How do you handle update refresh rate ?
How do you handle update refresh rate from your worker function to your UI ? Sending everything to the UI or maybe using a timer (from which side ? worker or UI ?) ...
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Humble dialog vs MVC
Why should I choose to use one instead of the other and in which cases? I mainly focus on desktop applications and personally speaking I do find the humble dialog box more easy and natural to use. ...
What is the best way to do GUIs in Clojure?
What is the best way to do GUIs in Clojure? Is there an example of some functional Swing or SWT wrapper? Or some integration with JavaFX declarative GUI description which could be easily wrapped to s-expressions using some macrology? Any tutorials? ...
Worst UI You've Ever Used
What is the worst user interface you've ever had to use? One that made you want to somehow locate the creators over the internet, personally fly to their location, and then beat them severely with a large trout. What made it so terrible? Was it too many screens, ill-marked buttons, or just really annoying dialog boxes showing up everyw...
How to add "Select Data Source" to my Excel appliation?
I need the "Select Data Source" dialog added to my application so that the user can manually select a range (or ranges) in Excel and the range is pasted in my text box. This functionality is everywhere in Excel (most notably when selecting a range for a chart). How can I easily do this? ...
How do I provide a runtime form designer for my end user?
I would like to create a report designer that has the same functionality and ease of use as the Visual Studio IDE. The ability to drag controls onto a form, select various subsets of those controls, align left, evenly space, etc. The only tools I have ever encountered are really bad. Crystal Reports, the MS Access report crapola, Com...
Java data grid control
Are there any third party enterprisey data grid controls out there, alla JIDE Data Grid? Is there a website like torry.net that lists third party java controls? Google doesn't turn up much for and I thought there would be a lot of both considering how popular java seems to be. TIA ...
Approaches to creating the View for "Humble Dialogs"
I have a bunch of questions to post regarding the issue of separating the view from logic when creating a GUI. The following is a minimal example of what I would do for a simple dialog that has a label and a button using the "Humble Dialog" approach. Pressing the button should show some text on the label. I have used C++ an Qt that I am ...
Any designers or libraries for creating "Vista-style" web pages?
I'm looking for a way to create websites with the cool stylings of Windows Vista, like what is shown in this screenshot (taken from one of Microsoft's websites): Any suggestions? I'd prefer an integrated designer / IDE, but libraries or templates might also help. ...
What's, in your opinion, the best ANT front-end GUI?
Tell me what you think... Would be nice if it's free... ...
Copying content from a hidden or clipped window in XP?
I need to copy the content of a window (BitBlt) which is hidden, to another window. The problem is that once I hide the source window, the device context I got isn't painted anymore. ...
app GUI similar to Control Panel in Vista
I was playing a bit with Windows Vista (still using XP) and I liked how the standard Control Panel worked. Do you think this design is good also for normal applications? I like the idea of showing main topics with large fonts + icons. Details within each main topic are displayed using a small font and are immediatelly accessible without...
What's a good example of a (web) user interface for a graph structure (in the CS sense of graph, nodes, edges)?
Like, let's say I had a tree structure, then I would use, naturally a tree control, since that GUI element maps perfectly to the structure. But what I have is a graph, potentially too wide to fit in one web page. I can't think of examples of GUIs that really match the structure. Some ideas I have that don't quite fit are, the web itse...
Java GUI LayoutManagers
I'm busy with an asignment where i have to make a graphical interface for a simple program. But i'm strugling with the layout. This is the idea: What is the easiest way to accomplish such a layout? And what method do you use to make layouts in java. Just code it, or use an IDE like netbeans? ...
Netbeans GUI Designer & Fixed-Size Application Panels
I'm having a problem, creating a fixed-size overall panel for a touchscreen GUI application that has to take up the entire screen. In a nutshell, the touchscreen is 800 x 600 pixels, and therefore I want the main GUI panel to be that size. When I start a new GUI project in NetBeans, I set the properties of the main panel for min/max/pr...
Verify sorting in Selenium
Hi! Has anyone tested sorting with Selenium? I'd like to verify that sorting a table in different ways work (a-z, z-a, state, date etc.). Any help would be very much appreciated. /Göran ...
How can I dynamically alter the Java LAF UIDefaults?
I'm working on cusomizing a Swing application by dynamically altering the UIDefaults. The end goal is to alter many of them (colors, fonts, sizes, borders, etc) and save the result on a per user basis. While it may give the application some non-standard looks, the client asketh and the client shall receive. The only problem I'm running ...
Which language for a quick GUI app + sqlite database CRUD (2-4 tables)
Which language for quick GUI app + sqlite database CRUD (2-4 tables). Java, Python? (Please no jokes like VBasic), some reference, source code to look on? added: First idea: 1 database SQLite (Win) + client GUI app (Win) clients table + orders table + others import, export database add, del, edit, etc. entries Second idea: 1 hosted da...
WPF ComboBox Item tabbing behaviour
I am migrating some win forms panels to WPF. In WinForms, you can tab into to the combo box using the keyboard, select an item by typing the first character and then hit tab again and the combo to lose focus. In WPF the second tab will move the focus rectangle down the list, instead of moving onto the next control. Is there a way to g...
Cross Resolution Applications in .NET
We are developing a little in house application that will run on monitor having multi resolutions. Now we want that the application should adjust itself and remain consistant over all monitors. I came from Java background too where we used different layouts to accomplish the task. I experimented in .NET with different layouts like UniGri...