Free set of forms, icons, styles, etc for web-based admin interfaces
Is there any free set of forms, icons, styles, images, etc for building web-based admin interfaces? If yes, which is the best? ...
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How to be successful in web user interface testing ?
We are setting up a Selenium test campaign on a big web application. The first thing we've done was to build a framework which initialize SQL data in database before the test, launch the test, archive results and then clear data. We've integrate that in a Maven 2 process, run every day by TeamCity on a dedicated database. We've set up ...
Scrollable JDesktopPane?
I'd like to add scrolling capability to a javax.swing.JDesktopPane. But wrapping in a javax.swing.JScrollPane does not produce the desired behavior. Searching the web shows that this has been an issue for quite some time. There are some solutions out there, but they seem to be pretty old, and I'm not not completely satisfied with them. ...
Keeping GUIs responsive during long-running tasks
Hello, Keeping the GUI responsive while the application does some CPU-heavy processing is one of the challenges of effective GUI programming. Here's a good discussion of how to do this in wxPython. To summarize, there are 3 ways: Use threads Use wxYield Chunk the work and do it in the IDLE event handler Which method have you found ...
AVI Animations for GUI
Hello I need to get some AVI animations for use with the Borland VCL TAnimate component, to display during operations such as 'online update', 'burning cd' and a few others. I have only come across the glyFX Animation Pack so far. Can anybody recomend other places to get nice avi animations? Thanks in advance. ...
Ext.form.FormPanel and form submission
Hello. I've been trying to submit a form with the FormPanel using the Action class Ext defaults to. However, I'd like it to consider the response as a script, not JSON-encoded. Has anyone had any experience on this? ...
Python GUI Application redistribution
I need to develop a small-medium sized desktop GUI application, preferably with Python as a language of choice because of time constraints. What GUI library choices do I have which allow me to redistribute my application standalone, assuming that the users don't have a working Python installation and obviously don't have the GUI librari...
Stuff in Windows Form Move When Maximized - C#
It's been a while since I've programmed a GUI program, so this may end up being super simple, but I can't find the solution anywhere online. Basically my problem is that when I maximize my program, all the things inside of the window (buttons, textboxes, etc.) stay in the same position in the window, which results in a large blank are...
Tools for creating a user interface prototype.
I need to create a prototype of a user interface. I'm googling, and find "Axure RP", but it is very expensive for our company. Another way for creating a user interface prototype is tools like Qt Designer, but it doesn't provide some cool functions and sometimes demand a bit of programming skills. Do you know a freeware tool for my tas...
What GUIs exist for Git on Windows
I use Subversion via TortoiseSVN but I hear good things about Git. Are there any similar tools available for Git on Windows? Feel free to answer with tools which still in early development. ...
http/AJAX (GWT) vs Eclipse gui for thin client deployment
I am starting a project for which we will have a thin client, sending requests and getting responses from a server. We are still in the planning stages, so we have a choice to settle on either an Eclipse based GUI (Eclipse plugin) or using GWT as a fromtend for the application. I am not very familiar with Eclipse as a GUI (Nor with GWT...
How do I build a WPF application where I can drag and drop a user control between windows?
I'm building a simple Todo List application where I want to be able to have multiple lists floating around my desktop that I can label and manage tasks in. The relevant UIElements in my app are: Window1 (Window) TodoList (User Control) TodoStackCard (User Control) Window1 looks like this: <Window x:Class="TaskHole.App.Window1" xm...
What are some good pop-up dialog boxes for Ruby on Rails
I want to use modal pop-up windows in our web app in Ruby on Rails. Note that I don't want to create a new browser window, but a sub-window inside the existing webpage. We've tried things like TinyBox, but there are issues with returning error information from inside the controller. Any good method or tool that works well in ruby? ...
What languages have a good GUI API/Designer?
I've been wanting to become proficient in a new language for a while. There are a few languages I want to learn but it's pretty important for me to be able to create a (Application) GUI. I work in C# so I have become very accustom to the GUI designer. I would love to get better with C++ or Java (both of which I have a small amount of e...
How to implement find as you type on a TComboBox descendant
What is the correct way to implement the "find as you type" behavior on a TComboBox descendant component whose style is csOwnerDrawFixed? ...
SWT Link flickers with gradient background
I'm developing a an eclipse plugin that uses an SWT interface. I need to display text, and within that text there needs to be links. The only two widgets that I've found that will allow me to include clickable links in text are Link and Browser. Browser, however, is overkill for my needs, and I couldn't properly customize the look of ...
Reading Comma Delimited File and Putting Data in ListView - C#
Alright, I'm trying to read a comma delimited file and then put that into a ListView (or any grid, really). I have the delimiting part of the job taken care of, with the fields of the file being put into a multidimensional string array. The problem is trying to get it into the ListView. It appears that there isn't a real way of adding...
How do you decide if a project should be web-based or desktop-based?
I'm having trouble deciding if I want a project of mine to be web-based (as in a web-app), desktop-based (a desktop application), or a desktop application that can sync or connect to the cloud. I don't know if anyone else would have an interest in this application, and it's only going to be for me, so I'm leaning toward desktop applicat...
Overcoming Windows User Object Handle Limit
I'm looking for advanced strategies for dealing with User Object Handle limits when building heavy-weight windows interfaces. Please explain how you overcame or bypassed this issue using SWT or direct Windows GUI APIs. The only thing I am not interested in is strategies to optimize widget usage as I have done this extensively and it do...
Flowlayout panel not display the scroll bar after some resizes.
I have a flowlayout panel and on a resize event, I resize all the controls inside the flowlayout panel so they the width of the (flowlayoutpanel - padding - scroll bar width). On some resizes, the scroll bar is not shown, hiding most of the controls outside the area of the flowlayoutpanel while on other resizes the scroll bar is shown.I...