gui

Which programming language is most fit for implementing a windows form dialog?

And how? I want to implement an simple enough dialog with several buttons. ...

GUI Design - ComboBoxes Versus Lists or RadioButtons

When should some GUI elements be used over others? For instance, how do you choose between a ComboBox, RadioButtons, or Listbox? For instance, I have seen ComboBoxes used for as many as two items and radio buttons for two items as well, on the same panel. How do you maintain a constant, intuitive GUI interface that is not confusing to th...

osx mysql gui with plain text output?

Is there an osx mysql gui, which can run a script containing multiple statements, and will display the plain text output from the database, rather than in an excel like grid? I want to be able to see error messages and multiple sets of data all in the same window as I can when using the windows sql server client. Sequel pro seems to ge...

Android: Clickable hyperlinks in AlertDialog

What I am trying to accomplish is to have clickable hyperlinks in the message text displayed by an AlertDialog. While the AlertDialog implementation happily underlines and colors any hyperlinks (defined using <a href="..."> in the string resource passed to Builder.setMessage) supplied the links do not become clickable. The code I am cur...

How do I install Ruby Shoes?

A lot of information seems stale since _why took his toys and went home, yet I would love to use it as a educational tool for my family. Thanks. ...

C++ Books About Custom GUIs (winapi)

I'm looking for some books that will teach me how to create a custom GUI interface using the winapi. What I want to create is something that looks like this http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/2601/image1eal.png I don't want to use any libraries like GTK or QT, I want to do it from scratch so I can learn. I've looked everywhere on googl...

Does Qt Extended Support...

I am evaluating Embedded Linux GUI toolkits for an upcoming project and have put together a must have “feature list” to help me with the decision: Color gradients in graphics (for menu headers buttons, icons, etc…) The ability to draw complex wave graphics with say a background grid, notations. The ability to swap between to landscape ...

Java Swing: Generating dynamic GUI forms from XML

Hi, I am writing this application in Java, where I have a JTree on the left of the JFrame, and the item selected in the JTree determines what appears on the right. This is similar to Edit --> Preferences in Thunderbird, and several other applications' preferences. Anyhow the main difference is that in my app the stuff on the right is d...

access to standalone app with more stable database

Hi, Does anyone have experience of rapidly translating an access application into a standalone windows application? My current thoughts are to create an SQL database and a gui in c# and vb, or adobe flex 3. As with acces, the GUI would mainly comprise of controls such as radio buttons, combo box (populated from a table), check boxes, t...

Cannot understand how to get data from checklistbox in wxpython

I am trying to get either the strings checked or the integers from a check list. I cannot seem to get it anywhere. In the code below, you'll see a bunch of un-commented code, those are just different ways I've tried. I thought I would leave them in case any one's suggestions have to do with it. I am very new to GUI-programming and wx. Th...

Red X GUI crash! I almost gave up on solving it!

I am facing a complex bug with the Dundas Charting for Winforms tool used with MS Visual Studio 2008 C#. The following error occurs when a GUI event is raised on the Chart object while it’s invalidating. When the error happens the dundas chart shows a big X mark. ... ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentOutOfRa...

Blackberry - Auto scroll vertical field manager

How can I programatically scroll a screen in a specific direction without changing focus. For eg. as we scroll down to a Feed in FaceBook app, it automatically scrolls the screen to fit all the text in the center of the screen. Can this be done in Blackberry Java Development ? Thanks. Afzal ...

Java GUI and Multiple Instances of the SwingWorker Class

I'm making a GUI using Java (who isn't?). I know the Swing Worker class enables computation in the background to prevent the GUI from hanging, but I was wondering if there could be too much of a good thing here... For instance, if there were too many instances of those background threads running, would it impact the performance of th...

GUI for serial port using java

Hi geeks, I am explaining my full problem. So I am building one GUI for a device connected to my PC using serial port. I am using javacomm apis and eclipse as my tools. For writing data to serial port I am using thread and for reading I will use a thread or EventListener. So now my question is if I am sending any command to serial port ...

Best GUI Framework for Ruby. Not Shoes.

Hello everyone. I am trying to settle on a GUI framework for Ruby and I have yet to decide which one I prefer and would like some input. I mainly want to pick the framework with the most support and community involvement. I have shied away from Shoes because the site is down and because I would like some challenge and understanding of w...

Problem in Java GUI

Before reading about my problem, first look at this GUI Diagram. There are three bars at the top as follows: one having buttons "pictorial view", "textual view" etc. second having buttons "processes", "organisation" etc. third having buttons "application to processes" etc. After that two information bars are there. After that a can...

Java GUI Toolbar

I am developing a Java Desktop Application. In that I want some toolbars at the top of the JFrame (as in usual GUI appllications). I want to allow user to add/remove toolbars dynamically by clicking on some buttons. How can I implement this (through any Layouts or some other way) so that when a user add/removes a toolbar, the rest of th...

Dynamically adding toolbars in Java Swing GUI

I am developing a Java Desktop Application. In the GUI, I want that user can add as many toolbars dynamically as he wants. To implement this, the following are the things that I have done already: Have taken a mainPanel and set its layout as BorderLayout Then taken a topPanel and added it to the mainPanel's BorderLayout.NORTH set the t...

Java Swing GUI - Problem

I have created a GUI in Java using swings with the help of Netbeans IDE. Now the problem is when I click on "Preview Design", the look and feel of the GUI is that of my O.S i.e Windows XP but when I click on "Run" button to run the application, then the look and feel of the GUI is metalic. How can I set the tone of the GUI. (It would b...

Is there a catalog of all UI widgets and their names, platforms and languages?

I was looking at the Firefox Add-ons Manager UI (pictured below) and really liked the expandable list used to show settings or properties for each add-on. I liked it enough to want to include something similar in one of my applications. The problem is, I don't know, exactly what the control is called (it doesn't seem to be "expanda...