Hi guys I'm wanting to create a page that allows the users to select how they would like to view their data - i.e. summary (which supports grouping), grid (which supports grouping), table (which supports grouping), map, time line, xml, json etc. Now each layout would probably have different use a different view model, which inherit fr...
Hello, I wanted to create a notification without the icon in the status bar (the state that is not expanded). I tried the custom expanded view and set the icon for this view only. But it did not work. When I give 0 as icon to the constructor, the icon disappears but notification also does not appear in the expanded view. Notificatio...
I am trying to create a tool bar with background color different from the screen background, i am using the following code getMainManager().add(mToolbarManager = new HorizontalFieldManager()); mToolbarManager.add(mBtn = new BitmapButtonField(mBmpNor, mBmpFoc, mBmpAct)); Background bg = BackgroundFactory.cre...
How would you implement a user message stack in ASP.Net MVC? (you set messages for the user in any place inside your app. and they are shown as hints of your app to the user anywhere inside the app) I want to hear your ideas and thoughts. How would you do it? e.g.: ...
In my project I going to generate a user interface through programming. Scalability of this UI is very important requirement. So far I am using two dimensional graphics for generating the UI. I think there may be different solutions but for the moment I know only two. First one is supplying X,Y coordinates of each two dimensional graph...
Is there, by chance, an emerging Haskell UI framework for Windows? I recently took up looking over the language, and from what I see, it would be for great little "one-off" applications (elaborate scripts). However, without a good UI framework I can't see it getting in under the smoke and mirrors of the more obvious contenders. I've r...
AJAX is the big thing...but it seems (to me) that with Silverlight 4 Microsoft has offered a really robust method for creating UI interfaces for the web. I'm wondering - what is the future of AJAX? Do AJAX and Silverlight complement each other or will Silverlight replace AJAX, etc.? ...
I've come across Netbeans but is there any tools out there that lets you build things event driven ? I'm looking for a feature like being able to drag and drop UI components, and add methods to buttons directly by double clicking it (kinda like visualbasic) and viewing the source. ...
There are quite a few Lightbox implementations. Is there any such that it displays a larger version of the image as soon as the user enters the thumbnail with the mouse? The preview should be displayed next to mouse position. The shaded lightbox effect is not required. ...
I've got several nested classes, with the following structure: BackupLocation contains list of BackupClients BackupClients contains a list of BackupVersions BackupVersions contains a list of BackupFiles In my UI - Im populating a combo box with BackupLocations - and have several listboxes for the clients, versions, and files. When ...
I'm using an EDM object along with a dataGridView and bindingSource. After adding many (1000's) of new elements to my binding source/grid, a call to context.SaveChanges from a button click results in the UI hanging for many seconds. I've read that EDM objects are not thread-safe so I don't think I can put this task on a background work...
I am developing a filtering proxy for feeds (rightload.info). A key UI element is a link or equivalent embedded in each entry that allows the user to express an opinion such as "like" or "dislike". A design goal was to support the largest number of feeds and feed readers (and browsers since the most popular feed readers are web based). T...
i have built jQuery drop-down menu which is having problems floating over the UI header. Flash and everything else is fine, menu has no problem floating over anything except UI headers, i have tried messing with z-index in css files but it seems that jQuery script is over writing all of my css. the JS files are minified so i can not edit...
When designing a feature that can be accessed by different user levels, I'm wondering how the use of "enabled" versus "active" will work. If I'm an administrator, it means I have the ability to turn on and off a feature. Does this mean the feature is enabled for me or active? Once I turn this feature on, is it then enabled or active? Ter...
I am working on a framework for web based apps, including both UX guidelines and the art/graphic design guidelines such as what menus will look like, headers, colors, fonts etc. The UX designers I met, were unable to provide the artistic side, and the graphic designers didn't have the UX skills. Should I continue to look for one person...
Hey guys - I know this is not a strictly programming question but I'm building an application where users sign up to traffic alerts. I have the whole thing dusted but I haven't got an 'unregister button' I know its good UI to have one, but I was hoping if someone knew the legalities of the topic? The user can sign in and uncheck wha...
This will be quite a long way to ask my question, so please bear with me, I'm really interested in your opinion and need an advice. I would like to modify or convert an existing phpBB3 setup because my users don't like it anymore. They definitely don't like the (otherwise professional) design of the templates based on proSilver or subSi...
I'm designing user interface and want to ask your advises how to make it more user-friendly. Please tell any suggestions and if you have ever seen implementation of something familiar please share the link. University. There are 40+ specialities grouped into 5 faculties. User choose several he is interested in and than orders them by p...
In the settings on the iphone, there is text between some of the UITableView sections. Sometimes larger text, sometimes smaller text. How do I do this? I would like to know how to do the "Security" text, as well as the "Warn when visiting fraudulent websites." text. Ideas? ...
Hi, i've got a select box containing countries, and when one is selected, i want my autocomplete data for the city field to load via ajax. here's my code: // Sets up the autocompleter depending on the currently // selected country $(document).ready(function() { var cache = getCities(); $('#registration_city_id').autocomplete( ...