user-interface

What are some good JavaScript/AJAX interface patterns for websites?

I really like how sites like FogBugz and Facebook offer snappy user interfaces by loading page content asynchronously. What are some good resources and patterns for applying this to other websites? I am looking for a solution that creates a unique hash URL for each page, preserves history and basic browser functions, and degrades gracef...

Unselect item from a ListBox so NotifyPropertyChanged is called when clicked

I have an ItemsControl with DataTemplates that contain ListBoxes with ItemsSource all bound to different ObservableCollections of the same type, each ListBox's SelectedItem is bound to the same property that raises PropertyChanged so that other visual elements of my UserControl will update with the SelectedItem's details. Everything wor...

DataGridView blocks the UI Thread

I am working on application which uses a DataGridView control. Since there is a lot of data I use the VirtualMode to use paging, but even with this feature this take a while to update DataGridView. So I created a control which spins and entertain an user. Unfortunately there are some issues with this solution, namely when the entertainme...

Using Raphael.js to draw ui elements

Know of any examples of using raphaeljs extensively to make ui elements for a web app.  Form containers/windows, tabbed controls, etc.  Any suggestions when doing so(like caching the generated svg/rvml for reuse?)? ...

how to use jquery UI autocomplete 1.8.4?

i want to display suggests like STREET NAME > CITY > COUNTRY (4 different varaibles street,city,country,url that i get in json from the server) and when i chose one it will go to url like a link and will highlight the letters that i type that found in the suggests how can i do it? here is my code <script type="text/javascript"> $('#...

Are there any 3rd party UI libraries for Android?

I've seen specialized Android UI libraries like for charting, but none for alternate implementations of controls and containers. Are there any? ...

Qt: Advice about dynamic UI

I'm trying to make an UI that contains a list of such items: User can change the count of the items, so the UI is dynamic. What are the best components to get user input, like in the picture? Is it multiple QLabels and QLineEdits? What is the best way to manage them? ...

Making UI for console application

How can I make an interface for console applications to make them look like edit.com under Microsoft's operating systems. Target languages are C, C++ and C#.NET. ...

In what is the pip.io UI built?

Can anyone tell me if the http://pip.io UI is built in AJAX or only JavaScript? The reason I ask this is that I noticed the UI is scalable in the browser. So with different screen resolutions it displays the same. ...

Effective way to handle redundant UI elements in Android?

I have numerous activites in my Android app., and most should contain the same, relatively complex set of UI widgets on the screen's top area (lets say that its a kind of toolbar that you can find on most screens). Right now, every screen's layout contains the markup for this toolbar, along with its logic inside every Activity's source,...

Order of OK, APPLY, CANCEL buttons.

An extenstion of this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50335/ok-cancel-or-cancel-ok Where should the APPLY button go (clicking the APPLY button has the same effect as clicking OK, except the dialog remains open)? Windows typically uses OK-CANCEL-APPLY, but my inclination is to use OK-APPLY-CANCEL. Also, if the APPLY button...

gtk: indicate a button should be pressed

What's the best way to indicate on a GTK interface that a button should be pressed / to "highlight" the button? The use case is that I have a set of checkboxes representing various settings, but for them to take effect, they must be submitted to a server. I want to indicate that the currently checked settings have not been sent to the se...

displaying combined similar data

I'm designing a web application - prototyping and wireframing the main pages so I've got an idea of what it will do. I'm struggling on how to display my data to users. We basically provide them with an email inbox, a phone message system and a fax system. This means three different types of data - one is textual, one is audio and one is...

Indent bullet list in TextView

I have a TextView which I fill with text from a string resources in strings.xml. The string resource contains < li > elements to create a bullet list inside the TextView. My problem is that I want to control the indention of lines in the bullet list that span over more than one line. Default the text isn't indented past the bullet so it ...

java- gui design aesthetics

Hi, I am new to GUI design, and would like to know if there is somekind of standard "project" that I can find a set of "standard"- or not- images for my various components, e.g. buttons, jtree etc so that my GUI looks nicer. If there are icons by theme, would be great.I am using NetBeans but it seems that there is no library of icons in...

How to display a "loading" overlay on windows forms while the form is loading its controls (or updating them) ?

I'm looking for an effective way to notify the user that a given form is currently loading (or updating) it's UI and it will take few seconds. This may occurs at initial load or at update. Since it's very intensive and modifying ui controls, this has to be done on the ui thread, and therefore blocking the user. Changing the cursor is n...

How to re-engineer an Ui-File from a given QWidget instance

Does anybody know if the Qt Toolkit provides a way to generate Ui Files from a given QWidget instance? Speaking in pseudo-code, I'm looking for something like this: //setup widget QWidget* pMyWidget=new QWidget(...); //fill widget with life pMyWidget->layout()->addWidget(new QLabel(...)); ... //finally write a Ui file: pMyWidget->expo...

How to generate WPF Form using T4 ?

Hello, One of our product requirement is to allow the generation of Search form. So we need to facilitate the user to generate the search form based on the selected data fields. Now our application is in WPF. Can anybody guide me how to start this thing. I have been told to research on T4, But any kind of help will be appreciated. Rega...

I no longer see the dolphin animation in MySQL Query Browser

I've become used to seeing the dolphin swimming animation when an operation is running in MySQL Query Browser. I'm currently using v1.2.13 and the animation (at the top right of the window) is not there. I can't find a setting in the toolbars or the 'Options' to enable/disable it. Am I missing a setting somewhere? Where has he gone,...

jquery ui multiple dialogs

I couln't find any working example so i am trying my luck. i have a list of pages that i want to edit them via a jquery ui dialog. I already have every edit link with it's own id -- but i have no idea how to tell this jquery line $('#open_edit_by').click(function() { to open a window by id. (if i use php - it will work just for one). i k...