user-interface

Am I reinventing the wheel? PHP/Mysql User reigstration and payment processing.

I'm about to code a php/mysql platform that does the following: Admin panel User registration Paypal payment processing Paypal subscription handling via api so that the user doesnt have to have a paypal account Does something like this already exist that I can use? If nothing exists like this, I'm going to code it fresh in the zend ...

Example of TYPE_APPLICATION_PANEL

Can anyone provide working example of WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_APPLICATION_PANEL? I am trying to write a nice Android UI, and I would like to overlay an application panel on top of my current window. However, I cannot seem to get this working (and it's not from a lack of trying, believe me!). An example would be worth a lot to m...

jQuery Droppable: dropping outside div?

Is there any way I can get jQuery to perform a function when you drag an item outside a droppable DIV? Let's say that we have draggable or sortable items in a div and you want them deleted if they are dropped outside their parent div. I know there is the "out" event but that works as soon as you drag the item outside the div, not when...

Should I revive Clippy ? aka how can i provide user-friendly tips and help in a desktop application ?

While I've been working hard to keep the WinForms application I'm working on simple and easy to learn, the functional domain I'm working in (finance) is pretty rich, and I feel I should help the user figure out what to do next once the program is launched. I must add that in the software I'm working on, there's often "something to do ne...

What is the rationale behind UI namespace in Qt?

In the process of creating a user interface code from UI file Qt creates 2 classes with just the same definition. class UI_CustomeUIClassFromUIFile { //code generated from UI file thru UIC } namespace ui { class CustomeUIClassFromUIFile public : UI_CustomeUIClassFromUIFile{}; }using namespace ui; What is the reason for having 2 classe...

In which order should user messages (comments/chat) be displayed?

A typical chat widget will have a log of messages displayed in chronological order with the most recent message at the bottom. An input field is usually displayed below the log. Comment systems, like those on YouTube, seem to vary. Some display most recent comments up top, while some display most recent comments at the bottom. The lo...

Need guidance towards evaluative boolean logic tree

I can't seem to find a pointer in the right direction, I am not even sure what the terms are that I should be researching but countless hours of googling seem to be spinning me in circles, so hopefully the collective hive of intelligence of Stack Overflow can help. The problem is this, I need a way to filter data in what I can only call...

Map complex UI to Object cleanly and efficiently.

I currently have an app (in Silverlight), using mv-vm, that has an interface to add/edit/remove various entries to a database. A good analogy would be a page for ordering a car with many checkboxes and comboboxes for whatever features you wanted the car to include. My app has many of these UI elements (even including TreeViews with Tree...

Update-highlight-acknowledge UI design pattern

I am working on a safety-critical multi-user system where data shown to the operator can be changed by other operators or external systems. These changes need to be highlighted in the UI and then acknowledged by the operator. Anyone aware of existing UI design pattern that captures this need? ...

Good articles on usability?

I'm looking to find any articles/books on usability. I'd like to get a handle on best practices when designing a UI, this can be anything from which user controls are more intuitive to a new user, to how to phrase text that is displayed to the user to avoid confusing dialogs. I mainly do Windows desktop applications, but most usability s...

text in text box

hi, i am pretty new to the gwt framework and i am using it for building the ui of my web site, i would like to make the text box have a text in it that once the user clicks on it for the first time, the text disappears. and in the rest of the time it behaves like a normal text box any ideas on how to do it? ...

Problems with, or best practices for, passing data back through eventargs?

I've got a non-GUI class that generates events as to what it is doing (which are in turn used by a Form to display to the user the progress). One of the events is a AboutToDoSomethingDestructiveEvent. Now we want to have the Form display a dialog to the user when AboutToDoSomethingDestructiveEvent is raised, asking them if they would l...

How do I change server script background in Visual Studio 2008

I'm developing Asp.net MVC applications and since there's quite a bit of in-place server scripts in my aspx/ascx files it can become really messy finding your way around. What I would like to do (to make things easier on me) is set some background colour to server-side scripts. Right now only <% and %> have yellow background, but I wou...

In what scenarios can i use an auto-suggest textbox?

I have a list of brand names for a particular product in the db. I can either display it on the screen using a drop down or and auto-suggest textbox. I love the user experience of the auto-suggest textbox. But, is it right to use it here? I would also want to know the best scenario to use it? ...

How to pass data between BLL and UI in 3-layer (single tier) application?

I am a fairly rookie programmer who is trying to learn the basics of n-layered architecture (DAL, BLL, UI). The application I am programming is a single tier, 3-layer application written in VB.NET (.Net 3.5). Layers as follows: DAL BLL UI COMMON - contains DTO's right now. I am having trouble determining what to pass between my BL...

How can I implement a thumbnail-based view for user selection in Cocoa?

Hi, I have what I thought was a pretty simple need but I'm not sure how to go about implementing it. At various points in my interface, the user is asked to make a selection of something rather visual (like choosing a layout for a page or a color option.) These selections are made from a pre-defined set of options. Normally you'd use an...

PHP Zend Route Config.ini - similar patterns

Hi, I'm using a configuration file to route my requests in my application. I have the following entries: routes.deal.route = "deal/:id/*" routes.deal.defaults.controller = "deal" routes.deal.defaults.action = "index" routes.deal.reqs.id = "\d+" routes.deal.route = "deal/buy/:id/*" routes.deal.defaults.controller = "deal" routes.d...

creating custom button in gwt

hi, i am trying to do something pretty common with GWT. creating a button behavior with an image and a text. by positioning the text on top of the image. i have used the HTML widget but how can i make the text not selectable? ...

Trying to use a Google Maps user interface to caputre Lat/Lon in Django

I'm a Django newbie, and learning quickly. But I just can't figure out how to get this simple Google Maps user interface to pass the resulting lat/lon into my database. Can anyone help? ...

Mac Based Python GUI Libraries

Hello all, I am currently building a GUI based Python application on my mac and was wondering could anyone suggest a good GUI library to use? I was looking at python's gui programming faq and there was a lot of options making it hard to choose. I am developing on snow leopard and cross-platform is not essential (if it makes a differen...