I'm currently revisiting an area of my Windows-based software and looking at changing the relationship from 1->M to M->M. As a result, I need to adjust the UI to accommodate selecting multiple related records. There are a lot of ways to handle this that are common, but usually pretty clunky. Examples include the two-pane list of all ite...
I would like to add in my web app ability to add comments to a specific word in the page. Something like the LaTex footnotes. The UI I had in mind is, each word would be highlighted when the mouse hovers over it (or that the space after it is being highlighted), and when the user clicks, a textbox to enter the comment pops up near the p...
Hey All, I'm designing an iphone application from a designer's POV so I'm unsure about some of the more complex interactions in the iphone SDK. Curious if anyone knows if this is possible: I noticed that most text fields will open up the keyboard without any auto-suggest going on. I'm wondering if its possible for the textfield to open...
I'm trying to set tooltips on a JEditorPane. The problem is that the method which I use to determine what tooltip text to show is fairly CPU intensive - and so I would like to only show it after the mouse has stopped for a short amount of time - say 1 second. I know I can use :- ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setInitialDelay() however ...
When you are designing an application (assumed in English), and you ask the user to provide a path to a directory/folder, do you use the term Directory or Folder? Is one more understood than the other? Is one more "correct" than the other? ...
In the place I work, very often it happens that a developer and QA session goes like this: (This is in reference to SQL Server 2005) QA: I get Invalid object name 'customers' DEV: huh? can u send me the exact SQL statement you used? QA: select * from customers DEV: hmm. (after some thinks) Are you sure you're using CUSTDB? QA: yes DEV: ...
I'm trying to create a custom extension of BasicSliderUI. I'm just trying to make the thumb a circle (note I'm in the Windows L&F). I've created a very simple implementation that just calls g.drawOval, but whenever I drag it, it leaves a "trail" behind. Any ideas why this is? thanks, Jeff ...
I'm a believer in observing what users are doing with an application. I think that it is the only way to get an accurate picture of what people are doing. However, I don't always want to be sitting with them and peering over their shoulder; apart from the time burden it is a distracting for them and may also change their behaviour. What...
Programmers usually don't pay much attention to user interfaces and focus more on functionalities but users first judge the product by its appearance so it is necessary to make nice user interface for web, desktop and mobile apps. Personally I don't like to spend much time for user interface design and sometimes try to look for some exa...
Ok, I know that Visual Studio ships with a few user interface icons but they are few and most of all, they are kinda outdated and don't fit well into Vista or Seven. I like pretty interfaces and I like interfaces where they fit and look part of the OS. One of the problems regarding this is the interface icons, I can't find good icons in...
I was reading Pro WPF in C# 2008 yesterday (in anonymous bookstore) and in chapter 2 they mention that XAML allows for the graphic design and the programmer to be completely independent. It got me wondering if most companies are moving toward having dedicated design specialists for implementing there UI’s? I know at our company we have...
I have never been a fan of the windows command line. I have tried tools like powercmd and liked them, but most are not distributed for free and I don't relish the thought of paying for something that I think I could write myself. I want to write my own command line wrapper similar to powercmd that allows for these properties: Custom fo...
Sometimes, game-like features in an application can make work fun. For example, Stack Overflow uses badges and points to coerce its users into doing work. What game-like features are transferable to applications? What kinds of applications are appropriate for game-like features? Why are game-like features uncommon in applications? ...
Hello everyone, I am developing some html pages which embed media player (Windows Media Player and Silverlight player, like sl12videoplayer from codeplex http://sl2videoplayer.codeplex.com/ ). I have learned how to embed players into html, by using DIV/OBJECT tags. I have proved it works technically. My question is, I want to find and ...
We've developed a security product which identifies certain types of unauthorized traffic on a network. The interface for displaying the messages is a Java Servlet generated page. At this point, the page is a glorified console log. There is a big text box with lines of text added as warnings and messages are generated. A couple of cool...
I'm digging around trying to find a good set of tools for creating console applications, as most of the settings I expect to be using Ruby in the coming months won't be webapps, but server-side scripts. I know of highline, and I do plan on using that for user and possible password prompts, but I know that the Console application world s...
I think I need some clarifications regarding WPFs Dispatcher.Invoke and Dispatcher.BeginInvoke usage. Suppose I have some long running 'work' code like such that is invoked on the press of a button in a simple WPF application: longWorkTextBox.Text = "Ready For Work!"; Action workAction = delegate { Console.WriteLine("Starting W...
For the last few years i have been working as a web developer. So my desktop development skills are a little rusty. I am aware of Adobe AIR, winforms, WFP and silverlight 3.0. I was wandering what other UI frameworks/technologies people are using to implement desktop applications. ...
Does anyone know where I can find well-designed User Interface Icons?? I'm looking for 16x16 for a toolbar that I'm Designing. I really enjoy the OS style, but I need some that will fit well for Vista?? Can anyone help?? ...
Hi EveryOne, I am looking for any tool or approach using which I can do UI unit test for iPhone application, I am aware of SenTestCase framework however which is used to do that testing for code I am looking for UI unit testing. Any suggestion will be great help to me. Thanks in advance. Regards, Satish. ...