user-interface

WPF/Silverlight Text Effect

Notice in the image below the 1px highlight below the text in the grey panel. How could this be achieved with WPF/Silverlight? . ...

when you resign a uitexfield keyboards first responder is it simulating hitting the return/done button?

Basically i have a uitext field that adds a string to an array when you hit the done button of the keyboard (or hit the'+' button next to the field), which I think is the behavior to be expected in the ui by users, however if they choose to close the keyboard by touching the big button behind everything that will also resign the first re...

Does exists a tags field or something like tags in Mac OS for iPhone SDK?

Hi, I want to create a tags system for an iPhone app that let you type the tags names and appear like in some Mac OS software. Like this: Do you know if there's a way to do that? Or if there's a third party library for that? Thank you! ...

Descriptive label names in a desktop application

I have an application that displays a dialog when the user needs to enter information. The reason for this, is to keep the main form readonly, and only when you need to add/edit data will a dialog appear. The problem I'm wrestling with is what to display for the label names in the dialog. The application is a WPF desktop app and traditi...

Using a "hyperlink" effect in Winforms applications

What do people think about using pretend hyperlinks, in Winforms apps? Example: In my example you would click "into" the Organisation record card for Acme Corp Inc or "into" the details of the next appointment. If we ignore, for the moment, how the user edits the Organisation or adds/removes an appointment, is it a sensible UI in W...

I want all columns(<td></td>) in a <table></table> have the equal length, how to achieve this?

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how to organize code for different "mobile device interfaces" and "desktop interfaces"

I am planning for a web application. I am using the PHP framework Kohana with Smarty. My web application will also have mobile device interface. Now, there will be lot of common and lot of separate code for the two interfaces. How should I organize the the code so that: There is no duplication of code. Unnecessary code does not get lo...

python twisted stdio multiple connections to a server with a command prompt for interaction

Hi, I have written a simple twisted application that connects to a server that listens on 1 or more ports. The twisted app connects to this server and usually connects to a few of the open ports at a time. This server is a serial logger that connects to serial devices and provides the serial line information through a raw TCP Socket an...

An Emacs alternative which exposes a text model to a scriptable environment?

Hello, everybody out there! I'm currently seeking for a technical solution to create a nice literate programming environment. Unfortunately, most editors are too much hard coded, and their functionalities just cover most famous needs, and can't cleanly cover special needs. I came to Emacs (later after some others), but I also came to n...

WPF UI Thread Status

I have a wpf application that takes ~30 seconds to create a map/graphic. I have read there is no easy way to tie into the UI rendering thread to get a progress update. So I was going to use a counter on a value converter which colors my map but that is also on the UI Thread, so my question is has anyone found any slick methods of worki...

Autostart download of file on website?

How do i automaticly start a file for download when a user clicks a link? For example when a user clicks a link that allows them to download a image. Like it works on www.iStockphoto.com ...

UI performance monitoring tools

I am looking for a tool that lets you monitor/log page rendering time on client machines. I am not looking for firebug/yslow because i want to know the following type of things: How does fast do my pages load when the user is in russia? How long does it take for javascript to run on some pages for everyone who accesses those pages? S...

A better design of this SQL query builder UI.

I'm in the process of redesigning a SQL query builder UI for a application that I use, well it's a third party app but has a plugin model so I writing my own to replace the standard one. One area I am not very good at when it comes to application design is the UI. I would be really interested to see/hear how other people would layout t...

How to display validation after the form has been generated via Ajax

I'm struggling to find the best way to display validation messages after a form which has been generated via ajax is submitted. Let me explain better: I've got a page that starts with a few options. Based on what the user selects from dropdowns and by adding new fields, the form is created and at the end the form is submitted. The probl...

Test Automation Framework

I was wondering what would be a good UI to specify test cases. Currently we use macros with excel to specify our test cases and generate an xml out of it and export it to the script generator. Excel is good and really flexible and allows testers to enter their test cases very quickly. However the xml generated is sometimes not well f...

mouse pointer and thumb nail for selection

What would be the appropriate way for selecting a particular row in a paginated view. For example, while trying to select a particular row in Yahoo Inbox you can use the pointer to select the check box and if you try to click beyond the check box, no action is taken. But while trying to select a particular row in GMail Inbox you can us...

Adding fields until screen is full

For the sake of this question, let us suppose that I want a row of buttons. I want to put as many buttons in that row as I can fit on the screen, but no more. In other words, as long as a prospective button will not be cut off or have its text shortened, add it. It seems that I should be able to do something like: HorizontalFieldManage...

Can / Should MVC be used on a SVN or HG type CLI application?

Can / Should MVC be used on a SVN or HG type CLI application? If so, how might one go about this? I've been trying to come up with a design and I've come to the conclusion that MVC and HG/SVN type interface simply doesn't work together; that they serve separate purposes. Just to be clear, what I mean by the Hg/SVN type interface is i...

Can i do this in java desktop application?

I want to make a program java desktop . I have 2 table, "Table 1" and "Table 2". When i press "Button 1" in table box is showing "Table 1" and when i press "Button 2" "Table 2" is showing. Anyone can tell me how to do that? Thx ...

Interface builder/Objective C problem

Hi. I'm trying to create an application in interface builder, and I'm having a problem. What I want is to create a screen with an image, together with a sectionIndexTitlesForTableView bar. When the sectionIndexTitlesForTableView bar is touched, I want the image to disappear (and never reappear again), and to jump directly to the select...