I have just finished my first real commercial application written in C++ / MFC. The application consisted of agent installed on users workstations which in turn was controlled from a GUI Application on an administrators workstation. I choose C++ / MFC for these reasons. Because I didn't know C# Because I was not sure how long it w...
Hello all, This lot has proved EXTREMELY helpful in the past so I thought I would pose a question with a more open ended answer. I am going to be starting my M.S. in Graphic Information Technology Thesis and I need a topic. I am a web designer and front-end developer working full time in that industry. My adviser prefers we bit off a pi...
I have a Perl command line program, for which a GUI is required. I see that this is mostly done using GTk. However we would like to do this in Java as we would like to re-use for another desktop application. Are there any issues in following the Java approach. What would you recommend? ...
I have a dialog that includes file selection and it has a "Browse..." button. But it seems like it would be a good idea to provide some kind of drop target so that the user can use his/her favorite file browser to select a file (or files) and drag it onto my application. Is there any standard practice for what to use as a drop target? ...
Hi StackOverFlow Family I've develop a Java Swing application but I want to improve the design of my Swing frames. I search for this issue in google, but i cant find an adequate solution. Please share your experiences and opinions regarding this issue. p.s. Maybe this question is not good for you but it is important for me an...
I have a datagrid with many columns. This makes it pretty wide. Now we want to add more information to the table. Aside from removing or shortening existing columns what are some ways we might be able to add additional information without adding new columnes. The data we want to add would be one of several values. For example: Proje...
Hello, I'm trying to stack three buttons vertically onto a JOptionPane using createDialog, but it's not quite working with a GridLayout. Also, I'm not sure how to get rid of the 'OK' button as well. You're probably wondering why I am doing it this way, but this is the way I was told to do it. I think I can use a JFrame, but I don't think...
Hi friends, Do anyone know maximum how many screen we can push in an UiApplication without calling popscreen() and what will be the maximum file size of each screen class. Thanks as Regards Mintu ...
I know this is partially subjective, but hopefully with enough specifics I can get a good answer. I am looking to develop an accounting app targeted at a specific market segment (think Quickbooks, but tweaked). Most of the app will be editable tables that are linked with DB data and some basic reporting and graphic functionality. It mu...
Which GUIs would be used in vehicles for radios, gps devices, infotainment systems? ...
In our primary application, we have a form that will allow us to do cross tab analysis of data in four different ways. Presently, each analysis appears in its own page of a PageControl on the screen. Now, upper management would like us to add in a historical aspect to the form, which in other areas we would use a PageControl to do, but...
Hi, I work a lot with look and feel in java and it works well but the only problem that the only component that has no change is the title bar(caption) still have the same native look and feel of os(windows platform as example) i want to know what's is the reason and how to fix this? any body help.......... thanks in advance ...
I am interested in the Python one. I wish to automate some GUI under Windows. What is the best open source library for that with no strings attached? Thanks. ...
I'm trying to make it so that as long as a user is touching the button, it shows one image, and when the user releases the button, it goes back to a default image. I'm trying to use a selector to make this happen: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item and...
I am using Python 3.1 by the way. I am trying to build a simple GUI using Tkinter - label, text entry field, button on the first row and editable text area with scrollbar to the right and on the bottom of it - on the second row. Please help me fix up the layout. What I have below does not quite work. If I have to use a grid, I will. I w...
I am developing a Windows Forms application in C#. I am using the MVP design pattern. In the GUI the user can manipulate printer objects, and there needs to be custom controls that represent the printer objects to the user. There is a class hierarchy that represents the printers. At the base there is an abstract Printer class. Then ...
Hi Everyone, I'm coding a JTable that is capable of handling frequent updates. Typically this JTable has ~1000 rows of data, and some of the columns will update frequently because their values are derived from stock price which moves a lot during market hours. The problem I'm facing is that when large # of rows (e.g. 80%) are updati...
Hello all i like to build desktop application , that will be must user friendly in view what i mean is that the look and feel will be natural in the way the user used to see windows apps . and this toolkit/framework to be as much as possible easy fast to develop from the developer side in c++ . ...
Hi all, I am not getting clear about the concept of getPreferredWidth() and getPreferredHeight() methods. What do they return means on what what basis the values are returned.?? What is difference between getWidth() and getPreferredWidth()??? Thank you.. ...
Hey Guys Can you help me out here? A really simple problem but I just can't get what the solution is! I am coding a listener application that runs on its own thread & listens on a ServerSocket for incoming connections. When a connection arrives, a new 'Message' object is created on a new thread and passed the incoming text data "messa...