Launching code on document ready is a pillar of jQuery. But sometimes, lengthy operations will be executed inside the ready event. For example, attaching multiple carousel instances to lengthy unordered lists will take some time. Question: How can I increase perceived responsiveness during the ready event? For example: Can I...
$('.openDialog').click(function(event){ var width=$(this).attr('width'); var height=$(this).attr('height'); alert(width + ' ' + height); event.preventDefault(); $("#dialog").dialog({autoOpen: false, modal: true}); $('#dialog').dialog('option', 'width', width); $('#dialog').dialog('open'); $('#dialo...
I have a nested sortable list: <ul class="testSortable"> <li class="ui-state-default" rel="1">What Can I Say? <ul class="testSortable" rel="1"> <li class="ui-state-default" rel="4">Total Divisions <ul class="testSortable" rel="4"></ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> I'm trying to mak...
I want my custom widgets to gain extra space when the dialog is resized. This was working when I only had a handful of widgets, but after adding several more columns of these same widgets and putting them in a QGridLayout, the extra space merely goes in as padding between the widgets. ...
I'm working on writing help pages for a web based application. What tools, resources, and/or best practices are there to write help pages that are geared towards individual pages of a rich web application with a lot of functionality? The help system will have a button on each screen that help is available for, when the user clicks on t...
Can anyone list custom iPhone UI Components? I know about the Three20 components which are UI and framework. Does anyone know of other similar libraries of UI components for the iPhone. To be even more specific I am looking for a horizontal slider that you can flick and it will continue sliding. Currently Apple has those big wheels (...
I am looking for character which could replace image icon, for example like ✘ (xmark) and ✔ (tick), maybe some symbol to "draft" or "new message"? EDIT: Fav: ❤ Draft: ✍ Message: ✉ ...
Hi there, I wonder, if there is a proper way to remove the default close button in the title bar and change it with other, to which I want to assign other function than Close. I manage to change the classes, but despite that, the close function seems to override to any in the titlebar. My current code for changing classes: var closeBu...
I am developing an application in C# using National Instruments Daqmx for performing measurements on certain hardware. My setup consists of several detectors from which I have to get data during a set period of time, all the while updating my UI with this data. public class APD : IDevice { // Some members and properties go here, ...
I have Read this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398142/graphical-user-interface-specification-template.. can you guide me more in this context? ...
What UI patterns do you usually use in JavaScript? By UI patterns I mean best practices to be used to build and organize UI, generated/managed from JavaScript (apart from libraries like jQuery or YUI). For example, if you came from .NET world you are familiar with MVC (Model-View-Controller) patterns family. In the world of WinForms a...
I start doing some things on multiple threads and I want to disable the UI while the new thread is working so that the user doesn't accidentally launch a duplicate. Is there a good way to do this? ...
I want to make a site that is both difficult to screen-scrap and accessible. Is that an oxymoron? ...
Is it possible to set a "nowrap" on a title of a display box? for example: set selectedSite to (choose from list MySites with prompt "Which site would you like to use:" with title AppTitle without multiple selections allowed) Since the sites listed in that box are rather small, the title of the box wraps, is there a way to prevent...
i am having array of horizontal manager which consist of editfield,dropdown,label and button,i place all these array of horizontalfield manager in one vertical manager to make a table like grid like strcture.I can make it but i want to do that if we get focus on horizontal manager then all components in the horizontal manager should give...
We're using jQuery UI Tabs at the top of the page (with no themes, using our own styles in the screen.css file) and using jQuery UI Datepicker later on down the page. We want to use a jQuery Theme for the Datepicker, but we want to use our own styles for the Tabs. But as soon as we include the Themes, it (obviously) styles both complete...
I always have trouble designing the user interface when it come to manage a list of object. For example, I need to manage a list of employees. At my work, we always switched between two method of managing the employees: Use a single split screen with the left part being the list of employee, and the right part being the place where yo...
I have one label field and three buttons with the name of red, yellow, blue. If I click the red button then the label field font color should be change to red; similarly if I click the yellow button then the font color should change to yellow; likewise according to the button color the color of font should change in the label field. Can...
I wasn't even sure how to phrase this so you'll have to forgive me if this is a duplicate. I have a form question, it can have be answered with one or more entities The entity is made up of four numbers, currently 4 textboxes side by side. The two approaches I've come up with are At the start you have a blank textboxes to enter the 4...
I currently have an advanced search page that searches a number of fields in my database. It has several textboxes that all search different fields, the user has the option to leave textboxes blank and they will be ignored from the search. The problem is I now want to add to this to also search some of my BIT fields, my original idea wa...