For my UI, I need a month selector (i.e. not a day but "what happened in August 2008"). Has anyone seen such an UI element? Obviously, I'm looking for more than two combo boxes (one for the months and one for the year). What I want to know if someone has encountered a cool month selector. :) ...
What is the conventional wisdom around entering times into a web app? I've seen both free form fields, and drop downs. I have a user right now arguing that drop downs are easier to use, despite the fact that you have 18 options between 3 drop downs. I feel that using a text field (and PHP strtotime()) that I can eliminate all of that ha...
hi- i'm working on designing an asp.net mvc web app. There will be half a dozen (maybe more to come) different user groups of the app and they all work with similar but tweaked UIs, each with a few custom fields but all using the same objects. one idea for creating the UI is to store Control info with each field value in the database...
I'm looking for is a good on-screen POD reading experience. For years, I've used perldoc or man running in an xterm to read Perl documentation on screen, and a small custom program built around Pod::LaTeX to print it. The printed version is good: the script does a nice job. However, on-screen reading is painful: You can search, but go...
Is there a way for an application to use the native iPod application (and put its own buttons and stuff on it)? How is that done? Or is it the case that Pandora, for example, has just coded up their interface to look almost exactly like the iPod application? In which case they would have had to, for example, re-create the volumen cont...
i have a DataGridView in vb.net that's bound to a SQL server table. The table is being updated by another program. i use a timer that fills the table adapter and merge that data into the existing dataset, but this action has a bunch of UI repercussions. How can i make sure this update affects the user as little as possible? Mostly i'm...
What javascript effect/ui libraries are the best that also have Rails helpers and all that? Which ones do you use. Seems like people use jQuery with either scriptaculous or yui for the interface elements... Is there anything that's particularly easy or best that's supported in a Rails gem or something similar that you recommend? ...
Hi people, I deal with a lot of lists of data in many scenarios CRM's, CMS's etc etc However i now require the need to have a UI in the administration area in order to arrange the display order on the navigation menu for example on the front facing website. I already have a column in my sql database [Order] as an int. I am building in...
Hello everybody! I am currently writing a little game with standard UI controls. It is working great so far but what I don't like is that I am managing the controls in the codebehind file. (C#) As I am trying to decouple all elements, I would like to have a separate engine / controller which handles all the data management and the log...
I am tryng to use this: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-form I have: <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#dialog").dialog(); $("#dialog").dialog('close'); $('.myPop').click(function() { $("#dialog").dialog('open'); }); }); Which allows me to pop-up o...
The GetClientRect function, according to MSDN, is actaully only good for determining the client width & height, since left & top are always zero. Is there a way to get the complete client coordinates, including left & top (either in screen space, or in window space)? ...
I am writing a document in which I am proposing that our web application have both wizard-style user interfaces, and normal user interfaces. To my mind, a normal interface in one in which you can browse a list of domain objects, and then view or operate on them as you please. This style of interface is good for creative, non-directed, ...
How closely does your data model map to your UI and domain model? The data model can be quite close to the domain model if it has, for example, a Customer table, an Employee table etc. The UI might not reflect the data model so closely though - for example, there may be multiple forms, all feeding in bits-and-pieces of Customer data al...
Essentially the warning in our case is just a validation, we don't want to mark it as an error just a warning so the user knows. I was hoping to use the same or similar method used for validation. Currently I'm leaning towards implementing IDataErrorInfo. But I'd like to change the style on display and allow saving. Has anyone done a...
I've noticed recently that it seems to be a trend in Windows applications to no longer include the menu bar in an application (the "File Edit ..." menu), instead having the functionality linked to icons seemingly randomly spread around the application window. for example: IE8, Windows 7 media player. Is there any usability evidence dri...
Hi folks, I have got an issue with our beloved browser IE (all versions) and the tab ui control from jquery. I load my content for the tabs with the ajax option. Problem now is that i have to do that synchronously so each request after another cause async. doesnt works for me or just very buggy. But this is not the problem. The issue i...
Usually, when a user holds the mouse pressed over a button, moves the mouse away from the window, and then releases it, the button can tell that the mouse has been released even though the release has actually occured outside the window. When I inspect mouse clicks in my window, how can I imitate the same behavior? When a mouse button ...
What is an ideal size for a .ico file, that would sit in the top corner of a window? ...
I need to register a window class, and right after that set some data in it's extra memory section (the one cbClsExtra refers to) before any window of the class is being created. The problem is that SetClassLong expects a HWND in order to identify the class, instead of the class's name or atom. What's the way to acheive this? ...
I am trying to create a custom slider with two handles using jQuery UI. The problem is that the right handle is moving out of the container. I know the problem, the reason being the fact that the handles are positioned using the left CSS property and since the width of the handles is more than one pixel, the right handle moves out of th...