Scenario: You need to expose the same app on different screens - let's say a standard 15''-17'' a portable 10'' and a mobile 4'', possibly working on different resolutions. Question: Do you attempt to go for a liquid layout that gets rearranged depending on the real estate available or do you roll N (one for each range) separate UI laye...
Hi, the company I work for has a web-based user interface which paying clients log in to to get access to data and control mechanisms. We're planning to launch a completely new version of this interface, and one option we're considering is whether to build it in Flash. The argument for using Flash is that it would enable us to build a...
Dofactory has a 3.5 framework for developing software and includes some design patterns which are explained in a document. There's a sample app built using the framework which has user interfaces for WinForm, WPF, ASP.NET (WebForms), ASP.NET MVC, plus DAL's using Linq & ADO.NET which makes it a candidate for a learning tool and a framewo...
Are there any tools for UI screen design for mobile devices or Is most of the design done in a generic Image/DTP editing/creating software like MS Windows Paint or the likes? I found a few tools for creating sprite image filmstrips, like MotionWelder, However I haven't found any tools for UI screen design and am generally working in a...
I'm a single shareware developer and many times i make the mistake of adding too many features into my application. For example different ways to filter and display informations. One of the reasons is that during programming i often see some ways that might be easy to implement and may give some benefit for the user. But often they tur...
I have the following "tree" of objects: JPanel JScrollPane JPanel JPanel JScrollPane JTextPane When using the mouse wheel to scroll over the outer JScrollPane I encounter one annoying problem. As soon as the mouse cursor touches the inner JScrollPane, it seems that the scroll...
I have an application that works on the concept of 'workspaces' that will eventually be ported to Cocoa. In the current Windows incarnation the each workspace is an MDI window which can contains sub windows. These sub windows need to be easily separated, visually, from sub windows in other workspaces since workspace state is saved (not ...
Trying to find an example that has css rollover using sprites & sliding door techniques combined. I am not css literate, so a complete example or link to a complete example would be appreciated. All I am trying to do is to have <a href> buttons that are not fixed width with a nice rollover effect and the possibility to add an icon (sim...
I'd like to put a calendar on a webpage showing which days a house is availiable to rent. I know that the jquery datepicker has this functionality. However, I can't get it to display correctly I've tried the jquery date picker, but it seems that I'm missing a stylesheet, as all the headings collapse together. Anyone know where I can fin...
I am sure all of you have observed the cohesive design of this site. My question is about some of the cool info-boxes...that appear on various events. Like when someone with lower reputation tries to down-vote OR the long box that appears just below the browser address bar when I have got response to one of my questions. These are basic...
Hi Experts, I am creating a web application which has a few management screens, where a user can go to edit records (for example, changing the contact details of a user). Access to these managements screens are controlled by roles, with multiple users possibly having access. The problem now arises of what to do if two users simultaneous...
Hello. As shown in the screenshot below, i have a UITableView with some info and upon selecting a row an ABUnknownPersonViewController is invoked. In order to be able to able to dismiss that and go back to the UITableView I have this code: ABUnknownPersonViewController *unknownPersonView = [[[ABUnknownPersonViewController alloc] init] a...
I have a user interface that makes use of scriptaculous draggables and droppables, and it works quite well, except that in IE6 performance of draggables is horrible when you have too many. I am thinking a potential way to resolve this is to have some javascript that ononmouseover or onmousedown will make the element draggable, but onmou...
Hi all, I've been trying to build this small java app. I find it very difficult to design UI in java, tasks that seem very simple become complicated and all these strange misbehaviors occur. In my app I've created a JLayeredPane which contains two layers. One on top on the other, They both contain scrollbars. Here's an explanation of t...
Hi, I need some advice on implementing UIs in WPF. So far, I've been using Code-Behinds, which is extremely easy to get-started, but hell when maintaining/changing/testing. I've looked at MVP (and its WPF variant - MVVM), but having some trouble getting started. Assuming I have a UI to build, here's what I think I should do: 1. Crea...
Hi I'm new to jquery and I'm not a programer either. I've tried searching for the answer on google but I just couldn't find the answer. Here is my quetion, i have a list of items to sort only after I click the button "sort". And the list of items should not be able to be sorted atfer I click the the button "confirm". My script just does...
My boss believes that wizards make things simple for the user. I think they have their place but I can't really define what that place is. I feel there is a danger in turning something into steps that doesn't need them. Does anyone know where I could find rules for such things, or even a guideline to follow that describes when and when ...
Hello, here is my html <div id="entry"> week <span></span> <p>DKK</p> <input type="radio" name="red<% Response.Write(counter); %>" id="radio2" value="75" /> </div> I have bunch of these div entry generated by while loop so I want to achieve this : WHEN input inside entry is clicked I want background image of entry div to change, but i...
Are there any more extensive tutorials / documentations on the tabs widget? http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs doesn't seem to cover or explain advanced features. I'm at a loss for how to dynamically add and remove tabs, for instance. Should I be studying some more background to the jquery UI? ...
How can I programmatically (in C#) determine, if ANOTHER foreign application (native, java, .NET or whatever...) is currently demanding user input? Can this be done fully in Managed code? What I'm looking for is the implementation of: static Boolean IsWaitingForUserInput(String processName) { ??? } By demanding user input I mean ...