When several text fields on a form are logically grouped into a groupbox and are optional in the scope of the form, is it better to add a check box saying "Yes I want to fill these fields out" or is best to just leave them blank? The checkbox does provide a useful flag saying 'Hey, group XYZ is valid." ...
Folks, I'm looking to build a piece of PHP5 UI that I'm pretty sure is common to a bunch of applications. Basically, it's an expression builder that allows users to specify expressions combined through logical operators (AND/OR), like this: FieldX > 3 AND FieldY = 5 FieldY = "bob" and FieldZ is not null FieldX > '5/23/2007' OR (Field...
I've got a list view and a button. The list view has columns "Server Name", "Operating System" and "Description". The button populates the list view with computer records from Active Directory. The columns are clickable, and sort the list view as relevant. When doing the comparisons, should I be using the user's current culture setting...
Basically I want to override some function in the flex/actionscript list class which creates a new ItemRenderer and passes it the required data ready to be displayed. I need to do this because I wish to show a different renderer based on the type of data being displayed. Is there such a function? I don't really want to pass the list a...
In the application I am working with, if the user changes the value in a cell that is say positive to negative and the value is supposed to be positive at all times, the application forces the positive value. Right now, when this happens there is no alert shown to the user. I would like to show a little unobtrusive alert, like the one ...
How can I implement a non-modal sliding notification bar, such as Firefox, Beyond Compare, and VMware Workstation 6.5 use, in client-side Windows apps? Any language or framework is fine for now; my current app is in Delphi / C++Builder, but I'm also interested in comparing frameworks and prototyping some UIs. Related question: This que...
Hey, all. I'm looking for a good, free graphics-based UI/GUI framework. Let's say I want to create the iPhone or Palm Pre from the ground up. How would I, using what UI framework? (Forget that Apple has created this and that libraries in the past :) just the best way to express what exactly I'm looking for.) In essence, I'm looking fo...
Not sure if you guys are familiar with YUI Uploader, but after you click "browse" and select a bunch of files, the callback event returns a list of all the files that are queued, not just the ones you just finished selecting. This poses a bit of a problem because now instead of just adding the selected files to the UI, you have to clear ...
For dialog applications traditional behavior has been to close the application when "Escape" is pressed. However some users complain about this as they often press the key by mistake. What's your approach? 1) Close the application 2) Do nothing 3) Pop an "Are you sure you want to quit?" message (possibly with a "Don't show this again" ...
I have a button which launches a "modal dialog" - it just creates a transparent grid covering everything, with the "dialog" created on top of that. However I have a strange issue - if I double/triple click the button really fast (or add some delay in the event code), the button click event is executed multiple times, creating multiple o...
Hi, I'm rotating a view similar to tje iTunes app. In portrait is a tableview and in landscape is photo viewver. When I return from landscape to portrait I try to recover the navigationbar but instead get a distorted tableview, and no navigation bar. This is what I do: - (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)...
Sometimes we use Photoshop, other times MS Visio. Is there any tool to design the User Inteface that is intuitive and easy to use? Also, is there any best practices. What we want to accomplish is a simple and easy to see image of how the actual UI should look. We don't want to deal with any programming at this point, since this is do...
Scenario: There is this online questionaire that will be filled in by various departments in a company. The questions are data driven and are different for each department. But for some of the questions, the way the input is taken is also different; for some departments the same question is asked to be replied to, by selecting values fr...
I have a desktop application . The functionality is complete, but user interface requires a lot of work. I am looking for UI tools.My current operating system is Windows and application is required to run on both Windows and Linux. Can you guys recommend any? The software is customized file management application for a specific client,...
Hey All Developing is more of a hobby at the moment; so apologies if this is a basic question, although after a couple of hours searching the web I can't seem to find an answer. I am currenttly building a support tool for my team which runs a number of SQL queries & BCP processes and returns the results. Some of these actions take quite...
We have an application where we are recording a one to many mapping of values, with the 'many' side containing 100+ options. A simple select list isn't going to work because ctrl+click is a little too fragile for this user community. This will be done in ASP.NET, so any pointers to existing controls for this purpose would be very much ...
I'd really love the surrounding content to "scroll" up/down in like when using Scroll - but would also love the appropriate div to "fade" in. ...
I have some rows of a table (ick!) such as: <tr id="similar_story"> <td class="title"><a href="/">Title</a> <a href="../"><img id="srcimg" src="source.png" style="display:none"></a></td> </tr> this is repeated x times [for each similar story], and when a user hovers over the .class row I want #srcimg (for that row) to appear. When t...
I am working on a site to the specification of a designer who loves to put styled scroll bars on the page (not the main scroll bar on the right, but for various fixed-height divs on the page, when the content overflows). I'm not asking if this practice is "right" or not, and I know it's generally accepted to be a bad idea in terms of us...
I have a question about how to present some structured data using HTML. I have some tree-like data, which you might normally present using sections and subsections (i.e. <h1>, <h2>, etc.) and/or using nested lists (i.e. lists whose items contain lists of sub-items). An example of this data is a to-do list, which has tasks that include ...