user-interface

Web interface pattern for associating two entities from data-sets without javascript

Hi All I am writing an ASP.Net MVC application. I have two entities - patients and treatments - which belong to large datasets with more than a thousand of each. The user needs to be able to easily create an association between the two - say add a treatment to a patient. I cannot use ajax or javascript. The list of treatments would ...

How to use the mousewheel in a Squeak / Morphic GUI

I am implementing a graphical user interface with Morphic / Squeak. Some of the items have drag & drop functionality. While dragging, I want to be able to rotate these items with the mousewheel. The first problem is that using the mousewheel ends the drag-action and leads to a drop (attempt). How can I suppress that - and fire the mouse...

Datepicker with jQuery

I once saw a datepicker where the month and year where in 1 (and the same) select box, how do I do this (with options/hardcoding) The css file also gives a clue of this possibility (select.ui-datepicker-month-year) so does anybody know the answer ? And also, I know you can show the first/last days of the next/previous month as well, but...

PyGTK Horizontal List

I have a presentation program, and I have a vertical list with slides. I was wanting to put a horizontal list for re-ordering, and easy movement between slides. It would look something like this, and might even have a horizontal scrollbar: +------+------+------+------+-+ | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | | <===========================> ...

Is there any special tool for interactive GUI development

Hi, Currently I am preparing exercises about networks and mobile communications for students. I was thinking about creating an interactive user-interface which enables the user to drag&drop predefined elements and then implement a logic based upon element distances etc. An example would be to place two base stations (a predefined elem...

jquery ui draggable elements not 'draggable' outside of scrolling div

hello all, i am super stumped. i have many elements (floating href tags) in a div with a set height/width, with scroll set to "overflow: auto" in the css. this is the structure of the divs: <div id="tagFun_div_main"> <div id="tf_div_tagsReturn"> <!-- all the draggable elements go in here, the parent div scolls --> </div> <div id="...

Where to find User Interface (UI) design patterns for Windows applications?

I don't know if this question really suits here, but we'll see :) For web applications there are sites like Pattern Tap and UI-patterns, which have a great collection of design patterns used in UI's. I can't seem to find any websites/books/articles which cover design patterns for Windows Applications. The only useful resource I found ...

Things app tasks. How?

Guys, any thoughts how create interface elements as tasks in Things application ? is it Nstableview? ...

User Guideline or Example of Ribbon UI for Enterprise products

We are planning to implement Ribbon UI for our products. I am evaluating the use of Ribbon UI for our Network Manager Products. The result of this evaluation would decide Go or NO Go for Ribbon UI. Presently, Ribbon UI design guidelines do not talk Ribbon UI implementation for Enterprise Products. I am looking for is how suitable is Ri...

How do I decide between a using a Swing GUI or a light-weight web client for the user front end of my Java application?

I always seem to have this internal struggle when it comes to user interface. I build up an application "engine" and tend to defer user interface to after I get my algorithms working. Then I go back and forth trying to decide how to let a user interact with my program. Personally, I'm a fan of the command line, but I can't expect that of...

Horizontal blackberry file manager

i have a horizontal file manager on a screen ...and a vertical field manager inside the horizontal field manager..but the height of the vertical field manager increases and decreases due to adding and deleting fields dynamically... and the height of the horizontal file manager changes accordingly which i don't want...i want to fix the he...

How can I implement a blocking process in a single slot without freezing the GUI?

Let's say I have an event and the corresponding function is called. This function interacts with the outside world and so can sometimes have long delays. If the function waits or hangs then my UI will freeze and this is not desirable. On the other hand, having to break up my function into many parts and re-emitting signals is long and...

Listen to JFrame resize events as the user drags their mouse?

When a user clicks on the corner of a JFrame to resize and drags the mouse around, the JFrame redraws based on the current position of the mouse as the user drags. How can you listen to these events? Below is the what I have currently tried: public final class TestFrame extends JFrame { public TestFrame() { this.addComponen...

Make combobox unselectable? or better UI?

This may seem strange... but I'm wondering if there is anyway to make a combobox non selectable. So it displays as normal, except cannot be selected. I have 3 buttons underneath it, Edit, Cancel, Save. (Cancel + save obviously not enabled) The plan is so when user hits edit, they can change the items in the combo box. I know .IsEnabled...

iPhone modal view inside another modal view?

My App uses a modal view when users add a new foo. The user selects a foo type using this modal view. Depending on what type is selected, the user needs to be asked for more information. I'd like to use another modal view to ask for this extra information. I've tried to create the new modal view like the first one (which works great) an...

UI/logic separation - could anyone recommend a good source of knowledge

Hey! I am a newcomer in the area of user interfaces. I am working now on the design of a user interface for a piece of code I have in C++ language. I've decided to use QT for creating the UI. Now, what I am mostly concerned in is what is the proper way of separating the UI from the logic. I have some data layer, which should be acces...

How to have LiveValidation submit button validate fields on the current jquery accordion panel that is open?

I am using the LiveValidation script to validate elements. I have a jQuery accordion which has a few panels which some asp.net textboxes and buttons. Everything works fine except that if I open one panel that has a button and I click that button, it not only validates the elements for the panel that I am viewing, but if I open up anoth...

User Interface Design Tools

Hi, Can you please suggest me some nice user interface design tools for developing a game? Thanks in advance. ...

Difference between a jQuery plugin and a jQuery widget?

Can someone concisely explain the differences between jQuery plugins and jQuery UI widgets? What are the conceptual differences? Why would I choose one over the other and what pros and cons are there for each. What are the differences in the intention and concept for each? I've written both, but I'm not clear on the nitty gritty differe...

WPF TextBox Validating results ToolTip

Experimenting with WPF validating input, I tried to use ToolTip for displaying results of TextBox input validation, like this: <Style.Triggers> <Trigger Property="Validation.HasError" Value="true"> <Setter Property="ToolTip" Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=(Validation.Errors)[0].E...