gui

hiding rows from JTable

I want to hide those rows from JTable containg a particular string....please help me for this.. ...

Why does Flex use a single threaded model?

Over the past few weeks I have been building a prototype application using a Flex front end connected to a J2EE backend using blazeDS. The prototype is an experiment to learn flex and see what its suitability is for a complex trading application requiring a large number of dynamic updates (i.e > 20 a second) via a pub sub type model. D...

Problems using wxWidgets (wxMSW) within multiple DLL instances

Preface I'm developing VST-plugins which are DLL-based software modules and loaded by VST-supporting host applications. To open a VST-plugin the host applications loads the VST-DLL and calls an appropriate function of the plugin while providing a native window handle, which the plugin can use to draw it's GUI. I managed to port my origi...

WinForms UI responsiveness when dealing with "heavy" data.

I'm modifying a windows form to allow data to be loaded in the background while the UI remains responsive. The data takes noticeable time to both retrieve and bind. Ideally, I would do both in the background, but there is some ambiguity about what kind of UI updates I should be doing in the background (as in outside the main thread). ...

What do the various Tk cursors mean?

My Google-fu is failing me. Please, consider the following: http://tcl.activestate.com:8000/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/cursors.htm Some of the cursors I understand easily enough, "watch" tells the user to wait, "left_ptr" indicates that I can select something under the cursor, "hand2" seems to be the "you're dragging something" cursor. What are ...

Keep a stream from fstream open through member functions

Hi, I am trying to keep a stream to a file /dev/fb0 (linux framebuffer) open throughout several Qt member functions. The goal is to use a myscreen::connect function to open up the framebuffer bool myscreen::connect() { std::fstream myscreen_Fb; myscreen_Fb.open("/dev/fb0") QImage* image; image = new QImage(w, h, QImage::Format_RGB...

Blackberry Custom Background of VFM scrolls with listfield?!

Hi, I want to "fix" the Background while only the ListFields scrolls. Current Problem: Scrolling Down (the surounding box should move with the List) Corresponding code for the VerticalFieldManager VerticalFieldManager _bottom_box = new VerticalFieldManager(Field.FIELD_HCENTER | Field.FIELD_VCENTER | VerticalFieldManager.VERTIC...

Beginner's Guide to Setting Up Qt for C++

Hello, I'm interested in playing around with GUIs and I've been trying to set up Qt for Visual Studio 2008 and MinGW but have failed miserably—in that at times I'd compile the library and it still wouldn't work and others the compile would fail. Can anyone recommend a good guide to set up Qt (or another GUI toolkit if setting up Qt just...

Preferred way to build gui components tree

What is the preferred way to build application gui components tree? Instantiate all components and build an entire tree, controlling it with show/hide/disable/enable operations on user events. Dynamically creating gui with create/add/remove components based on user events. I'm especially interested with this design problem in JavaFX....

When should I break into GUI/game development?

I am a hobbyist console C++ developer. I have worked with pointers, arrays, std::vectors, std::strings, classes, and several data structures, including stacks and binary trees. I have some experience in linear algebra and geometry, and know the basics of physics. I do NOT have experience with win32, QT, openGL, DX9, OGRE, etc. I am still...

Java GUI Design Advice

I'm programming my very first GUI app in Java using the Swing framework. I've coded a basic login system using the JTextField, JPasswordField, and JButton classes. Now, I'm writing the actionPerformed method for the button, which I want to remove these items as they are no longer necessary, but I am unsure as to the best way of achieving...

How to set default button in PyGTK?

I have very simple window where I have 2 buttons - one for cancel, one for apply. How to set the button for apply as default one? (When I press enter, "apply" button is pressed) However, I want to set focus to the first input widget (I can't use grab_focus() on the button) Any suggestions? Edit: After wuub's answer it works visually g...

Eclipse is Ugly (from a recovering vim user)

So, I'm finally taking the plunge to using eclipse from vim ... but I'm having some serious issues getting over the incredibly cluttered interface and menu system. Example: right clicking in the main text area yields a submenu with ~30 items... The whole eclipse environment seems cumbersome and rather ugly. I've painstakingly changed t...

javafx question

Have any tutorials about making gui with Adobe Illustrator, step by step, naming conversation? Example for multiple upload Note: i have done a conversation with google. ...

How can I program a GUI in MATLAB?

I need to create a GUI in MATLAB for my project. I looked everywhere for examples of how to program a GUI but I couldn't find a lot. What are some good sites or techniques for GUI programming in MATLAB? ...

Where to find documentation about multitouch API for Windows 7?

Where can I get the documentation about multitouch API for Windows 7? ...

What is this widget called?

There is a rotary control I have seen that is like the edge-on view of a knurled volume control wheel on an old Walkman. Without knowing what it's called I can't search for it - I'm pretty sure that the app was based on Qt. Edit - having tried it on a couple of people younger than me it seems that the iPod generation don't know volume k...

QTP / Dynamic Great Plains automation

I have recently completed a detailed investigation regarding GP functional test automation possibilities with QTP, TestComplete, and other GUI recognition/interaction tools. In short, none of the tools acted well. Mentioned above did best but still featured a lot of hard-coding in recorded sample scripts. QTP did significantly better tho...

Updating the region behind a resized window

We have a fairly complex GUI, so when certain windows are resized their Redraw() is set to false till the operation is completed. The problem with this is that if the OS "Show window content while dragging" setting is checked, when decreasing the window's size the windows behind it are not repainted. This means I have to force the repain...

Implementing drag and drop with QT 4.5 using QT Creator environment

We're about to commit to Qt and C++ (sigh) to do some cross-platform development. The latest version of Qt 4.5 seems very nice as does the QT Creator IDE, which although simple compared to other IDEs, is a good way to get started. I'm trying to understand how to do drag and drop into QT widgets from the "outside" world. As far as I can ...