme pages for my site, so I don't think it is related to my changes :). Does any one know how to restore th...
The Context At the moment, I have a JTextArea that has been created like so: JTextArea descArea = new JTextArea(); descArea.setFont(style.getFont()); descArea.setLineWrap(true); descArea.setName("descArea"); descArea.setToolTipText(resourceMap.getString("descArea.toolTipText")); descArea.setText(model.getName()); JScrollPane descPane =...
I would like to create jquery based navigational menu in which my main menu is on the left hand side and on click my submenu items should ne display in the main content area in tabs . I am able to achieve it in Ext-js but how to do it using jquery. for eg. if you visit http://www.trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html and clicking on the ...
Hi, I am trying to figure out the best way to acompish "unobtrusive" forms for a user (within a web app). The purpose: keep user on the site by not asking to fill unnecessary form in. Ask for the details as only when such are needed. The requrements are: User should provide additional details only when it is required (email to recei...
Hello! I'm planning to develop a GUI application that uses curses. The idea is to provide an extra interface for a web interface, so that everything on the web site could also be done via the UI. Basically, it should be platform independent: the user would have to SSH to the server after which the UI would automatically take over. Fi...
I've come onto a project that is a little bit out of my skillset (as I'm a front-end dev), but I was told to tackle it anyway. Basically what I'm trying to do is integrate jQuery UI's Autocomplete with a dataset that is plain text. Here's the "handler" file which grabs the data: <%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="ETFSymbollookupDa...
Hello!! I am a newbie to Android and playing around with the UI and SQLLite for a while and it looks pretty good to me . We have a requirement that for the App that all the questions would be coming from the server through REST / Web service which would be displayed on the App.. say for e.g if there are 4 questions 1) Enter your Name ...
What is the easiest way to change the appearance of standard widgets like Button, Spinners, ListView, etc? ...
I am working on a new UI for an existing application, currently in VB6, and have been told to make it look better / pretty. Is there anywhere I can get some good ideas around colour schemes for a business application which are not 25 shades of grey? FYI: I am working in WPF. ...
Is there any design guideline on the number of Activities an application could have? If there is a limit, what would be the ideal number of Activities that can be bundled in an Android application. ...
What is the best way to render capsule-style toolbar controls (including the label text below the buttons) in a Qt application? As far as rendering the buttons, I want to tap into what is provided by Mac OS as much as possible. (I'm not a Mac developer, so do not know if it has an API for this.) That is, I know I can draw them myself, u...
i need to develop table view for entering text data and boolean values, so i need to implement checkbox functionality for some tableview cells, i know how to implement regular tabledatasource interface for supply the data^ what about different types of cells? Thanks, alot. ...
When I try to use the MvcContrib.TestHelper.WatiN API to conduct UI unit testing that utilizes AJAX to populate select lists, I receive a SelectListItemNotFound Exception. Aside from using a Sleep statement, is there some way of "pausing" until the list is filled? The link, http://pushpontech.blogspot.com/2008/04/ajax-issues-with-watin...
Hello, I have just decided to try out the Android SDK, so I installed it and now I'm trying to make a simple interface using an XML file for a calculator I've made and that I might port to Android. Here a first draft of the XML file I want to use: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.androi...
I don't know what to call it, but you know that greenish thing covering most of the middle of the top of the iTunes window, that shows the apple symbol or shows the music slider or the status etc., what is it? I've seen several other applications using it -- how do you get it? I couldn't find it in Interface Builder. Thanks. ...
I have 2 HTML files - file1.html in xyz directory and file2.html in abc directory ... both the directories are at different levels. Now, I have a external JS file in which I have used jQuery UIAautocomplete widget and I have used datasource URL for ajax call as a PHP file say datasource.php ... Here I mentioned data source URL as abso...