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I am struggling with what the better practices or recommended ui design patterns are for making selections from a list of data, more specifically, key/value data. My questions are: When should I use a drop down? When should you employ a list of radio buttons verses a drop down? When should I use a list box? If you do allow for m...
I need a simple Layout Manager that is UI agnostic. By this, I mean it should not specify how I want to represent my shapes/controls on the screen. It should just enable me to say: I want shape X here. I want shape Y under shape X. I want shape Z to surround X, and isolate itself from shape Y. I guess it would be nice if it can also gi...
In my particular situation, I have a comment form than cannot be used until the user has logged in and joined a specific topic. Then, they can comment on that topic. In your opinion, should I hide the comment form completely, or disable it and prompt the user to complete the necessary requirements. ...
Hi, I need (i.e. a customer requirement) to provide a custom keyboard for the user to type text into both text fields and areas. I already have something that does the keyboard and appends test to a text field, however I'd like to make it more generic and have it act like the standard iphone keyboard, i.e. appear when teh user selects ...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of any good online resources/tutorials for creating views and controllers programatically rather than via the interface builder. Everything I have looked at uses the interface builder and the created nibs, while the IB is ok I would like to have the option of developing these manually (both for practi...
May be some body already used some open source component, writing on jquery. And I want to place this menu on right panel of my site. Thanks to advance ...
In Windows XP the Win32 API renders the controls using GDI/GDI+. Now I'm on 7, so if I use the API's functions, will the rendering automatically be handled by the DWM/WDDM (so by DirectX)? or will it continue to render with GDI? Or likewise, will an old app written with WinAPI, be rendered with GDI also in Windows 7? Thank you in advan...
I wish the following: a text input a "go" button You type in the text input. If you hit enter or the "go" button, it puts (remote) search results in a drop-down for you to select (each item has an image and some text). If you start typing again, it clears back to original state (i.e. no drop-down). I'd like it to be jquery or a jq...
Hi, I wonder if someone can help me. I'm trying to display a toast element when an SMS is received. This toast should contain a layout which has an image (SMS Icon) and 2 textviews (sender, message) If I call the following method from an activity, it works as expected... public void showToast(Context context, String name, String messa...
Using the jquery UI Dialog, why is it that when the div that I want to make a dialog of has a position of absolute, the resulting dialog is minimized (can only see the header of the dialog .. if I take out the absolute position everything is fine ..? Thanks <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.o...
Hi, Suppose I have thread 1, the main window UI thread and thread 2, a login UI thread that is modal form. Now thread 1 executes a piece of code and wants to change a UI element in the login form so it invokes a delegate to change something in thread 2. But when it does so, the login form becomes hidden behind the main window and there...
I'm experimenting with C# using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. What I'd like to do is display data in a similar format as Windows Defragmenter does, i.e. in a grid consisting of many small rectangular elements. These elements should be turned off and on depending on data (i.e. having different colours) and customizable in number of elements ...
There are times when I have a decent number of source files open at once. Is there a way to change the number of rows of tabs that are visible while working in NetBeans? -- Or -- I have a dual monitor setup here. I could span NetBeans across the two monitors if it were possible to have multiple NetBeans editor windows open at the same...
I can easily create a html input field that has text already in it. But when the user clicks on the input field the text doesn't disappears but stays there. The user then has to manually remove the text to type. How can I create an input field where when the user clicks on the input field box the text then disappear? ...
I am looking for a control to add email addresses for a mailing application. I am not sure what it is called but I saw something similar to it at staples "Share This" link. It should allow to add email address by typing or delete it by clicking the X on its right. Could you please let me know if there are any existing controls for it or ...
What would be a good user experience to present this? I have: A folder/directory structure containing mostly media files that need to be presented in a Silverlight app. Future versions may be expanded to allow some non-media files to be presented as well. The typical use case (that I'm tailoring the solution for) is video. The videos (...
Hi StackOverflow, I am writing a simple reminder module for an application. This module will support one-shot reminders as well as periodical ones, for example, monthly reminders. The module must also behave correctly when the user travels across time zones: the reminder's alert goes off at the precise moment in absolute time that it wa...
Does anyone know where can i find this icon set for download (pngs + svgs) http://www.iconspedia.com/search/gnome/0/ and also, is the icons license allows it to be used in commercial applications? ...
I have a UI problem I am trying to figure out how to make it intuitive to use. I have a list of items, that is in no order, and flat. I need to figure out a way to use DnD in javascript to allow the user to reorder them (that is easy), and to put them into a hierarchy as I have below. I don't know if I want to go with how Visual Stud...