I have a winforms application where users will be creating stock items, and a time of creation there are a number of different things that need to happen. I think the UI for this should probably be a wizard of some kind, but I'm unsure as to the best way to achieve this. I have seen a couple of 3rd party Wizard controls, and I have also...
I'm writing a wizard for an Eclipse RCP application. After doing some processing on a file and taking some user input, I don't want to let the user go back to make changes. At this point they must either accept or reject the changes they are about to make to the system. What I can't seem to find is a method call that lets me override ...
I'm looking for a wizard library/framework for Java, but it seems all the ones I can find are abandoned and/or lacking in enough documentation to use quickly. Here's the ones I've found, and all appear to be no longer maintained. Java Wizard Framework SwingLabs Wizard Swing Wizard Framework I tried using SwingLab's Wizard, but I ran ...
I'm looking to add one or two wizards (you know, a simple dialog with multiple pages that walks a user through a process, step by step) to my WinForms application. I'm just curious of what controls -- whether they be third-party or you rolled your own -- you used to accomplish this? ...
I'm making a program that fits the wizard concept ideally; the user is walked through the steps to create a character for a game. However, I'm realizing that the limitations of the wizard are making it difficult to design "elegant" logic flow. For example, because all pages of the wizard are initalized at the same time, I can't have the...
Wizards can kick-start features. They can also obfuscate your code, and are anti-YAGNI. On balance, do you think Wizards are more useful or more harmful? ...
We have a bunch of different applications that basically do the same thing written using the Wizard Control for .Net 2.0. At this point there are roughly 10 or so of those applications. The steps are pretty simple: User selects option from a drop downs -> Next page has more options more narrowed -> User sees confirmation page -> Rep...
I need to create a wizard for a Flash 9/ActionScript 3.0 application. The wizard would be a set of dialogs/windows for each step and the buttons "back/next/cancel" for navigation through the wizard. Within the Adobe CS3 authoring environment there does not seem to be a straightforward way to create a set of dialogs or windows that would...
I have a pretty simple app on the web (written in Flex) which is very straightforward to use once it has data inside it. The steps to get data inside it are themselves also pretty simple, but not at all obvious to my audience when they first log into my app. I have been wrestling with how to communicate the data setup process to my u...
After upgrading our web application to .NET 3.5 we noticed a strange issue with the Wizard control. Usually after IIS is restarted and a page with the control is loaded, the left hand navigation pane will not be displayed. Hitting this page again will solve this issue. It is also visible in dev environment, although it is intermittent an...
I've got a wizard control that databound controls on each step. I can't databind them all at once because they are dependent on the previous step. So, essentially what I've got at each step is a save to the database of the previous step, and an initialization of the current step. Are there any recommendations as to how best to organize ...
What is a good/simple way to create, say a five page wizard, in Python, where the web server component composes the wizard page content mostly dynamically by fetching the data via calls to a XML-RPC back-end. I have experienced a bit with the XML-RPC Python module, but I don't know which Python module would be providing the web server, h...
I want to build a shop in which the products have a little wizard through which the price then is determined. In this case I'm talking about printing products. So for (a little) example when you come to the shop and want to print a business card, you get to decide if you want to print black and white or in color, if you want to choose t...
Is their any wizards or tools to create and test regular expressions for PHP, because it is so difficult :( ? thanks :) ...
I am using the code given here to create my own wizard application. The basic motive of moving from 1 screen to other is achieved with this. But now I am stuck at a point. The problem is... suppose I have entered some value on screen1 and then I move to screen2.. and on basis of values entered in screen1 I have to display some values o...
I'm creating a Wizard control (in Flex) and wanted to look at some examples of good Wizard controls in .NET, Java or other languages. I'm especially interested in situations where next/prev steps are determined by the input of the current step. For instance, choosing one of several options in the start screen will lead you to different ...
I have a customer using the Access 97 runtime to support part of their product. Ideally, given the budget to do so, I would have replaced that dinosaur by this point, but that isn't an option today. I am not the system's original author, but am attempting to provide ongoing support. To distribute this to their customers, they bought the...
I'm looking to add a feature to one of my apps that allows the user to select a data source similar to how Microsoft Word mail merge does. I'm wondering if there is something out there which I could use in a commercial application. If not, any suggestions on how to roll my own (i.e., how to look at the machines data source list)? Also...
I know there is a Wizard control available but what I want is so simplistic I cannot figure out where I started veering off the deep end here. When a user puts in their name and hits next I want the calendar control to become selecatable for a start date. I have the ability to mark the start date as green. I want them to select away u...
I'm in search of a glorious reporting tool. I'm aware that glorious is a subjective term but... here are my desires: Dead simple for business types Does not require me to speficy any SQL Can inspect the database's schema to interpret the users requests without programmer intervention Costs next to nothing Can save commonly crafted repo...