I am putting together some mock-ups of my first real interface and I am left wondering: What are some basic tenets of good user interface design? I am looking for something like a bullet list summary and maybe some resources that might be useful for each tenet. ...
I'm calling and getting results back from an async web service call that provides an array of objects to display in a grid on a hand-held windows mobile. At one point I had the UI updating properly using InvokedRequired and Invoke. Now the first time I run the emulator and Visual Studio 2008 it will work but subsequent calls seem to ha...
I am working on a WPF app and the UI is getting a bit complex to manage. I am looking for advice on how to maintain it as it grows. The layout looks something like this <Grid> <List of Objects View/> <Objects Relationship View/> <Object Details View /> <Multiple Objects Details View/> <View 5 /> <View 6 /> : ...
Looking for a tool to UI testing of a Windows (.NET WinForms) application. The idea is that the analysts will record the tests via some UI and it will be able to be played back over and over again. Commercial tools are fine but bonus points for free ones. ...
In my company we have in mind a redesign of the user interface of an application and we would like to make it ... let say "fancy". We have in mind a simple story board but I doubt between WPF, XNA or DirectX. I prefer WPF so I'd need to know if it support the following capabilities and how difficult to implement are they: Transparency:...
What does one do when the number of buttons in an application grows beyond the comfort zone of toolbar UIs? I'm currently approaching the 1000 button mark and there's no sign of slowing down. My current tabbed toolbar UI is being stretched far beyond the comfort zone now. I added a dynamic toolbar (pops-up on double click) where you typ...
Any documents or articles that contain design guidelines for creating mobile phone applications? How applications should be built for ideal user experiences. User Interface & Keypad Graphics Languages Links from specific manufacturers are also welcome. ...
I am building a Silverlight application where one of the tasks will involve the user selecting one item from a list of approximately 1300 items. What would be some of the best ways to present this list to the user? I think 1300 items in a ComboBox is too many. Is it? What are the best practices for this kind of situation? The items are i...
We are planning to use SOAP UI Pro to test our Services (developed in c#.net) I am getting an error in the service and would like to debug the service call. I am not able to attach a breakpoint. Does anyone have tried to debug SOAP UI test tool call? ...
Hi all, I am using jQuery UI tabs (v1.7x) on the home page of a site I'm working on at the moment, and they are set up as follows: jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $("#mastheadhome").tabs({ selected:4, fx: {opacity: 'toggle'} }); }); It's all working great when the page loads, and the tab I want to be displayed by default is dis...
This is a UI question, dealing with HTML and javascript, to see how to get the functionality I want without confusing the user I have a table below that has a select box as the first cell in my table. This application has no submit button. You change the select box, the database is updated, you change something in an input box the da...
In MFC, dialog boxes were designed using DLUs. In WPF, we specify in 1/96inch units. While this would indeed scale windows and visual elements, how do we make make WPF "respect" the current font settings of the user? Should we specify a certain font to be used and stick to that font? How would one go about layout-ing a "well behaved app...
Hi guys , i found the following bug when using jquery ui tabs , when i selected the event as mouse hover and added animation to it $("#Tab").tabs({ "event":"mouseover",fx:{ opacity: 'toggle' , duration:'slow'}}); when i move the mouse over the tabs quickly , two tab contents remain open at the same time . this is the bug confirmed ,...
When a user is viewing a paged table and requests it to sorted by a particular column, what page is shown? Is there a standard expected behavior for this scenario? I can imagine several possible outcomes, but want to know if there is a standard. ...
When posting a link to your facebook profile, users are presented with the option to choose a thumbnail to represent the link, as seen in the following example: http://www.everyday.com.my/photo/2009/4/Add-Sushi-King-into-my-Facebook-profile.jpg (New users aren't allowed to embed images) The thumbnails presented to the user are the diff...
hi guys I am developing an app which has a text field box. so when i am entering text, it should search the database and give me suggestions just like google search. like if i have entered letter 'a', it should have a box like thing below text field with all names starting with letter 'a'. then if i have entered letter 'b', it should re...
Hey there Stackoverflow, I got a doubt regarding pre-selecting(setSelectedIndex(index)) an item in a ListBox, Im using Spring + GWT. I got a dialog that contains a painel, this panel has a flexpanel, in which I've put a couple ListBox, this are filled up with data from my database. But this painel is for updates of an entity in my dat...
Hi, I need help adding the jquery date picker to my existing code, but not reconstructing the whole HTML file. my code, <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Con...
I really like the interface of ESET NOD32 antivirus program and I would like to know with what is this done and what components are used? http://coolmaliya-gifts.comli.com/images/nod32-3-1.jpg ...
The application that I'm working on is going to be used to create charts of data contained in a database. Right now objects on the chart are manipulated using a "control panel" - essentially a list of objects and a PropertyGrid to edit values. The users would also like to be able to interact with the objects using mouse interactions - th...