user-interface

Is there a standard user interface paradigm for configuring the partition of a set of elements?

Consider you have a set of objects X (e.g., A, B, C, D) that you wish to divide into non-empty subsets that cover all of X. Mathematically, a partition of the set. So, at first you might treat them as all different, {{A}, {B}, {C}, {D}}. Alternatively, you could separate them into vowels and consonants, i.e. {{A}, {B,C,D}}. Or, arbitra...

Heat Map Testing - How should it affect modern web design?

I'm an in house UI/UX/Web Designer at my company. Before hiring me our company had an enterprise level web consulting firm on retainer that we are "letting go of" soon. We are still using them primarily for feedback at the time until our contract is up. In the past, and particularly with some current feedback, this firm has referred a g...

Resources for Programmatic Rendering of Topology Maps

Servus, Do you know of any frameworks, APIS, languages, or other resources that are well suited for drawing topology maps that allow a user to interact with objects on the map? I am not constrained by language choice and the program can be web-based, or stand-alone. I thought I would check before rolling my own. My goal is not to d...

master page file issue

Hello everyone, I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and I am using publishing portal template. I have a root web site and some child sub-web site. I am using Blueband.master and related css files (e.g. Band.css). My question is, for my parent site and child site, are they using the same mas...

How do I give professional look and feel to my .NET windows application?

I'm using WINFORMS not WPF. I just know basic c# .net gui programming. I donot want the traditional windows look. I want to have my own custom look (eg. gtalk, antivirus softwares, media players, google chrome). Actually I'm inspired by google's PICASA software. Its awesome. I want to do something like that.How can I do that? If there ...

Creating a standard Android preferences dialog

New Android developer here - I'm hoping this is simple. I want to create a "row-based" prefs dialog, like you see in most standard apps. You know, black background, fading-line separators, bigger/bold label text for each entry, smaller description text, perhaps a checkbox/down arrow. Is there a standard object in the Android API for ...

Move layouts up when soft keyboard is shown?

I have a few elements in a RelativeView with the align bottom attribute set, when the soft keyboard comes up the elements are hidden by the soft keyboard. I would like them to move up so that if there is enough screen space they are shown above the keyboard, or to make the section above the keyboard scrollable so the user can still see ...

What is a good UI approach for a WPF dash-board-with-several-windows kind of application?

I am developing a WPF desktop app for a small business. It will have a dashboard with 4 buttons that should show a corresponding window/form. Examples - Manage Entries Admin Reports Help Each of these has a separate form with lots of controls and stuff. Is it best to have each of these as a separate window (including dashboard) an...

Camera preview UI overlay on Android ?

How do I write code which layouts UI elements (Buttons, etc) over camera preview on Android ? ...

Handling selection and deselection of objects in a user interface

I'm writing a small audio application (in Silverlight, but that's not really relevant I suppose), and I'm a struggling with a problem I've faced before and never solved properly. This time I want to get it right. In the application there is one Arrangement control, which contains several Track controls, and every Track can contain Audio...

Listbox items dynamic load.

I want to create dynamic load for items in Silverlight Listbox. When user reaches end of items by scroll bar (or mouse wheel), then I want call new request for next 10 (or some different) items. And problem is which event on listbox can handle this? ...

How to prevent onbeforeunload from being called when clicking submit button

How can I prevent onbeforeunload from being called when clicking the submit button? $(document).ready(function() { $('input:text,input:checkbox,input:radio,textarea,select').one('change', function() { //('BODY').attr('onbeforeunload',"return 'Leaving this page will cause any unsaved data to be lost.';"); if( window.onbe...

WPF ListBox with a ListBox - UI Virtualization and Scrolling

My prototype displays "documents" that contain "pages" that are represented by thumbnail images. Each document can have any number of pages. For example, there might be 1000 documents with 5 pages each, or 5 documents with 1000 pages each, or somewhere inbetween. Documents do not contain other documents. In my xaml markup I have a List...

Free CSS UI Templates

Hi, Could someone show me some css ui framework/template for consistent web application, something like: http://www.webguitemplates.com/templates/futurism/futurism-blue http://www.webguitemplates.com/templates/simplus/simplus-silver http://www.adminizio.com/ http://gooeytemplates.myshopify.com/products/blue-atom http://gooeytemplates....

how to allow for a flexible UI in ASP.NET MVC

We are starting a new ASP.NET MVC project and we would like to establish a pattern of development that will allow flexibility in the UI. The general idea is that we would like to develop a set of related controls as a unit (i.e. a set of inputs and a submit button) and maintain the flexibility to decide later 1 of 3 UI options Have t...

Building an international site focusing on interface and layout

Dear Stackoverflow, I've been asked to research what the best practices are when building the international version of your site. The main question being asked of me is how we handle Chinese and Arabic. For example, when the user selects Arabic as a language, should only text be right aligned or should our nav, logo and general layou...

UI guidelines for when to use an expander versus a tab control?

Several parts of our existing business application use a tab control to logically separate groups of data. In other applications I often see the expander control also used for this purpose. Does anyone know of any usability guidelines that provide guidance on when to use the tab control versus the expander control? If it matters I'm...

Show progress till an operation completes winform

I have a WinForm app(.net 3.5) that when you first select a Person it retrieves all of that persons data for there entire Plan. This can take up to 5 secs. I need to show my users(in house only) that the program is loading/working in some way. I also need to keep them at that screen until it finishes as well. Do to the design of the ...

What's the relationship between pixels and scaled pixels

I used the layout editor in eclipse to mock up my ui layout and then I created the code to populate it dynamically and things are showing up as different sizes. The XML I use to add the star images looks like this: <ImageView android:src="@drawable/star_gold" android:layout_height="22sp" android:layout_width="22sp" android:adjustViewBo...

NSScrollView doesn't display vertical scrollbar after adding content

I've created an NSScrollView which itself contains a NSClippedView as content view (this is all default, created by IB). Inside the contents view there is the (default) document view. This NSScrollView has horizontal scroller disabled and vertical enabled and, most importantly auto hide scrollers enabled. When I add new views (via code...