I'm developing a graphical application to present data (not a game but a real workhorse app). It needs to be cross platform, so I have chosen: python openGL (I need 3D, blending, textures etc) pyopengl wx/pywx - windowing, dialogs etc. The last component - WX - raises the question. I can put together a very nice looking app (the prot...
Have you ever been in a situation where a menu function you really really want to use but can't cause it's disabled or worse gone all together? There is an argument for always leaving menus enabled and then display a message to a user explaining why a menu function can not be actioned when they click on it. I think there is merit in thi...
I've done some research on using tags from social bookmarking sites for web search, but I'd like to learn more about other ways in which users might use tags for information retrieval. Do you use the tags on sites like Stack Overflow for navigation? Do you think of them like filters (narrowing down a large list of questions), or as c...
I want to draw user interfaces for web and desktop applications. I need something less print-oriented than omnigraffle. think pixels! Also, need good building blocks (aka stencils). Form elements, tableviews, etc. ...
What is your best practical user-friendly user-interface design or principle? Please submit those practices that you find actually makes things really useful - no matter what - if it works for your users, share it! Summary/Collation Principles KISS. Be Clear and Specific in what an option will achieve: e.g.: use verbs that indic...
Hi, I'm interested in the Presentation-Abstraction-Control? (aka Hierarchical-Model-View-Controller (HMVC)) Architectural Pattern for constructing complex user interfaces (GUI or web) and was wondering if anyone was aware of any examples in the wild where I could read the code? I'm aware of the JavaWorld article and associated letters...
I'm programming an application in MFC (don't ask) and I have a CEdit box that holds a number. When that number is edited, I would like to act on the change, and then replace the caret where it was before I acted on the change - if the user was just before the "." in "35.40", I would like it to still be placed before the dot if they chan...
How can I allow others to create Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, Perl web user interface components that interact with each other? For example, one web ui component written in .NET selects a customer, and the other web user interface components are written in Java, Ruby or PHP are able to refresh showing information about the selected customer f...
For a developer in the Java eco-system, there is a handful of choices when it comes to UI design. The best known are: Swing (preferred when used with Netbeans and its GUI builder) Eclipse's SWT (mostly preferred for Eclipse plug-ins) Now, are there any frameworks or design alternatives to this which target JRuby / Groovy / Jython or ...
I've had a lot of trouble trying to come up with the best way to properly follow TDD principles while developing UI in JavaScript. What's the best way to go about this? Is it best to separate the visual from the functional? Do you develop the visual elements first, and then write tests and then code for functionality? ...
Could anybody give me a url to where I can find some nice web UI stuff like the ones this website has? Ajax, dhtml, web 2.0 etc... thanks! ...
What are some good tools and techniques for making in game UI? I'm looking for things that help artists-types create and animate game HUD (heads up display) UI and can be added to the game engine for real time playback. ...
Tools like Selenium are good for testing user interactions on the web UI. However, I was curious what are people approaches for strictly testing and verifying that web pages are rendered correctly across a set of browsers? Is this even possible? ...
I'm looking to expand my knowledge of web interfaces and interactions but there are so many books out there. What would be a good few to start with? ...
I've been using Visual Studio for a long time and the constant shuffling of the code tabs at the top drives me bonkers. I was wondering if there were any add-ins that might change this or other UI behavior. Things that might be cool: Sticky Tabs that won't go away. Multi-code file collapsible tabs (maybe each tab being a project?). Ha...
I'm looking for an alternative to www.jsfmatrix.net to get a better idea of what JSF libraries are out there and to avoid having to write my own grid/table components. Or are these 27 the best the world has to offer (really only 3 are worth their salt.) ...
Hi, I am in the process of designing a .net windows forms application that uses metadata to drive the UI. Apart from finding http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954610.aspx, I have nothing much to look forward to. Anyone here worked on metadata driven User interfaces? What are the implications of following this methodology and any...
I am redesigning a command line application and am looking for a way to make its use more intuitive. Are there any conventions for the format of parameters passed into a command line application? Or any other method that people have found useful? ...
I have an application that reads a database and outputs alerts to any dependencies that are not being met. My thinking on this issue is "Give the minimum information that points the user to the issue." I have been told by a co-worker that I should be as verbose as possible, printing out the values of the database fields for each field ...
I like jQuery and I was wondering if anyone have used a good plugin or (non-jQuery) JavaScript library that allows for auto-formatting of structured fields like phone numbers or dates. I know of the jquery-ui-datapicker plugin, and not what I am looking for here. You may type in a phone number as 123 which then becomes (123), additiona...