Hi All, I've read a lot of articles about the UI ,buisness logic ,WCF ,IoC, but still, one thing is missing from my mind. I build a winforms application and a console app. the Console App is the brain. Now, in all the client-server architecture the client "know" the server , send him request and get the answer. My qestion is as follow: ...
Hi everyone, I am just curious how facebook for iPhone application can display a list of icons with the text, then all the icons shake to allow user to change the position of each item. What kind of control is that, and is there some sample code that do the same thing? I think it must be standard because it exists as well in home scre...
Do you know any source for nice looking software designs? (non Web). ...
Hi, I am looking for recommendations on resources (both books and websites) on designing GUI applications. By designing I mean the technical design (when and how to use data binding, when should MVC/MVP be used, what functionality should go into the model, the view, the controller/presenter, how can different parts of the UI best be kep...
Hello everyone, I am developing an html page on Windows platform. I find when the resolution (or size, in pixels) of browser (display) is larger than the page size, the page will be aligned to the left of the browser, and I want to align the page to the center (middle) of the browser when the page size is smaller than browser. Any idea...
I'm creating a SharePoint web part in C# that is using an UpdatePanel for some AJAX magic. Everything is working fine, but I'd like to know how to lay out my controls visually (without using SharePoint Designer). I just have two dropdownlists, some labels, a button, and a textbox. I am creating them within the overridden CreateChildContr...
What is the best way to deal with input elements that are currently not available, or locked to a default value, e.g. a "state" field that is only relevant to some countries, a button for functionality that the current user is not authorized to use, or a dropdown menu entry that is only relevant when the user has selected something? The...
I have a div that appears if errors were encountered during a processing step. I have a 'More Info' link which, when clicked, I would like to expand and show specific errors encountered. I thought I could use scriptaculous and the Effect.Grow() animation but this seems to always start from 0px x 0px and scale up. Is it possible to star...
Hello all I have a feature whereby a class in a dll displays a form asking a user to clear a fault on a printer before clicking a button to say "Retry". The users have been just hitting retry without bothering to clear the fault so I am now coding an interlock: The button on the invoked form is disabled until a call is made to an 'enab...
Hello, I am interested in learning how to create attractive and user-friendly ASP.NET websites. I have done some ASP.NET programming, but would like to be able to design attractive and user-friendly web interfaces? Could anyone suggest some books on the design and interaction aspects of web sites that would help? What topics should I co...
I can see keys on the device fire for a particular View with onKey, but this doesn't fire when keys on the software keyboard are pressed. I am trying to build a dynamic UI that recalculates a value as the input changes, while it's changing. Is there a way to capture either that the value of the EditText has changed? ...
I've been reading Udi Dahan's text on [Command Query separation and SOA][1]. Thinking about how I would use this in practice in a system I'm currently working on raised some questions... 1. Consider the following situation where I have a WPF client application that allows the user to edit a list of entries: The client application is...
hi, i am pretty new to GWT, i have an image that i have placed a text on top, i need the text to look as part of the image. i have used the image widget and the HTML widget to position it on top of it, i need this text to change according the locale. the problem that the text is selectable, so it does not look right. 1) is there any ...
Could anyone show me how to make a thumbnail with hover effect like google chrome tab website thumbnail e.g. when you hover the website screenshot image, a blue box will appear with pin and you can move. THank you ...
There seem to be a ton of UI properties that can be set with UIManager.put("key", value); Is there a list somewhere of all keys that can be set? ...
I reasearch modern Ajax Grids capable of grouping rows by fields (into collapsible sections), in a manner similar to ExtJs Grid grouping. Important requirements to such a grid is not only grouping, but grouping (sorting) by multiple fields, e.g. by country and gender. Ideally user needs to be able to select fields to group by (sort by) d...
Is there a utility (like Blat) that can be used to recieve mail, perhaps via POP? I need something that's A Windows Executable (no DLLs) Simple to use Doesn't need to be installed I'm trying to make a simple email interface for my program. Any ideas would be appreciated. While on the subject, is there a good free email provider that...
I have an app that has a progress bar & spawns a worker thread to do some work & report back progress. The dialog class overrides the customEvent method so that I can process events that are being passed to the gui thread via the worker thread. Before I was using a QThread derived class as the worker thread and I changed it to use ACE_...
Hello All In my blackberry application, I am doing something like below to update the label field for every second in run method of my thread class. But problem is application displays pre loader/hour glass for every update. I want to get rid of that hour glass and I want to see smooth update of the label field to be happened. How can I...
I'm sure I am missing something simple... Background: I am new to android and UI design, and I just wanted to play around with layouts. Right now I want to stack a checkbox on top of text label. I am using the following xml layout which works fine: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.andr...