widgets

qt trouble overriding paintEvent

I'm subclassing QProgressBar in a custom widget, and I overwrote the paintEvent method with the following code : void myProg::paintEvent(QPaintEvent *pe) { QProgressBar::paintEvent(pe); QRect region = pe->rect(); QPainter *painter = new QPainter(this); QPen *pen = new QPen; painter->begin(this); painter->setBrus...

Need advice (GUI, widgets) - implement area selection on a plot

(I am new to GUI programming; experienced programmer otherwise) (Using wxPython; but generic advice welcome) I am looking for advice / direction on implementing a widget that can do area selection on a plot. Any pointers from experienced users would be much appreciated. What needs to be done is: Implement a two dimensional plot. Imp...

What are some good widgets to add to a programming related blog (on blogger.com)?

I decided to start my blog recently. Anyway I put it on blogger.com and was looking at the widgets you can add. There are some 100k+ of them. By the way, I tried to add the StackOverflow search widget and it complained it was broken. Anyway, I'm after some suggestions on good programming related widgets worth adding. ...

Need a creative idea: How can I search for all web sites that use a certain javascript library or widget?

All Search engines I know of search text. I want to search for example for all the sites that use jQuery. Any creative idea on how to do that? ...

ASP.Net MVC for developing widget based portals

How suitable ASP.Net MVC for developing anything like http://www.google.com/ig I haven't seen or failed to find any examples yet. Does MVC approach imply that user interface is not supposed to look like that ? ...

How to create a widget platform from scratch

We want to create a widget platform for a particular website. I couldn't find any articles on doing this, but what I need right now is for someone to point me in the right direction. What framework should we use? I am proficient with RoR, and okay with Java/.Net, but I don't know if doing this in rails is easy because I can't see how t...

Django widget HTML id

Hi all, In widget's code I need to get access to HTML id of the rendered element. I know I can run regexp on the rendered string and get the ID, but I believe there must be an easy way. Let's assume this is the widget I have: class TextInputWithHint(TextInput): ... def render(self, name, value, attrs): res = super(Tex...

adding javascript widget code the right way

I give customers javscript code that adds a widget to their website. Currently I ask them to paste this right above the </body> tag: <script type="text/javascript"> var myHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://" : "http://"); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + myHost + "www.mywebsite.com/mycode.js.php?u="+e...

Constraints on Dijit DateTextBox [Valid days of the week]

Quick question about the Dijit.Form.DateTextBox http://docs.dojocampus.org/dijit/form/DateTextBox This page contains the following: "also validates against developer-provided constraints like min, max, valid days of the week, etc." I can't seem to find documentation allowing me to provide a constraint on the days of the week. For ins...

How to calculate approximately the connection speed of a website using JavaScript?

How to calculate approximately the connection speed of a website using JavaScript? I want to create a javascript widget like, which will calculate the speed opening the current opened page. I am asking if this can be done using just javascript and what will be the idea. Update Note that the page size is always Unknown. ...

How to get current page size in KB using just javascript?

Referring to this question , how can i get the current page size in kb, this size i will use to know the connection speed for this page. ...

Best practices for writing javascript widgets

I have a JS script (widget) which is added to other websites. Technically its similar to Google analytics. My question is: what are your advices for ensuring robustness, keeping the code from interfering with other code on the site, avoiding errors for users etc. In general, what should I know to write a professional grade widget. Notes...

Persistent Dashboard Widget Preferences

I'm building a Dashboard Widget and I'm attempting to store preferences that persist across "sessions" (i.e., a user closing the widget and opening it again). I've tried: function setEmail(event) { var preferenceKey = "email"; var preferenceValue = $F("email"); widget.setPreferenceForKey(preferenceValue, preferenceKey); } function get...

MS MVC login widget.

Context In LAYOUT, i got 2 input fields and submit button. If user authentication is successfully, i want to redirect him somewhere, if not - i want page to be updated with some validation text. Problems Cause widget is supposed to be located in layout, i dont know which is current page, therefore - cant get back on failed authenticat...

Lazy loading the addthis script? (or lazy loading external js content dependent on already fired events)

I want to have the addthis widget available for my users, but I want to lazy load it so that my page loads as quickly as possible. However, after trying it via a script tag and then via my lazy loading method, it appears to only work via the script tag. In the obfuscated code, I see something that looks like it's dependent on the DOMCont...

Easy to use Isolated widgets on rails

I am developing a "game platform" on ruby on rails. It is not a 2D or 3D intensive game but more like quiz games, imagine typical Facebook quiz or even "how big is your brain" kind of games. The platform will be used by students here to develop easily their own ideas. The point is to create a series of widgets they can just place in the...

Best javascript libraries to work with rails?

I want to develop an application with simple Quiz-like games (think of a question , answer, a timer, high-scores/ranking, not much more) For that I want to use Rails and some javascript library that let me have some modern effects on the GUI (being a GUI the least you can ask is for an atractive interface) I first considered ExtJS but ...

Widget Framework Resources

So, my boss wants me to look into creating a widget for our product. Something to keep our users abreast of their information easily. So, I'm looking through the interwebs and it seems I have quite a few options. Google Widgets, Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets, Spring Widgets, etc. etc. I'm wondering if there's any resources to make a decisi...

Silverlight widgets cross-plateform?

Can I use Silverlight to build cross-platform desktop widgets? ...

Android: How to Create a Custom button widget

Hi, I would like to create a button with circular or rectangular background, text and an image below or above the text. Here is the CustomButton Layout where I added the objects (background and text - ImageView is missing): <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_height="wrap_content" ...