How can I use the browser as a UI for a desktop app? The ways I have come up with so far are... Use all HTML/Javascript. Problem: Can't access filesystem or just about anything else. Run a local webserver while the application is in use. Problem: How do I kill it when the user is done? My users are not technical enough to Ctrl+C. Embed...
What solutions do I have if I want to prevent the UI from freezing while I deserialize a large number of UI elements in WPF? I'm getting errors complainig that the objects belong on the UI Thread when I'm trying to load them in another thread. So, what options do I have to prevent the Vista "Program not responding" error while I'm loadin...
Hello, I am trying to create accordian control dynamically by reading the values from the database. Could someone please point me to the example code on how to start. Many Thanks ...
I have a droppable container with >1 draggables in it. I want to simply be able to see the position of each draggable every time any one of them is dragged. Sounds easy, but I'm having a tough time figuring it out. Here's what I have: <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $("#draggable").draggable({ containment: '#droppable' }...
I have a duplicate bridge scoring application with two different sorting modes. Let me fill you in on how duplicate bridge works so you have an idea what I'm looking for. You sit and play a few hands of bridge against one set of opponents. Then you and the boards move and you play a few more hands of bridge against a new set of oppone...
I am working on a multilingual web application. I'm wondering how do i design the best user interface that the user can localize data for various languages? for instance, in making a page which its title is different in every lang, do i put a textbox for every one? it's not a suitable way to do(in case of 10 lang, the user has 10 textbox...
For an university project on usability I'm looking for an open source project that is useful but hardly usable. My group would do a complete usability review and give recommendations over a period of approximately 3 months. Of course this is no purely altruistic idea and the best-case-scenario would be: Our recommendations get implemen...
I have a SearchController with an action that can execute some long running searches and return a results page. The searches can take anywhere from 1 to 60 seconds. The URL for a search is an HTTP GET request of the form: http://localhost/Search?my=query&is=fancy The experience I'm looking for is similar to the many travel sites t...
I don't want multiple windows, each with its own UI thread, nor events raised on a single UI thread, not background workers and notifications, none of that Invoke, BeginInvoke stuff either. I'm interested in a platform that allows multiple threads to update the same window in a safe manner. Something like first thread creates three bu...
What is difference between Interaction design, Visual Design, Web design, UX design, UI design, UI development? BTB, link found below answered for UI Vs UX. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334496/difference-between-ui-and-ux ...
Hi all, I am looking to create an external library for Android that essentially provides an Activity that others can inherit from and the base Activity takes care of all the basic visual user interface stuff. So, it would be like the Mapping APIs that Google provides. Ideally it would be included in the manifest file in a manner similar ...
Does anyone else think that the add view dialog in VS is useless or is it just me? Why is there no search/filtering in there? I can not even paste the type name (without namespace) there to speed up the view creation. Plus, there are a lot of irrelevant classes there, including classes from all referenced libraries. Am I missing somet...
hi, i am building a site with GWT. i have finished all the logics and now i need to work on the graphics/UI. i am just begining my way at web site and i have 2 questions: 1) how can i make my web site look good in every resolution? 2) in most of the places i have read that the UI components (background/buttons..) is always in a tab...
I need .NET UI control that acts as a designer/editor window similar to what you see in some of these applications: - Visual Studio - Visio - Balsamiq - Windows Workflow - Photoshop I hope to use WPF, but will settle for WinForms. I need to create custom widgets that I can drag, drop, and edit in the designer/editor window. I ...
I want to position an element in normal css relative to the element before it, and then once it's been initially positioned makes its position independant of the one before it. For example, when you click on a 'widget' in the sidebar, it collapses, and all of the 'widgets' below it move up. I don't want them to move. Thanks. ...
I have a small WPF application that I am working on localizing. I have read thru a number of documents but I have not found a good source of information about dealing with 'rich' content - for example: I have a ui element (TextBlock) that contains a mix of text with formatting, inline images and symbols. I want to localize this element....
So we're re-designing a desktop application so that it's also usable with thye Touch Interface with Windows 7. We've consulted the UX guidelines. For some part of the UI, there are toolbox icons that are disabled because of some arcane rules (the software communicates with a hardware device). We disable the actions that aren't applicabl...
I am trying to add an icon on ui tabs when validate fails. Which method should i use (option is my guess). Can anyone help me. Thanks ...
Hi to all, i use jquery ui tabs and i have a button for add tabs that works fine. When add the delete functionallity i lost it, because when delete a tabs changes the id of tabs. Here is the thing. Lets say that i have 4 tabs the tab id are (0,1,2,3). When delete the tab id 1 i have 3 tabs with tab id (0,1,2). To delete i use a js fu...
I am new in building web apps and just begun learning and setting up Grails. I am planning to build an app which has a flow of 4 to 5 pages. Since HTTP is a stateless protocol, how is the state between the pages maintained usually. I am curious what is the accepted standard here, should I create session scoped objects and use them betwee...