I have used CAPTCHA on my various web sites in the standard manner where I generated some obfuscated string of characters (odd pair of words, random number, etc.) in an image for the user to manually reproduce in a text box. I am also aware of recaptcha.net which extends the basic functionality of screening bots from humans and as well ...
How do I create a Sidebar for my application in VC++? Something similar to the one on Windows Vista or even Google Desktop Sidebar, which can be docked to the desktop window rather than to the application window. ...
I have an activity called A, and on the selection of menu item 0, it spawns service B, which starts a runnable C in a new thread. I have a TextView in activity A, which I want to access in thread C. I've tried making the TextView a public static field, but that generates the following error: 07-21 07:26:25.723: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(...
I am the only dev in a very small IT shop and as such I have no one to turn to when it comes to the look of my applications. I am left to my own devices as to what looks good with what and what matches what. This got me wondering, where do other programmers get their color ideas? Am I the only programmer who likes all of his apps i...
I'm current a computer science student with a minor in psychology. I have the programming down when it comes to software design, but not so much the design of UI. What are some good books/websites/blogs for learning design principles for user interfaces and/or websites? ...
I am using DevExpress controls in a winform app I am building for internal use. My app has about 30 forms in total and I am trying to figure out a way to allow my user's to select a theme. I have seen this mentioned here at SO multiple times in answers to other posts. I understand how the StyleController works, I believe, but what I...
Should be the ones that you really think good! ...
I'm writing a COM add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This add-in has some user-configurable settings (about a page full of them actually... or perhaps even more than a single page). What is the standard way of presenting these to the user? Through a custom page under Tools->Options? (how?) Under a custom button on a custom toolbar? A...
I need some actionscript code to simulate the dragging and dropping of a Sprite, I was wondering if it is possible to do so? if it is how? For example to simulate a click on a Sprite I can achieve with the following line of code. sprite.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK)); ...
MochaUI is very intuitive and the modal iframes almost perfectly replicate Windows. Unfortunately, I have scripts written in Jquery that I use, and I hear there are conflicts when putting both Mootools and Jquery on one html file (is this true?). How can I get the MochaUI features in Jquery? At the very least, is there a similar modal ...
How would I restrict visitors from changing the size of text on my web page (like by means of Strl + +/- in Firefox)? ...
I need the block certain keyboard shortcuts using c# in windows applications. All the key combinations will be specified in config file. Like : Alt + F4 Win + E Win + L what shud be the configuration in app.config for this ? And please help me with some sample code. I am a new bie in this. ...
I'm considering implementing a feature that would let visitors to my forum change the width of the pages from 800px (for example) to 100%, and vice versa... Is this a good practice? ...
I have, e.g. a listing page with filter inputs, from which the user can navigate to a capture page, where they might spend some time capturing, before returning to the listing page. When they return to the listing page, I would like their previous filter to be be automatically applied again. This is no rocket science problem, so I'm su...
I have created a transformation component, and basically it accepts data from a source, and will do very transformations before it can save the information in a database. But, I want to map between the source columns and the database columns that are called up from my transformation component. I would like it to look like the mapping i...
I'd like to draw attention temporarily (±1 sec) to a value in a UILabel when a user changes something elsewhere on the screen. I know Apple is pretty particular about what and how people add "pizazz" to their apps...and for the most part I think it's for good reasons but in my case I feel my UI would really benefit from a subtle animated...
If my application is using DSCP values, and on the way some packets may be re-tagged by network equipment or other things. The problem is that the network equipment may just talk old-style ToS, meaning it thinks it can change just the Prio bits or the ToS-bits and all will be well. But all is not well! What do I do with this ToS-byte va...
I am very impressed with the Prototip plug-in, and I was wondering if there we're a similar plug-in available for jQuery? The plug-in has to have been around longer than a few months and has to be updated regularly--or at the very least; on new releases of jQuery. ...
I'm displaying articles on a page. The article titles sometimes spill over onto two lines, and may even have only a single word on the second line. This is very undesirable. Using jQuery/CSS, what would be the best method to programmatically determine a new font-size for the titles to keep them on one line? ...
I wonder if www.aviary.com web applications are builded using flex framework. Does anyone know? ...