I want to develop a windows application. If I use native C++ and MFC for user interface then the application will be very fast and tiny. But using MFC is very complicated. Also If I use C# then the application will be slower than the native code and It reqiures .NET framework to run. But developing GUI is very easy by using WinForm. Whic...
Has anyone seen or used a third party .NET GUI component for implementing the sliding window/dialog effect seen in Winamp when using the Modern Skin and clicking on the Config button that opens the Configuration Drawer? ...
How would one create fancy UIs in .NET, with glossy buttons and smooth animations? You can point me to 3rd party frameworks, but I would like to understand the technical details also. ...
Hi, How can I know in a C#-Application, in which direction the screen of the mobile device is orientated? (i.e. horizontal or vertical). ...
What is the best way to use ListView and a set of GroupBoxes as an Options window? For example, Listview will have items such as General, Sounds, Shortcuts and there will be three groupboxes defining those same things. What would be the best programmatical way to navigate through them everytime an item in the listview is selected? Hid...
Hi, I'm looking for a way to display multiple colors in a single C#/.NET label. E.g the label is displaying a series of csv separated values that each take on a color depending on a bucket they fall into. I would prefer not to use multiple labels, as the values are variable length and I don't want to play with dynamic layouts. Is the...
I saw this the other day (scroll all the way down to see some of the clever stuff): http://www.mono-project.com/CsharpRepl And wondered whether something like this exists for Python. So, is there a good Python GUI shell that can do stuff like that C# shell can do? Edit: Here are links to screenshots from the article, showing wha...
Is it worth to try to keep your GUI within the system looks ? Every major program have their own anyways... (visual studio, iexplorer, firefox, symantec utilities, adobe ...) Or just the frame and dialogs should be left in the system look 'n feel range ? update: One easy exemple, if you want to add a close button to your tab, usually...
The question title pretty much says it all. When should I put ... at the end of a menu item? I seem to remember reading some rules but can't for the life of me find them. For context - I'm adding a properties option to a right click menu and am wondering if it is appropriate to add them. regards ...
How do I make a GUI for my python program because now it only runs in Idle and a command line and what software packages can I use and where can I get them? Thanks. ...
What is the best program to use to make a python GUI? I am new to the Python GUI programming and I have only used easygui so far, but it is not really what I want. Is there anything better? answered ...
I am having a peculiar problem with the order in which FlowLayoutPanels are added in to the form's controls property. This is what I tried, I added 7 FlowLayoutPanels in to a C# window application from left to right in vertical strips. Then I tagged the flow layouts as 1, 2, 3, ... 7 again from left to right. Now in the load handler of ...
I have a collection of items that the user needs to group/categorize in several ways. For the sake of an example, let's say it's a collection of cars and the user wants to categorize them in the following ways: Color (red, silver, blue, black, etc.) Body shape (hatch, sedan, coupe, stationwagon, etc.) Seats (2, 4, 5, 6, etc.) etc. Ha...
Which GUI framework/library would you choose if you were to start your new project now or in the near future? It has to be free for commercial use and cross platform. I have been a happy swing user, but Sun seems like pushing swing to deprecation, while pushing Javafx, which is not yet ready for prime time. There's also SWT, but it se...
What are some key UI design tips that every developer should know? While there are a number of UI resources for developers (for example, Joel Spolsky's User Interface Design for Programmers), I'm interested in more of a bullet list that can be communicated in 1 to 2 pages. I'm interested in more tactical, day-to-day UI tips, as opposed...
Is there any IDE (like VS) with drag and drop support for building python GUI, connecting to dbs etc? Eventhough I am an emacs guy, I find it much easier to create GUI with VS. ...
I am making a small game number game in Java (Nim) in OS X and was thinking about trying to make the GUI interface of the game using something other than Swing. I looked at SWT, but I read somewhere that SWT has some problems with OS X. I also looked at GTK+ bindings for Java, but I am not sure if that's a good choice either. Do you guys...
What I'd like to do is produce an HTML/CSS/JS version of the following. The gridlines and other aspects are not important. It's more of a question how to do the background databars. ...
Hello, We wish to provide people to be able to add some logic to their accounts(say, given a few arguments, how to compute a particular result). So, essentially, this would be tantamount to writing simple business rules with support for conditionals and expressions. However, the challenge is to provide them a simple online editor where ...
I'm working on an online tool for students in my faculty to calculate their final grade for their degrees, and for a while I've had little problems. Students seem to like using the new UI and I've suffered no criticism for a while. Now, I need to add some functionality to the program, meaning the UI will have to chance slightly, but in s...