I have been recently digging into Mobile Programming, I practically tried out the J2ME polish GUI framework, Although the GUI made with Polish looked pretty decent, I realized that The User Interface was not what I was looking. I started scourging the web most of all Stack Overflow and formulated certain rules : Java ME is ubiquito...
Is there a way to create one of the black glossy popups, similar to the one that appears to copy and paste text. I just want to give some information, so the behaviour I want is closer to the way the keyboard popup works when you type a letter but the appearance I want is the copy/paste dialogue. Are either of these open to the public, ...
Hello, which of the following styles do you prefer? An application which to perform tasks opens new forms An application which keeps the various "forms" in different tabs An application which is based on a PageControl and shows you the right tab depending on what you want to do. Something else Also do you have any good links for gui ...
A lot of JavaScript libraries have user interface widgets. Usually they are created after the page is loaded. The user sees a page re-flow and parts of the page shift around or change appearance. How can I reduce the amount of reflowing that occurs when a page loads, especially if I’m using several widgets? Here’s some examples. These...
Hi, I have this application where the users can change text files and when they forget to save them, a little message pops up reminding them that the changes are not saved and asks them if they want to save the changes or not with two buttons "Yes" and "No". It also has a little checkbox that says "Disable this warning". And as the same...
Hello, I would like to create a drawable in XML that should include: image drawable color drawable The color drawable provides white transparent color. So, as a result we would have image with some white transparent layer on top. I have tried to use LayerDrawable, but it fails to be created during application launch: <LayerDrawabl...
Honestly I can't think of the last time I ever actually used a 'forward' button on either a web browser, or in Windows. We all use the back button, but most users I observe including myself, simply click an item rather than using the forward button. So the simple question stands, is a forward button actually a necessity to any applicati...
Hi, I am trying to set padding in shape declared in XML file. But whatever I set, nothing changes related to padding. If I modify any other properties, I see updated UI. But it doesn't work with padding. Could you please advice possible reasons for this? I will provide below example of my shape.xml: <shape xmlns:android="http://schem...
I want to build a desktop application - a map viewer , something like this : http://sunsite.ubc.ca/UBCMap/ in Java . Whenever someone hovers the mouse over a building on the map , there should be a balloon tool-tip saying something about that building on the map like its office phone number etc and that building should glow in the 2-d ma...
I would like to focus on programming for mobile devices such as iPhone, Palm Pre and last Nokia series. I'm interested in usability, user interface design, memory management, application design... every single part of it. What books do you recommend for this topic? What are the must have books for mobile device programming? ...
Why would I spend so much time on sketching my user interface on paper before designing it in Interface Builder/Visual Studio/Dreamweaver/wxWidgets/etc... ? Can anyone explain me why we should do this? Do you do this? Thanks in advance. ...
My web applications have pages that display many static fields. I know that poor layout invariably leads to information overload and poor readability. My Question: Are there any best-practices or heuristics for laying out a screen that contains many static fields? Ordinarily, I would reference Bill Scott and Theresa Neil's excell...
Before you throw me out into the cold with your bold assertions that this is not programming related, please hear me out. I'm looking for a visual metaphor (Icon) to suggest the idea of inversion of a filter. So if a user has a filter which reduces a list of 10 items to 4, I want a button that will allow the user to invert the filter t...
How should I develop a form that can resize nicely? While that sounds like a simple question the problem I'm struggling with is the fact I'm reproducing an existing application I made in Swing several years back. Its built around a single form that hides/reveals panels as you select different options. Its around 600 x 700 pixels wide ...
Ok heres my deal, I have a marquee like this: <marquee style=";position:absolute;left:608;top:10; font-family:Arial;font-size:24pt; color:#FFFFFF;height:153; "scrollamount="4" direction="down"> <a href="http://www.google.com">google</a></marquee> Now for some reason this link is unclickable! It looks like a link but it ...
I'm dragging and dropping divs between outer container divs and need to get the id of the outer div that the drag started in. I'm doing this by saving $(this.parentNode).attr('id') on the drag start event. The first time I drag something this gives the expected div id but on subsequent drags of the same div this id is not correct. Any...
I need to expose some input fields based on what properties I find for particular types in an assembly. I'm not sure how common an approach like that is. Perhaps there are easier ways. Maybe on the client side instead of server. If anyone knows of a good way of doing something like this, I would appreciate the help. Create input contr...
I've been spending a lot of time utilizing Mercurial. On windows, I've been using TortoiseHg and on Linux and Mac OS X, I've been (forced) to use the console interface. After spending time with the console utilities, I find (to my surprise) that I do like them. But, most of my usage has been superficial. I've been doing basic clones,...
I was wondering how well these web test frameworks (Watin and Selenium) work for silverlight UI testing. Have anyone tried it on a project?, are Watin or Selenium well suited for silverlight?. Thanks, ...
At work we're discussing upgrading our view layer for our web application. We're currently running an old and "modified" version of FreeMarker Classic, which is a pain to work with. One of our developers suggested using a Component UI style architecture similar to desktop style environments. Essentially, this would mean that you would b...