Hey guys, Basically I'm going to go a bit broad here and ask a few questions to get a bit of a picture of how people are handling UI these days. Lately I've found it pretty easy to do some fancy things with UI design and with WPF specifically we're finding new ways to do layouts that are better looking and more functional for the user,...
The question is pretty self-explanatory, but for those of you pushing out new applications, or having to support legacy systems, how do you effectively get training for new users out there? I think the way of handing over a book is obsolete, and spending an hour or two showing someone around a system is just a waste of time as a develop...
I have a multiple selection SELECT field which I don't want the end user to be able to change the value of. For UI reasons, I would like to be able to do this without using the disabled="true" attribute. I've tried using onmousedown, onfocus, onclick and setting each to blur or return false but with no success. Can this be done or am ...
Is there a better way to flash a window in Java than this: public static void flashWindow(JFrame frame) throws InterruptedException { int sleepTime = 50; frame.setVisible(false); Thread.sleep(sleepTime); frame.setVisible(true); Thread.sleep(sleepTime); frame.setVisible(false); Thread.sleep(sleepTime); ...
Hello, The demos for the jquery ui dialog all use the "flora" theme. I wanted a customized theme, so I used the themeroller to generate a css file. When I used it, everything seemed to be working fine, but later I found that I can't control any input element contained in the dialog (i.e, can't type into a text field, can't check checkb...
I'm writing my first iPhone app, so I haven't gotten around to figuring out much in the way of debugging. Essentially my app displays an image and when touched plays a short sound. When compiling and building the project in XCode, everything builds successfully, but when the app is run in the iPhone simulator, it crashes. I get the foll...
As one of those people that never got around to properly learning design (or having no talent for it), the design seems to be the step always holding me back. It's not a problem for rich-clients, as the standard GUI toolkits provide some acceptable ways to design a good-looking interface, but the web is another story. Question: Does an...
Which is the right order for arranging buttons in a dialog box? ...
OpenID is a great idea in principle, but the UI and the explanation as to why it is good are currently not tailored for general use -- what do you think it would take to make OpenID work for the general public? Can this be solved with technology, or is the problem so intrinsically hard that we are stuck with difficult explanations/multi...
When creating a wireframe for a website, I always start with a Visio wireframe stencil from Garrett Dimon. The stencil is amazing but it has been a few years since it has been updated and I'm looking for something new and exciting. What wireframing tool(s) do you use, if any? ...
I have been playing with the Ruby library "shoes". Basically you can write a GUI application in the following way: Shoes.app do t = para "Not clicked!" button "The Label" do alert "You clicked the button!" # when clicked, make an alert t.replace "Clicked!" # ..and replace the label's text end end This made me think - how...
When downloading both Firefox and Chrome, I've noticed that the default version I got was in my native tongue of Hebrew. I personally don't like my applications in Hebrew, since I'm used to the English UI conventions embedded in me since long ago by: The lack of choice: Most programs don't offer interfaces in multiple languages and whe...
Something to take an XML schema and let you add/edit data but not change the XML structure, preferably installed on a server. basically a UI to edit xml documents as a web app. Someone has got to have done this already right? ...
And if you do, can you give some background information on the implementation and the reasons for implementing this pattern? The pattern is described in more detail in these articles: Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines IUIs and Web-Style Navigation in Windows Forms, Part 1 & Part 2 ...
I want to disable the selection of certain rows in a datagridview. It must be possible to remove the select property for one or more datagridview rows in a datagridview shown in a winform. The goal is that the user can't select certain rows. (depending on a condition) Thankx, ...
In a web interface, I've got a text field. When user enters text and accepts with enter, application performs an action. I wanted to test the behavior with Selenium. Unfortunately, invoking 'keypress' with chr(13) insert representation of the character into the field. Is there a way other then submitting the form? I'd like to mimic int...
I want to simulate a 'Web 2.0' Lightbox style UI technique in a Windows Forms application. That is, to draw attention to some foreground control by 'dimming' all other content in the client area of a window. The obvious solution is to create a control that is simply a partially transparent rectangle that can be docked to the client are...
I want to use a specific foreign language font for a Blackberry application. How is such a font created and loaded onto the Blackberry device? For example: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ...
Can anyone point to any websites or web applications that are using the Presentation-Abstraction-Control design pattern rather than MVC? Desktop applications are easy to find like this (e.g.; GIMP) but I'm looking for something on the web. ...
Specifically, what are some GUI resources on the web based on case studies that suggest best practices on a scientific basis rather than a subjective one? ...