user-interface

What do you do to construct a software's user interface ?

When you get an assignment to create software for your department, what do you do to create a really good user interface? ...

Android: Which is a better design choice? Lazy Loading or Initial Waiting Time?

I have been an avid fan of lazy loading but yesterday I was talking with a fellow programmer who showed me another application and expressed how happy he was about the initial waiting time that the application takes (Android Marketplace to be precise) to load up the list and allow him to scroll smoothly than implement lazy loading and ma...

UI Checker JavaScript / CSS tool

Hi! I have a task (for instance): create an HTML&CSS according to the given Jpg file. Basically, what i want, is a simple JavaScript lib (or whatever else it might be) which will allow me to see the transparent gif of the original file (50% opacity) and my actual page, so that i could fit all my classes pixel-to-pixel according to Jpeg...

Can I stop applications from grabbing focus in OS X?

Applications stealing focus is on of my biggest UI pet peeves. There's rarely a good reason for an application that I'm not using to interrupt what I'm doing. Is there a way to disable focus-grabbing globally in OS X? ...

Windows Mobile: Is there any library to build attractive interfaces?

Hello! I'm looking for libraries to build attractive interfaces. Someone told me about Fluid (http://fluid.codeplex.com/) but it's very difficult to use. Anyone knows others? My project is for Compact Framework 2.0 SP2, C#, and it's going to use in Windows Mobile 5.0 and above. Thank you! ...

object doesn't support this action in IE6 with jQuery

For some reason the following line of javascript is giving me an error object doesn't support this action in IE6: item = ui.item.get(0); Any ideas? I'm completely lost. ...

jquery-ui-tabs. passing a querystring

Hi all. How could I pass a query string (?id=avalue) with each of the below links associated to the below tabs. I am attempting to open external content within the tabs (that it's working fine) but I have failed to pass a parameter with the urls. The value for the parameter would be the same for each link. My functioning code: <scri...

Selenium Test Commandline

How do i post the results to a URL via the "selenium-server.jar" java -jar selenium-server.jar -htmlSuite "*firefox" "https://www.myserver.com/rc/" "/selenium/Tests/TestSuite2.html" "http://myserver.com/readSeleniumResults" chrome://src/content/TestRunner.html?auto=true&multiWindow=true&defaultLogLevel=info&baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.my...

Populating a subform with different displays as a GUI in Access 2007

This is my first time building a UI in Access (using Access 2007), and I'm wondering what is the Right Way (TM) of going about this. Essentially, I have several different queries that I'd like to display as pivot charts, pivot tables, tables, and reports. Eventually I'm also going to have to build forms to manipulate the data as well,...

What is the cleverest UI feature you have seen in a website?

What is the cleverest UI feature you have seen in a website? Something that: Made the user experience more intuitive Added significantly to the usefulness of the app. Added to the 'wow factor' of the application or... anything else you consider important ;) Could be also something standard, but particularly well implemented. Please...

I need a UI-Editor for my custom Direct-x UI

I have developed a custom DirectX UI library equipped with everything from buttons to a gridview. I need a screen-layout editor of some sort. It just takes too long to do it by hand, whether through a config file or hard-coding. I could spend a month or two developing a DirectX editing utility, but I don't have a month or two to spen...

Is it better to store telephone numbers in some canonical format or "as entered"?

Storing a telehone number in some kind of canonical format has several advantages from a programmers point of view, but it might confuse the user, if suddenly his entered numbers look a lot different. What's the way to go? ...

jquery datepicker 2 - how to pass in a list of event dates

i see there is a new version of the jquery datepicker http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/ i dont see anywhere, that you can pass in a list of dates to have then highlighted (i am building a calendar tracking tool). so i might want to show holidays in blue or a certain list of dates in green. I am trying to use...

Star Rating widget for jQuery UI

I was introduced to the Star Rating widget for jQuery UI: http://orkans-tmp.22web.net/star_rating/ I was originally using this one: http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating/ Is there any difference between using the two? Well trying to use the jquery UI one, I can't get the input buttons to show up as stars. I have these js and css ...

What is the best way to layout/design a long complex web form to collect user input.

I need to design a web form which landlords can use to add rental listings. There are 8 mandatory text boxes and 2 optional text boxes, 11 drop-down lists, 12 checkboxes and one large text area. Any suggestions about how to arrange them in a way that is clean, and uncluttered? My concern is, if the form looks lengthy, they may not want t...

What are UI Patterns?

What is the difference between User Interaction Design Patterns and User Interface Design Patterns. I have heard that one is the subset of the other, but how do thy correlate? What is the correct term for ui patterns e.g., from http://uipatternfactory.com/? ...

Developing functionality or visual aspects of an interface - which to develop first?

I am currently refining my design process for developing websites, scripts, and web-based applications. My background is heavily weighted towards developing websites with minor javascript/php/flash websites and will likely remain my sole focus. I typically work alone so I try to keep focused on developing one step at a time. At the mo...

Is there a way to force open a new browser window from MOzilla to IE by Onclick function?

Hi all, Iam getting new window pop up by using window.open(), but need When i click button in Mozilla browser, a new pop window should open in Internet Explorer, Is it possible...... ...

ui tabs + validation

I am using UI tabs and i want to validate each tab. When a click the second tab i must validate the first tab.If tab is valid go to second tab, if tab is not valid stay to the current tab and fiil in missing form elements.And so on for all my tabs. I use $('#tabs').bind('tabsselect', function(event, ui) but the tab change even if its n...

What is the best Struts2 compliant LGPL Javascript UI components library out there?

Hi community. We currently have an application built with Struts 1.2. We are currently migrating it to Struts2 and are looking for a nice LGPL library of UI web components that will still exists within the next couple of years : The cream of the cream would have been ExtJS, but the GPL license (and its subtle move from LGPL to GPL) is...