user-interface

Qt app text size incorrect under MacOSX

Designing UIs with QtCreator under Windows, and porting the same .ui file under MacOSX leads to designs with some text parts very small -- actually, the HTML ones. It seems it comes from the fact that QtCreator uses pt instead of px as text size unit, and that the default screen resolutions are quite different under Windows and MacOSX. ...

IN jquery UI tabs us a form and using ajax submit it

I have used a jquery UI tabs plugin in my page and in one of the tab i have put a form. SO for example , the tab calls a page form.php which has the form tag of html. Now form.php uses ajax and jquery to submit the form. Does this sound feasible. $(document).ready(function(){ $("form#formdata").submit(function() { ...

Location/country clickable maps

anybdy knw any jquery plugin or any such thing in javascript,similar to this http://bit.ly/6ary44 ? which can b usd 2 select location/countries in maps...? I would not prefer flash, but still, if there is any for free with some customizable options/effects, it would do. ...

BasicEditField Customization

I want a basic edit field where the first character entered goes to the right most position ...something like this.. 2 23 234 can any one tell me how to do this... ...

Disclosure "i" button or chevron for iPhone app?

I have a UITableView with rows that each have two actions that can be performed. The user can be shown the item details screen (edit the name and see summary info) or they can 'open' the item to properly interact and play with it. At the moment the first action is achieved via a rounded-rect button with a label "i" in it, and the second ...

jquery init function

I got a simple UI widget and i'd like it to alert() the "hello world!!!" when initialised. $.widget("ui.myWidget", { _init: function() { //start alert('Hello World!!!'); } } could some one explain how this init or _init function works.? if i was to call the ui just like the dialog ui would $('#selector').dialog() in...

Loosely couple a modal dialog - is this possible?

I have a winforms custom UI control library which contains a control for displaying modal dialogs Picture-in-Picture. This custom control receives as a parameter a pointer to the control which has initiated it's display. So they are tied together. This allows the control to be modally displayed over the window which launched it. ...

jQuery method to a search box with a dropdown menu in it

It's easier to show you what I am trying to do with jQuery. I'm looking to make a menu within an input field like Oodle has at the top of their site in their search bar: http://www.oodle.com/vehicle/ . Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! ...

How do you calculate the offset to the client area in WPF?

I want to position a modal dialog (progress window) at the top right corner of the parent window client area. This code will put it in the corner of the non-client area, but how do I calculate the offset to the client area? this.Owner=owner; this.Left=owner.Left+owner.ActualWidth-Width; this.Top=owner.Top; Edit: I found this 'soluti...

Usability / UI Design / UX, etc. - documenting for a project

Hi all, I'm a software developer, and I'm going onto a project now that involves implementing a website using ASP.NET (3.5 / 2008, using the Web Client Software Factory). I've been tasked at creating a UI / UX Design Document for the project, however I don't really know where to start. I've been on one project in 3 years where there wa...

Hyperlink vs Button

Searching for input about UI design patterns regarding the use of hyperlinks vs buttons. A screen in a web application should/could have a mix of buttons and hyperlinks on it. It seems that the 'look' is the major governing factor as to which is used, but I want something more logical than that. Does anyone know of any hard and fast ru...

How to hide all databases I am not authorised to use in Sql Server 2005 Management Studio?

I have to access some customers databases being hosted in a shared environment. There are numerous databases being hosted on any given customers instance. So everytime I access a database I have to scroll and search. I would like to be able to configure Management Studio to just go directly to the database I want to work with for a giv...

Jquery - waiting for user input

im trying to make a popup that comes up to confirm a users action (deleting a row in a table, for example..). aiming at making the popup entirely HTML and Javascript. What i can't get my head around is how i would make the javascript wait for the users input, but still function for other javascript events. (other click triggered stuff, e...

designing keyword/tag input

I am currently working on a form and am stuck on a keyword/tag input field (think youtube.. or even stackoverflow). Anyway, I thought it was pretty logical to use ',' to separate the tags... which would allow users to use combinations of words as tags using ' '. However my boss wants it separated with just ' '. Which worries me as I thin...

Jquery UI dialog and sortable columns #dialog class issue

Hello @all , I succeed to create a sortable portlet system for a excisting cms. I also made a dialog pop where i can change true a form the title and in the future some more content within the dialog ,for each portlet. However my issue is that the #dialog shows the form inside my page before i click the icon. When i click the icon , t...

jQuery new UI problem

$.widget("ui.myWidget", { _init: function() { //start alert('Hello World!!!'); } } I have the above widget/ui when i call it like so... <div onclick="$('#id').myWidget()"> Click Me </div> i get the "Hello World!!!" alert box. if i click it again then nothing happens. i don't know if im missing something... bu...

Make my view as pretty as NSAlertView

Hi all, I have a modal view in my iPhone app (Xcode, Objective C++). How do I make it look as pretty as the system UIAlertView? Specifically, I want: rounded-rect window with a border around it semitransparent background subtle highlight near the top The transparency can be probably achieved with a less than one alpha channel on the...

Show dialog/frame fullscreen on a second sceen sing QT/c++

I have an application with a secondary view that should be shown fullscreen on the other monitor (the one the main app is not on). Displaying the frame works quite well with frame.showFullScreen(); But, how can I tell it which screen it should be on? Is there a way to detect if a second screen is avauilable, as well? ...

using jquery highlight effect

I would like to use jquery highlight effect to highlight a paragraph with background orange, then when completed, turn on orange background permanently. In this code the second task does not work. myparagrah = $("#thisParagraph"); turnOrangeOnWarning("This is a warning!"); function turnOrangeOnWarning(t) { myparagrah.text...

ASPxGridView in a JQuery UI modal dialog

I'm trying to display an ASPxGridView using a JQuery UI modal dialog. The grid is configured to use callbacks to access the server (seems to be the best/fastest solution). I'm able to show it via a normal postback, but am unable to run any callbacks correctly. The first click on a pager link will callback to the server and the correct r...