hi i have made a vertical slider using the jquery to slide the text vertically. The text does move up and down when the handle of slider is moved but the handle itself is not moving ... i dont know what is going on out there?? Please somebody help me out!!! Here is the code: JS: $(document).ready(function(){ $("#content-slider").s...
I'm trying to modifty the Flex Tree control to allow a user to select multiple items by just clicking each of the desired elements (ie I don't want them to have to press Ctrl or Shift). If the user clicks a selected item a 2nd time, it will deselect it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks! ...
I am working on a fairly basic screen layout for my first Android application and running into some issues. My goal is to have a TextView in the top left and top right corner, a large "hello world" TextView in the exact middle of the screen, and then a button at the bottom of the screen. My issue is, to center the "hello world" TextVie...
Hi all, Working on an application that controls a remote robot where there is the potential for significant delay between pressing a button and that action actually happening. Furthermore, there is the potential that the command did not successfully reach the intended recipient after all (due to network unreliability, etc.). Additional...
Is tagging is the best user friendly way to categorize a subject? An example would be the tags mechanism used in this Q/A site /* forum */. (StackOverflow.com). How you would Implement categories in a best user friendly way? Or hierarchical categories are the best user friendly way to present available categories? Is there any online s...
In a small project of mine I've came across the need of a collapsible group box. Searching the Net, I've found one here. In one of the comments there's an improvement on the original code that uses the VisualStyleRenderer class in order to acquire the TreeView open and closed glyph. Running the code it draws properly the Plus and Minus...
I have a website which works with PHP on the server side. Users access pages and PHP does some calculations, writes data to a MySQL database etc. Imagine a user accesses a page where PHP creates an account for the user. The creation consists of two parts: inserting the registration data into the table "users" and inserting settings for...
In the programming of a table-based application module (i.e. the user mostly enters tabular data in an already laid-out table), how would you reject user input for a given cell? The scenario is: the user edits the cell, enters something (text, picture, ...) and you want them to notice when they finish editing (hitting enter, for example...
What is a best practice for storing user messages in a configuration file and then retrieving them for certain events throughout an application? I was thinking of having 1 single configuration file with entries such as REQUIRED_FIELD = {0} is a required field INVALID_FORMAT = The format for {0} is {1} etc. and then calling them from...
I am looking for a way to select multiple items within a JList by just clicking each item. The normal way to do this is to hold the command/ctrl key and then click. I think it would be more intuitive just to allow the user to click the items on and off without the need to hold an additional key. ...
I have a setup where the tab is expected to be loaded based on user selection of an item from a left panel tree. My objective is to load only the relevant items as per the user selection to a particular tab. The first time, I am able to add item as below: var tab = tabs1.getItem('Orders'); tab.remove(0); tab.add(pane33...
Hello, I'm designing a web application, which will support both standard UIs (accessed via browsers) and a RESTful API (an XML/JSON-based web service). User agents will be able to differentiate between these by using different values in the Accept HTTP header. The RESTful API will use the following URI structure (example for an "articl...
I am creating an application that will have a list of items that can be checked. I just implemented it as a Table View by subclassing UITableViewController. Now I am realizing that since individual items don't have a child view (i.e. clicking on an item "Dinner" does not need to pull up a child list of "Dinner Items") then maybe I shou...
In an ongoing attemt to reinvent the wheel only when necessary, I am looking for good examples of user interfaces for data selection for reports. I hope to see examples raising the bar above the following: ...
Say you had to quickly build a data-entry UI that works in a web browser, which must interface with a business layer, which must interface with a data layer. You want to connect only to business objects, not directly to the database. Most of the views of the UI will be simple CRUD operations, with edit/update happening within a grid. ...
Anyone know of a good book on Game Interface Design (not game play mechanics; the actual UI). I'm particular interested in theories of cognition, and how game interfaces are designed to allow the enduser efficient communication with the game (whether it in FPS, RTS, or so on). In a modern game, the amount of information conveyed to th...
Since more details about the planned Micorsoft Courier device came out last week, I've been thinking about development for such a device. Specifically I've been thinking about the implications of working with multiple screens. Admittedly most of the details of this device are still unknown but what is clear is that it will have 2 scree...
Hey! I have a textfield which displays a result but I don't want it to be accessible by the user as in I don't want the keyboard to come up. How would I go about that in text? ...
Hi, We have a WPF app that has a master/detail window, both being WPF Datagrids. When you select a row in the upper datagrid, the details are shown in the lower datagrid. I was wondering if there are any best practices from a UI perspective on how to deal with things such as: When the window first opens, no datarow is selected in the ...
I'm creating a Windows Mobile 6 application using MFC Single Document Interface with CFormView base class. I put CBitmapButton in the Form/Dialog resource and put them at the bottom. The CBitmapButtons fit nicely until a soft-keyboard appear or the application is covered by other applications. In such case, unwanted scroll bars appear ...