user-interface

How to create semi-transparent control on semi-transparent Windows form like IE8?

From my recent question, I ask about how to create semi-transparent Windows form. But, I find some bug when I use Windows form controls on semi-transparent area. Some text on windows form control is displayed incorrectly. Please see text("Simple Text") on Textbox control. Thanks, ...

Testing Webservice with SoapUI windows authentication

Is it possible to include the windows domain credentials to test my webservice with soap ui? I found a properties page but the IIS just responses with "wrong credentials". ...

UI iphone submit a form to javascript

Hi all. I want to make a button in UI iphone (not web iphone) to submit a form (with elements) to Javascipt like the mention below: I have already a javascript file in my page: htpp:/www.myaddress/myfile.js This javascript contain a function called "doTransmit(PIOform)". I want to create a form in UI iphone application consists some f...

WPF Grid Items and Right Aligned Text

I have a WPF form where I'm trying to make a simple input form. Two labels, two textboxes, and a "submit" button. I have the layout pretty good, the only thing that I can't get is for my "Labels" to be right aligned inside their cells. I have tried both TextAlign="Right" and HorizontialAlign="Right", that moves the text ALL the way ov...

Simple menu-like navigation in WinForms

Hello everyone, I am writing a very simple WinForms application with few data-entry forms. But before the user gets to these forms, she has to select which action to take (ie which form to open, possibly after entering a search query). As this application is a rewrite of a legacy custom DOS FoxPro app, the user wants the UI to be as sim...

CAknSlider control within a CAknView container ( not as a Setting item )

I am amazed at how well the native Symbian components are implemented. One of them is CAknSlider. CAknSlider is a control that has a slider that users can use to slide it along a bar whose orientation can be vertical or horizontal. Now when you slide the slider the sliding is very smooth and does not flicker. But if for some reason I we...

UITableViewCellEditingStyleInsert or UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone ?

I have data edit controller similar to the EditableDetailView sample from the SDK. The view shows only the fields with values in the non-editing mode and in editing mode it adds the unpopulated fields too as placeholders. Unlike the SDK example the set of fields is fixed so no new placeholers have to be added during edit. My question is ...

WPF: Any cool UI ideas i can look at?

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) was going to hopefully usher in a new era of cool applications and user interactions. Television shows and movies have always been good at coming up with cool prop (i.e. non-functional) user interfaces. CSI, Minority Report, Quantum of Solice, all show off cool things that people might wish compute...

Capture touch of iPhone navigation bar title?

Is there a mechanism to capture when a user touches on the navigation bar TITLE in a standard navigation based iPhone app? Thanks! ...

Data Entry with Linked Combos

I have a scenario where I have three combos. All three are populated with the same data, but use different fields from the data for their display text. The Extension, Name, and Room combos are all populated from the Extension table. If the user selects an extension, the Room and Name combo selections must update to the values for the ...

Do I need server-end knowledge (e.g. Django, Rails), if I want to do Javascript, AJAX stuff?

Hi People, I am trying to get into web development, specially interested building the front-end, UI part of websites while learning JavaScript maybe with AJAX technology. (I have a UI, HCI background.) However, I have absolutely no previous knowledge about server-end web development either. To my understanding, frameworks like Django s...

Smart progress bar ETA computation

In many applications, we have some progress bar for a file download, for a compression task, for a search, etc. We all often use progress bars to let users know something is happening. And if we know some details like just how much work has been done and how much is left to do, we can even give a time estimate, often by extrapolating fro...

Drupal 5: Flag module - display user flagged items in a block

I am aiming to get a list of the current user's flagged items in a block which I can use in my node.tpl.php The functionality required is a "comparison list" of products. Can anyone with experience of the flag module in D5 point me in the right direction? I essentially want to be able to say: <?php print $all_current_user_flags ?> Is...

What are the basic questions to ask a person who wants his Medium sized website done?

I wanted to know the basic question that a person needs to ask if someone wants his web app done?? It can be UI,platform,crux of the applications and many other things...Please post what one needs to know before starting to work on a app. ...

What is the most user friendly ASP.NET MVC Grid View Control?

For a new project, we are evaluating the use of ASP.NET MVC and one of the requirements is that we have a very rich UI experience with inline record editing (i.e. the user clicks "edit" and the labels turn into text boxes and drop down lists and can update, delete, or cancel). We need all of the drop down lists to be populated from a da...

Designing a main form ("main menu") for a WinForm application

The form that currently loads during when our beta WinForm application starts up is one that shows a vast array of buttons... "Inventory", "Customers", "Reports", etc. Nothing too exciting. I usually begin UI by looking at similar software products to see how they get done, but as this is a corporate application, I really can't go dow...

How can I use a custom TabItem control when databinding a TabControl in WPF?

I have a custom control that is derived from TabItem, and I want to databind that custom TabItem to a stock TabControl. I would rather avoid creating a new TabControl just for this rare case. This is what I have and I'm not having any luck getting the correct control to be loaded. In this case I want to use my ClosableTabItem control in...

What is the use of AccessibleContext in Java Swing?

Hello! I've seen a lot of examples which use getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleDescription(...) to set some "magic" description. What is the use of this description? Where can it be seen and how should it support accessibility? Why setDescription(...) is not used? Additionally, what is your opinion / experience with Java accessibil...

How do I center controls without resizing them? (.net Winforms)

I have a fairly simple user control that represents a basic login control. So it has a couple labels, text boxes, and a button. I would like this user control to fill its container, so I have set its dock mode to fill. So far easy enough. Now, I would like all the controls in my user control to be centered based on whatever size my...

Console UI in Winform App

We have a legacy application running on UNIX. Our windows users login to the application via a terminal application or commaind prompt. The app looks like one of those car-dealer like application which runs in dos mode interface. I am creating a new winform interface to the application but still want to keep the legacy application onlin...