Evenly aligning things in IB
I have ten labels on a view positioned vertically. I need to evenly space them. Does IB have any type of setting that will do this? ...
user-interface
Ways to enhance a trial user's first time experience.
I am looking for some ideas on enhancing a trial-user's user experience when he uses a product for the first time. The product is aimed at a particular domain and has various features/workflows. Experienced users of the product naturally find interesting ways to combine features to get the results they want (somewhat like using an IDE fr...
Launching code for Javascript modules
Most of the javascript I work with is UI code - code that attaches additional functionality to the HTML framework of my pages and interacts with various HTML elements. Overall, I'm in favor of breaking UI code into into modules. For example, if I have code that attaches handlers to back/next buttons that implements carousel behavior, i...
Generify UI components
I was trying for days to figure out if is possible, I failed but maybe it is be possible(I think it should be possible). Let's say we have a few UI components similar with Swing hierarchies + we will use fluent interfaces Fluent Interfaces: public abstract class Component { ... public abstract Component setName(String name)...
User interactive Drawings
Hello all I want to draw at my winforms application some CAD drawings. Also I will need some parts of the drawings from them be a user interactive (Interactive with the mouse) . Any idea what technology should i use for drawings here ? Thanks . ...
ui.tabs add callback not able to set tab
Hi, I am trying to get jQuery tabs to behave like IE and Firefox. I have a few tabs with an "addtab" at the end. When this tab is clicked a new tab is added, this is fine. But i want to select the second last tab. This is proving to be quite difficult. my init code is $tabs =$("#tabs").tabs({ add: function(event, ui) { ...
Need help choosing a research direction for UI field
Hello all, This lot has proved EXTREMELY helpful in the past so I thought I would pose a question with a more open ended answer. I am going to be starting my M.S. in Graphic Information Technology Thesis and I need a topic. I am a web designer and front-end developer working full time in that industry. My adviser prefers we bit off a pi...
Advantages of interface metadata in a database
I'm working on an application where the interface metadata is stored in a database. Basically the C# .NET application reads the positions, size and text of buttons, labels, radiobuttons, etc.. from SQL Server tables. As far as I can tell, who ever wrote the application entered all of this information by hand as I cannot find the tool (...
JQuery- ui dialog return value & iplocation data retrieval
Basically, I referred to some sources, and found this: "Yah, that's easy, just create a div on your page, put the form in there, and make that your dialog." Well that's great, but what if you're trying to achieve maximum compatibility? What happens if for whatever reason a user has JavaScript disabled in their browser? Suddenly that e...
What is the point in having 2 stylesheets one for layout one for style?
Hi, Im working on some web software that has 2 style sheets one for style (style.css) and one for layout (layout.css). Im wondering what the poing in this is (apart from the obvious) I mean some style options will effect the layout and vice versa. So would it be better to roll all css into on page to make it easier? Maintining multiple ...
Entering metric height for a person
This is a question to people who live with the metric system. When entering your height on forms is there a strong expectation that you would enter a value of meters or centimeters? We've gone with meters on WeightChart.com, but have seen some impossibly tall people wondering why our calculations are way off. We've implemented some sa...
Is a confirmation screen necessary for an order form?
In a discussion about how to streamline an order form on our site, the idea of eliminating the confirmation screen. So, instead of filling out the form, clicking "Submit", seeing a summary on a confirmation screen and clicking "Confirm", the user would simply fill out the form, hit "Submit", and the order's done. The theory is that fewer...
Android view dithering.
As you can see from the screenshot below, the "titlebar" is getting these ugly banding lines across the areas with text that extend the entire width of the screen. It's even more noticeable on a real device. Is there any way to work around this? ...
Disabling ListItem selectability.
As you can see from the screenshot below I have a ListView with multiple items in it. No matter what I try I can't seem to make the list item's not be selectable. I've tried all of the follow (in the XML layout for the ListView), but the items are STILL selectable with both a finger and the scroll wheel. android:clickable="false" andro...
droid user interface implemenation
I would like to write an application that would run initially on a Motorola Droid. The application would retrieve row(s) from a database and display some textual data from the rows as well as an image associated with the record that will be stored on the SD card. I really think that the results would be best displayed in a fashion simi...
Tool for drawing UI Mockups for a web application..
One of my clients have asked me to give UI mockups of all pages of my web application... I found Balsamiq which seems to be a good one... Any other tools.... What would you use for drawing UI mockups? ...
Java Swing: separating UI component from logic behaviour - how do you approach this?
What I do, in NetBeans for example: create a UI component class, suffixed with Swing component type, e.g. JPanel, e.g. MyUIWidgetJPanel create a logic/behaviour class to handle the behaviour/logic, i.e. what happens when the UI component is used, e.g. buttons within it pressed etc., MyUIWidgetLogic I may also link components/logic to...
Online GUI design tool
Is there somewhere a web based app in which you can make a mockup for program UI? It doesn't have to export to anything meaningful, but it can't hurt. Need to present several UI designs (as much as I can come up with) to a customer, but couldn't find any tool on the web. ...
Android UI vs J2ME UI
Hi, I know android is better than J2ME, but i need to know what can i do with android but j2me cant?? (just about UI), some examples could be... thx a lot, i'm new in mobile... ...
Reasons behind Office 2007 UI
Since most of the people having to change from Office 2003 to 2007 in their office are confused, it amuses me if there is an objective reason for abandoning the good old interface of previous Offices. It would also be nice to have some backing facts when people ask about rationale of change. For example I would be interested in: Was t...