I need to visualise a directed graph that represents the flow of data in a web application. Can anyone recommend any JavaScript or Flash solutions for this please. It must support hooking a node click event because I need to fire off an AJAX call when this happens. Can be free or commercial. The server-side technology is Java if this mak...
People seem to avoid building user interfaces that pull their information (names, field types, etc. as well as relationships) from a database; they instead hard-code forms (and tables, etc.) that have pretty much the same data names and types and things. Am I making sense? For instance, imagine an emumerated field in MySQL: why not jus...
I need ideas on assigning categories to a listing. The categories will be something similar to what Ebay does. Amazon and the other sites have similar categories for listings. I have a lot of categories and Sub-Categories upto 4 levels deep, like Home & Garden > Kitchen > Small Appliances > Coffee Machines Computing > Networking > Ser...
Hi, I need help in attaching a date picker in my existing HTML markup. The booking form was provided by my Affiliate, Now I need their forms to be customize a little bit. I need to change their the current date picker with the JQuery datepicker, I hate their date picker because it calls another window and It's kinda ugly. (Sorry I can'...
There are many more technologies and tools available to build the front end for an application. Which is the best technology/tool/platform available using which I can build a better GUI, by which I'll be able to build a nice looking as well as an efficient GUI? Definition of "better" includes factors such as efficiency,user friendlines...
Hi all, I've got an application which is sold as a SAAS to multiple customers. Predictably, sometimes customers want to customise some areas of the application by adding their own fields, specifically the area relating to Action/Project tracking. We allow a small amount of this currently. It is handled by storing the names of additional...
Hi, I have got another mysterious issue. So, I am setting a background image for LinearLayout. This image contains gradient. Don't know why, but after I launch application the image appears to consist of several parts that actually form "smooth transition" of gradient, and that's why it seems that background image is not a gradient. Co...
Another random question that hit me (I've drank ~9 cups of coffee in the last 5 hours, so sorry...) -- What kind of progress bar would you show a user for a taks that you do don't know how long it would take, but you have a good idea of an "average" time. For example, a task that would usually take around 30 seconds, but you have no way ...
Has anyone done any research on user acceptance of the following voting systems for different target audiences? Or I'm not interested which is more accurate or how the votes will be used for ranking. What I'm interested is from a user perspective, which is more intuitive - based on the demographic of that user. Obviously, as deve...
Hi, My app has main desktop and many forms... like CRM. Every form is opened in a different tab(browser window) independent from the app. The forms contains a lot of DOM and jQuery events. One thing to note about is that the forms often need to open some child forms. I want to get some control over the opened forms/tabs. So in case w...
Is there a way to use MaskedTextBox without displaying the PromptChar? I would like to specify a mask to validate input against, but I don't want any prompt characters to take up space during edit mode. The reason for this is when I want to accept free text with a limited character set, all characters are optional alphanumerics. The pr...
Hello folks, I've found many answers, here or inside MS' UI guidelines, regarding button positioning, but none about how to position (in which order) buttons when you have three actions to do, New, Edit and Delete. I have a simple UI, in the upper part I placed a grid listing some data. Beneath, these three buttons. Following what I see ...
I would like to continue to hone my technical (programming/design/etc) skills while contributing back to the community. I have done quite a bit of work in UI development and feel most comfortable there (I have written a library that is used internally at my company that provides a solid UI with advanced features available out of the box...
I have a Listbox, that has a Checkbox as part of the item template. In the click even of the Checkbox, I want to make sure that same list item is selected. ListBoxItem lbi = ((ListBoxItem)listLayers. ContainerFromElement((CheckBox)sender)); lbi.IsSelected = true; The main issue that I'm having is that "Containe...
I have a collection view that I've subclassed that allows me to reorder the collection view items via drag and drop. My drag code that sets up the pasterboard is currently in mouseDragged: - (void)mouseDragged:(NSEvent *)aEvent { if(!dragInProgress) { dragInProgress = YES; NSPasteboard *pboard = [NSPasteboard pasteboard...
I have a few that I think are correct. These are background colours for messages. ERROR: red; INFO: blue; SUCCESS: green; NOT IMPORTANT INFO: yellow Have I got the blue and yellow around the wrong way? Any hex values that are a de facto standard for these? I am curious considering web development, but I think the answers will be agn...
I am looking for some best practices on how to handle the following scenario - flowing permissions from WCF service layer through to UI: I have WCF services with methods that have been decorated with the PrincipalPermission attribute. I would like a means to allow a client to check if they have the required permissions before invoking t...
I got a bunch of data in a database. The goal is to present them to a user in a readable way, and since they're stock-data, there needs to be a graph there. Now it brings one question: which approach would be better, to create a graph on a server side dynamically or let the server just push raw data, allowing the client to generate grap...
I am a dotnet newbie. After years of procedural coding, my company is moving on to the HOTTEST new trend i.e WINDOWS FORMS :) Our Application is TabbedMDI. Basically we have a menu on the left and clicking an entry opens a new tab for CRUD. I have seen some MVP samples that have a couple of textboxes and it demonstrates moving the code...
I noticed StackOverflow appears to be targeting screen resolution widths of 1024px or more. I also checked Amazon, NBC, MSN, & AOL which target more lay users, and they all appear to be targeting the same width. Is 1024px the current recommended width for web apps targeting the largest cross-section of users who use default monitor res...