I've run into a problem that I'm certain others have hit and solved. In several places in my application I have 'Grids'. More specifically Infragistic's UltraWinGrid's - but the idea is that, inside of a grid press 'TAB' moves you to the next cell in the grid. When you are in the last cell of a row, pressing tab will move you to the n...
From time to time you can see smooth animated transition displayed for resizing, expanding and appearing graphical controls. Not just some tail-wagging file search dog, but animation of widget configuration changing it's state structurally and/or geometrically. I haven't used Windows Vista much, but sure know that on XP you can set this...
I want to allow users to upload files with transaction information to my application. I want users to be able to user their own file format when doing so (XML or CSV). So I'm going to need a transformation from their format to my format before doing further processing. I don't want to have to create this XSLT manually every time a use...
Is there a straighforward way to set additional text to appear in a tooltip when a user's mouse is held over an item in a CheckedListBox? What I would expect to be able to do in code is: uiChkLstTables.DisplayOnHoverMember = "DisplayOnHoverProperty"; //Property contains extended details Can anyone point me in the right direction to d...
I've got a "Main Window" containing quite a few things, including, in the status bar (at the very bottom of the window), a "Support" button, which the user can use at any time to open a window containing our support phone number, along with a little chat functionality if the user prefers to chat with us. The problem is that if the progr...
What are the good automated web UI testing tools? I want to be able to use it in the .Net world - but it doesn't have to written in .net. Features such as a record mode, integration into build process\ continuous integration would be nice. Im going to look at: Watir Selenium Are there any others I should look at? ...
I'm developing an user control in .NET 3.5. As reaction to some event, I would like to show a simple bubble containing a short text on this control, similar to the well-known system tray notification bubbles. I'm sure this is a very easy task, could you give me a quick hint? ...
I am looking to create an editable ListView in a C# winforms application where a user may double click on a cell in order to change its contents. It would be great if someone could provide my with some guidance and/or an example. I am not looking to use any commercial products. ...
I've heard and used some of the libraries like Ext JS, qooXdoo, jQuery UI, dijit. I know there are unofficial attempts to create GUI builders but they are not really great. Any chance there is a HTML/JavaScript UI widget library with a decent GUI builder? ...
I’m currently involved in the design of a prototype Silverlight 3 application used by call centre operators in an enterprise who take queries via phone and email. The intention of the prototype is to demonstrate how Silverlight can be used to improve the UX and overcome some of the hurdles of using ASP.NET webforms in a high latency envi...
I'm trying to put standard output from nmap into WPF window application (textbox exactly). I'm trying to use Dispatcher.Invoke but when nmap process starts everything just freezes. When I tried this in a console application (w/o Invoke), everything worked just fine, I think it's a problem with the Invoke method. Nmap itself is working, a...
I'm working on a viewer program that formats the contents of a database. So far it's all been read-only, and I have a Refresh button that re-queries the database if I want to make sure to use current data. Now I'm looking at changing the viewer to an editor (read-write) which involves writing back to the database, and am realizing there...
Has anyone been able to get jQuery UI Tabs 3(Latest version) working with the back button? I mean if the user hits the back button they should go to the previously visited tab on the page, not a different page. The history plug in sounds like it can work, but i cant seem to make it work with ajax loaded tabs. If anyone has managed to ...
so far, I found Anthony Franco, Raju Bitter...but I want to know what others follow: I want some really good blogs to track RIA, UI Design, Ajax, Silverlight, Flash, Flex.. ...
I'm learning wxPython so most of the libraries and classes are new to me. I'm creating a Preferences dialog class but don't know the best way to make sure the OK/Cancel (or Save/Close) buttons are in the correct order for the platform. This program is intended to run both on GNOME and Windows, so I want to make sure that the buttons are...
I am currently working on a web app that will replace old systems in some office. (very old as in they are in FoxPro) My current task is to develop a very desktop-like fast UI, meaning like, trying not to use the mouse at all, so they can capture data fairly quickly and they do it almost without even looking. They expect things like: ...
Does anyone know of any websites that feature open source MFC addins for things around UI? ...
I am designing a WinForms CRUD "like" app for a large group of Nurses and Social Workers to interact with Client information. There are many different forms(about 30ish) that they need to "possiblly" interact with for any given client and they "can be" required to jump from one to another for a specific person. I am strugghling wit...
We use UI Automation and Nunit to create tests UI tests for WPF application. We've created tests that work fine when you run them from a local machine. Those tests never run successfully on our build server (using TeamCity). Build always hang after opening application window. But if I am logged in (remote desktop), on our build server al...
I have a C++ MFC app with a dialog where I want to change the type of the control dynamically based on the selection in a combo box. The dialog resource starts off with a plain old edit control which I then call SubclassDlgItem on to change to a custom control type. So far so good. Now, when the user changes the selection in a differe...