For the first UI design I would like to populate my windows and dialogs with lookless controls. The controls may not be styled at all (no XP or Vista style). Ideally, they look so minimalistic (black-and-white rectangles) that it's clear where a text box, a button or a scroll bar. Because I'm working with Visio, my first idea were to l...
How many times has this happened to you? You are typing a long block of text into a form on a web page and you click next or submit or whatever. Then an error occurs. So you click back to fix the error and your whole spiel is gone! Today I heard a coworker cussing at our help desk software, because he typed a long solution in and got a...
Hello guys, I'm trying to replicate a UI like a gcalendar (only the layout not any of its functions) how to build a loop with a calendar to build a cute layout like that? with saturdays marked and holidays too. Thx ...
Is it possible to leave a ContextMenuStrip open after a selection/check of certain items? I plan on using a simple ContextMenuStrip to set a filter (this way i could use the same filter either in a menu or as a right-click option). The menu lists a number of items, and i would like the user to be able to make a selection of the items u...
I suck at User Interface design. I've always concentrated on the design/coding/programming part and I want to know what books I can use to be better at designing User Interfaces in general and Web Interfaces in particular. Thanks. ...
What exactly is meant by the term "rich user interface"? Does it mean the same thing when referring to user-interfaces as it does when referring to, say, communications frameworks? Does it imply that a user-interface can be "poor"? (as in the opposite of rich, not as in poorly designed) ...
I have a combobox that I don't want users adding new data too, but I also want to let them type in the title of the object they want to select. Currently I am using this code: protected virtual void comboBoxAutoComplete_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e) { if (Char.IsControl(e.KeyChar)) { //let it go i...
I am going to be creating a multi-lingual website (asp.net) and was wondering how to best handle much of the administrative screen UI work where the end user will be maintaining lists of data that will need to be in multiple languages. Anyone know of any good sample applications I can take a look at? Example scenario. I have a screen ...
Hi, Soon I will have to start a web project for a company, and I now need to choose a technology to build the app. I'm thinking about using Java, hence I'd like to find a framework that will help me building the app (I'm used to PHP framework such as CakePHP & CodeIgniter). What I don't understand is that it seems to exist a lot of fra...
One thing that I can't get my head around is the persistent questioning here, and elsewhere on the web, about disabling OS-based 'features'. People are forever asking how to disable default OS shortcuts (like copy-paste, the Windows key, etc.), or disabling features programmatically. Surely this is very, very bad practice? To modify a...
Are there any open source frameworks that are for this purpose? How does UI design differ when designing a software appliance console from traditional web applications? Any examples of particularly well-design user interfaces for software appliances? ...
Are there any guidelines/recommendations on how long the input fields should be on HTML forms. Specifically: Viewable length (the length of the input field the user can see on the screen - without having to scroll horizontally. i.e. SIZE, not MAXLENGTH) Capture length (the number of characters the HTML form will save to the database) ...
I'm trying to do some unit/integration tests between pages of my ASP.NET site but can't seem to find any tool that can work effectively with modal dialogs generated by the showModalDialog command (FF3, IE). Does anyone have experience testing these annoying things? Update: @bbmud was right--WatiN supports modal dialogs very well. Her...
I am using beforeShowDay to highlight special days in my jQuery datepicker. The only way I am able to change the background is to use the '!important' tag in my css class. This works perfectly for all days except 'today'. The css does not change the background color, only the border. my css: .genEvent a { border:solid 1px #DC143C !i...
I want to build an application with a text based UI that is similar to the Linux command 'top', in Ruby. What toolkits and/or techniques can I use to build the UI? In particular I want an area of the console window that is constantly updating, and the ability to press keys to manipulate the display. ...
Hi, Can anyone explain how is dependency property implemented? Is it just a static dictionary that is declared in base class with a reference of given instance as a key?I can't find any resources about this in internet...Thanks a lot ...
I have a data entry page where the user is required so make some selections from a list. Currently it is just a check list with about 10 items they can tick, but is will expand soon to about 230. What is a good UI paradigm for dealing with a large number of selectable items? I am considering dual list type control. ...
I am looking for a UI Framework that supports the following features: Integrated with Apache Commons Config and/or JFig Supports nested tabs Understands users/groups/roles Can interact with JMX MBeans Doesn't require Javascript in order to function Written in Java and ideally JSP-based ...
I have an interface that has large numbers of controls, see image below. What is the best way to access these, creating 288 IBOutlets in my AppController class and linking them all up seems inefficient. I looked at forms, but they seemed to simplistic. This is a proof-of-concept and will not ship so I'm open to any ideas. One caveat...
Suppose you have a subsystem that does some kind of work. It could be anything. Obviously, at the entry point(s) to this subsystem there will be certain restrictions on the input. Suppose this subsystem is primarily called by a GUI. The subsystem needs to check all the input it recieves to make sure it's valid. We wouldn't want to FireTh...