user-interface

Tabs vs. Home Screen For Android Application?

I have an Android application that I've been working on, and it's implemented using tabs to separate the different functions that it performs. See the article here The above article talks about how instead of implementing the Twitter application using tabs they decided to go with a home screen and a tool bar because of some of the lim...

Gallery for IPhone UI controls

Is there any web-resource (gallery perhaps) showing all user interface elements made from UIView(or other?), so it will give me some quick idea what controls exist, what do they look like? ...

Implement Google Maps-like image dragging functionality?

I have a graph with 1000+ nodes that is fairly sparse. I would like to create a visualization of this graph, and let users drag around it, the same way that users can drag the image of Google or Bing maps around. Is there any service/toolkit/technology that exists to allow me to do this easily? Javascript? Silverlight? Flash/Flex? ...

JSF Template Designing in SUN RI_1.101

Hi everyone We are using JSF in UI.We need to develop Templates for designing.Can we develop templates in SUN RI1.1_01.If so,can any one tell me how to start? ...

multiple droppable

Ive have multiple droppable divs (which all have the same size) and one draggable div. The draggable div is 3 times bigger than one droppable. When I drag the draggable div on the droppables divs I want to find which droppable has been affeckted. My code looks like this: $(function () { $(".draggable").draggable({ drag: f...

iPhone UI: No edit button for UITableView, bad idea?

I have a UITableViewController which lets the user drill down into different records. On the second level/view, the user can add and edit new records. But, I am not sure what to do, since the back button is on the top left, and I need to put the "Add" button on the top right, so there is no room (keeping to HIG) for the edit button, wh...

UI Design, incase of numerous situations

Hi... I'm creating a web form, where in there are around 12-15 Input Fields... You can have a look at the screen and The request is such that depending on the data the user selects in the Gridview and the DropDown list, the appropriate Textboxes and CheckBoxes needs to be displayed. Some times the conditions are very direct, like wh...

jQuery slider - set background color to show desired range

Howdy, I'm setting up a Filament Group jQuery UI slider and using it in a gradebook. We need to allow teachers to set a desired background range (to show the desirable values vs. the actual value for a given grade). I'm hoping to set a shaded area (as shown in this picture) that would indicate to people viewing the slider which values ...

UI Design Tips and Tutorials for Android

Does anyone have any good pointers on designing the UI for an android application and some good practises? Obviously I'm aware of the basic principles involved with designing the layout in XML. Also, that you have a stack of activities. But I'm interested in some approaches to creating the interfaces and also how to design an applicat...

Could you recommand an image carousel?

I have a .NET 2.0 web project. I need a simple image carousel. What I would prefer is the main image on the top, and a scrolling bar with smaller images on the bottom. When the user hovers over or clicks the smaller image, it would popualte the larger image space. If you know of anything liek this, even 3rd party paid controls, please ...

CSS : How can I add shadow to a label or box

I have an button just as have Ask Question on SO and here is the CSS for it: .rfs .grey_btn{ float: right; margin: 15px 5px; } Now I have to add border shadow to it and I have tried border-radius and box-shadow but it does not give me proper result. Also other question is that I have a label or box say and now I want to increa...

UI Design - design pattern for city/country drop down? (ASP.NET MVC)

What is the best way to do a city/country dropdown pair in ASP.NET MVC? I see lots of places with country above city, but that's unnatural: in real life we write city/country. I've used city, then country, but the problem is that the user then has to go backwards after changing the country. The other problem is what do you do about cit...

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.UITestControlNotFoundException was unhandled by user code (VSTS 2010 on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009)

I am trying to automate the UI testing process using VSTS 2010 on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. Using coded UI test, I am recording tests on on Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. Recording works fine, it runs into issue when trying to run the test recorded on TreeView control in the application. Tests fails to execute on that control. Following ...

Getting started with Android...

Hi I'm generally coming from the C# Windows and Web development background, and I really want to start creating applications for the Android operating system. I have succeed to install Eclipse with the Android 2.2 SDK and to run the default Hello World application. Best way to learn is probably to do. What some applications can I cr...

Javascript library/framework/widget to allow user to move and resize divs on page

Hi, I am looking at creating a page that the user can move around as they please...very similar to iGoogle. But in addition, ideally, I want the user to be able to resize the components. I've done quite a bit with jQuery in the past am not against the idea of using that, seeing as it already has the draggable and resizable options, tho...

Calendar Control in Java

How can i control calendar user interface in java? My current project needs to provide calendar in web. User can control public holiday, block day and so on when client choose to book. So i need to provide calendar control with java. ...

Disable day dynamically after clicking it

I have used the BeforeShowDays method to disable days on page load for my datepicker in the past. What I would like now is to click on a day, and the day should become disabled (not clickable, as if I used the BeforeShowDays method on that day). Is there a way to accomplish this? ...

Jquery UI Tabs only reload the tab contents

<div id="example"> <ul> <li><a href="ahah_1.aspx"><span>Content 1</span></a></li> <li><a href="ahah_2.aspx"><span>Content 2</span></a></li> <li><a href="ahah_3.aspx"><span>Content 3</span></a></li> </ul> </div> I am using Jquery ui tabs in Ajax mode. When my page ahaha_1.aspx postbacks my main page ...

Android Activities UI Persistence

I need to have two activities in an Android app that can be switched between each other with UI persistence as follows: Activity A launches Activity B. User triggers some UI changes in Activity B. Activity B returns to Activity A (by a call to onBackPressed() or something similar) Activity A re-launches Activity B. I would like the c...

How do I have 1 UI thread wait for another UI thread

I have two UI threads. I want to make sure the first one is finishing running, and then run the other one. How could I do that? Thanks a lot! UIJob uiJob = new UIJob("settext1") { public IStatus runInUIThread(IProgressMonitor ipm) { webBrowser.setText(finalContent); return Status.OK_STATUS; } }; uiJob.schedule();...