user-interface

Paradigms in menu bar layout/design

Doing some restructuring on the my applications menu bar. When looking at other applications, there seems to be two different ways of structure. Either the "old school" most common way, the verb/command followed by the subject. I.e. what do you want to do and what do you want to do that on. Like so: File New Foo Bar Open Foo Bar ...

Is there a min. version of the jquery datepicker javascript file

I want to know if there is a min. version of the jquery datepicker javascript file ...

How do I configure VS2008 to stop compiling when it hits X errors?

Maybe I'm remembering Borland's compiler? But I seem to recall having the ability to set "stop compiling if X errors are encountered" - or some such. VS2008 already stops on 100 errors. But I'm already fixing the first couple, and hitting save, which causes the compiler to warn me about saving while compiling - which its being retar...

Displaying tabular data on Blackberry.

Hi all, I basically want to replicate this on the blackberry - http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4628/tempi.jpg Is there a simple way of doing it instead of messing around with the graphics object of ListView? Thanks, Teja ...

How to show hint for a disabled TDBEdit?

I have a TDBEdit that is not enabled and thus not showing the Hint. What would be the best way to have it display the Hint while staying disabled? ...

Android: When I set an OnClickListener for a ListView....

lv.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){ public void onClick(View v){ } }); Does v refer to the ListView lv or the specific item selected in the list? Thanks in advance. ...

How to show/hide html controls keeping their locations the same?

Imagine search bar on html page, it has, say 4 controls on the same line, each wrapped in DIV. E.g. a few listboxes on the same line: searchbyX, byY, byZ, byN After some clicks, some of these controls are hidden, some are displayed (using JQuery). The problem is that I want each control to keep it's place, but if I hide it's left neighbo...

Inserting a Quicktime Player similar to apple.com

Looking at Apple Website they do an outstanding job with the quicktime movies they show off to their users. When I've included quicktime links before, the player that actually shows to users is quite bland, and across browsers really differs from what it looks like in safari, chrome, ie, firefox. Apple seems to handle all these conditi...

Best way for a mobile app to display records from thousands available?

Suppose, you have a larger database of customers, such as 5000 records. Using a simple select query it can take 2-5 seconds on a mobile application to populate a listview with all thousands of customers available. But the user only needs to select one, so what is the best way to select the customer? If you have a few records eg: 50 cu...

Information about how to use YUI to develop an interface for a Java Web Application

Hello Can anyone recommend some good sources of information on developing a user interface for a Java Web Application using YUI Should I take it as a bad sign that there is scant information about this combination on web? Thanks ...

jQuery UI resizable not working at all

Ok here is the problem. jQuery Resizable just does not work on this page: click here Try it out on the grey box in the upper left corner. What I want to do is make the shoutbox on the right size resizable. But it didn't work so I tried to just copy everything from the jQuery UI example page into my one and try it out. So I added the g...

Architecture of complex UI depending on user rights

Hi, I'm developing complex UI application with several forms and widgets. The behaviour of the UI heavily depend on user rights, i.e. editors should see more widgets and forms than viewers, and admin should see all UI elements. Moreover, forms must be customized also. There is no actual problem with the layout, since layout could be cu...

Tooltips with infinite timeout?

I'm thinking of setting the timeout on all my tooltips in a WinForms application to infinity (or an extremely large value). The motivation is that it's annoying for the user if the tooltip disappears while I'm still reading it, without providing any extra value whatsoever as far as I can tell. Normally I wouldn't ask something like this...

How can I make a UIView glossy and shiny?

I'm coding an iPhone app annd I currently have a View that looks like this: I'm wondering if there is a way to make it shiny and glossy like the Phone.app call screen. Thanks! ...

UI design pattern for true/false/null (for inheritance of values)?

Hi there. I'm trying my best to figure out a succinct, straightforward widget, using standard UI widgets available in any toolkit (e.g., checkboxes, radio buttons, or listboxes), that could model a true/false/null value. Why am I trying to do this? I'm storing a tree in a database (go ahead, criticise me for storing hierarchical informa...

UI Modification to jQuery scrollTo: Fade Prev/Next controls when nothing left to scroll.

http://cambridgeuplighting.com/portfolio I am trying to create a function that will fade the Next and Prev controls for a scrollTo function when the slideshow has reached either end. I have a good start but it doesn't work how I want it to. I need the controls to fade out the click BEFORE it reaches the end. Right now it reaches the en...

Web-based UI element for selecting a geographical location

I'd like to create / use a UI element for a web-site that provides a world map, on which the user can draw a circle to indicate an area of interest. I'd like information on the coordinates of the area covered by the circle to be available to me via Javascript for sending back to the server over Ajax. Does such a control exist, and if no...

Debugging an unresponsive iPhone UI

I have an application that needs to update its display every minute or so. To achieve this I was using performSelector:withObject:afterDelay, calling the selector that most of the time just changes some text in a label based on a very simple (and quick) calculation. [self performSelector:@selector(updateDisplay) withObject:nil af...

.NET WPF UI Component Library

Which library to use for WPF? Infragistics ComponentOne SyncFusions ActiProSoftware Telerik Thanks, Marco Parenzan ...

WPF UI Suggestions?

I have a UI with some controls, then in the middle I have 6 overlapping grids. I am using these grids as 'pages' and as the user navigates through the 'pages' I cycle through using Visible.Hidden and Visible.Visible to show the correct 'page'. I noticed while developing as I was adding more grids the application started to slow down (a...