user-interface

how to create horizontal spinner+timer like this?

is it possible to create a design something like this? any help regarding this would be very helpful for me.the functionality i want is to rotate the wheel left-to-right or right to left for selecting time...yellow is selection color and red is shows the remaining time when countdown is running ...

Jquery: how to make something fade out when mouse is idle. When mouse moves again, It fadesIn!

I have a div called "#top". I would like it to fade out when the mouse is idle for 3 seconds. When the mouse moves again, make it appear (fade, of course) Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks a lot. ...

Menu Button in web Page

I am looking for a solution to display to a menu button in a Web page, preferably using client side code (example a jQuery plugin etc). The only requirement is that it should blend well with the default buttons look and feel. An Example of a menu button i can give is that of the Labels or Actions button in GMail I have already looked in...

Should you show a grid if its empty?

Were in the process of developing a new desktop application for a customer which currently uses about 20 or so grids on various forms throughout the application. I don't think the context of our application is that relevant, but just to give the full picture the customer sells vehicles and the content of the grid tends to be things like...

Re-learning CSS the right way

I am a programmer doing web development for over two years now. Even though I’ve been doing front end engineering for the past two years I don’t think I have done it the right way For instance: I still do layout with tables and not with just CSS. I haven’t still found out a way to correctly present data aligned and tabular. I don’t k...

iPhone Dev: Get more data functionality in twitter iPhone clients?

I'm building an app (not necessarily a twitter client) and I'm trying to figure out how developers create the buttons above and below a table view where a user presses them to either reload newer data or reload older data into a table view. Does anyone know of any tutorials out there that does this or know of an easy way? ...

UI for capturing a timespan or duration

What's a good web-based UI for capturing a time duration from the user. Lets say that we want to capture a time duration in minutes. But would like to present it such that the user can enter in hours and\or minutes. Just use 2 textboxes for hrs\min? Or a single textbox and let them type in "1hr 31min" or "91 min" ? Or is there somethin...

Grid with an image, textblock, and rectangle, inside a listbox not showing up exactly right

So I have this Xaml inside a ListBox Item Template: <ListBox.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <Grid Height="22" Width="Auto"> <Image Margin="-2,0,0,0" Source="{Binding Path=ADsPath, Converter={StaticResource ImxConverter}}" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="22" /> <TextBlock Margin="20,3,0,0" Text="{Bind...

wpf / silverlight textbox filter design

I have a list that the user can filter in several ways. two of which lend themselves to combo boxes and two that need to accept user input. For example, one textbox allows the user to type in any part of a list item's description, and the dialog will only present items whose description contains the text entered. It is a dialog 'picker'...

Can't get `Spinner` option to work (jQuery UI tabs)

According to http://jqueryui.com/demos/tabs, tabs that load content via AJAX will show "Loading..." while the content loads. If you want to customize this message, you can (supposedly) set the spinner option: $("#tabs").tabs({ spinner: "Just a sec..."}); However, I'm having these problems: Setting the spinner option doesn't seem to ...

GWT UI testing tool

Hello, Can anybody suggest a good tool to test GWT UI. What is the opinion about using Selenium & Webdriver ? Any pointers and suggestions are welcome. Thanks, SD ...

What's the best size for toolbar icons?

Windows *.ico files and Mac *.icns files contain multiple size icons. A lot of the icons you can buy also come in various sizes. But, as far as I'm aware, most implementations of toolbars set the size that's displayed. Are there any guidelines as to the best size to use on different platforms? ...

UX - searching null values in a filtered grid

I have a custom filtered grid where first row for each column is used by end users to search for a particular value in a column. (each row has a text box where user's can enter the value they need to search for) Initially - when the grid is loaded on the page, text box in row 1 for each column is empty and data is displayed in the gri...

Is there any good user interface add-on for WinDbg for not to use command line debugging?

I have to use WinDbg but I do not like gebug.exe command-line style. Is there any plugin or anything else which makes it look and feel like 21st century debugger? ...

User Interface clarifications

Hi all! As you know, many programs are written in C++. Some of these have fancy GUI with non-classical-Windows style ( think to Photoshop, 3ds max, maya etc )..now my question is: how are they done? In pure Win32 API? MFC? DirectX/OpenGL? or other? I can reach similar results with C#/WPF but how can I do it in C++? Thank you in advance ...

How do I keep a form from going blank while my program working with out using a background worker?

On a regular basis I find myself writing little utility programs that use some loop which takes a while to process. Yet while the loop is going the form no longer refreshes so if you were to move the form, or move another window over it and off, the form would be blank until the loop finishes. Now I know the correct way to deal with thi...

Metaprogramming a wizard and database rules

Our software has a few places where it uses wizards to collect information from users then generates a bunch of database entries based on what users enter into those wizards. Currently these wizards and the rules for generating database entries from the wizards are handled by many kLOC of unmaintainable C++ code. In the spirit of The P...

Tool for Webpage UI design

Which is the best recommended tool for webpage UI design including Javascript/jQuery? ...

Separate UI thread for details view using WinForms

Our app's master/details view uses a datagridview as the master, and a custom control as the details view. The details view takes a long time to compute and render, making cursoring up/down the master view painfully slow. Therefore, we'd like the details view to run asynchronously (in a separate UI thread) with change notifications from...

jQuery UI Datepicker go to date URL

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the jQuery UI Datepicker, and when clicking on a date, set the document.location to that date, appended to a preset URL? So, if I clicked on one of the dates, it might direct me to: http://www.mysite.com?date=2009-10-25 I need to just use this as a quick way to quickly navigate my website cale...