In computing a graphical user interface (GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming ...
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Free Mockups for designing my asp.net web application [closed]
I am searching for a free Mockups builder , to design my asp.net mvc web application. I need mainly to design how the UI and screens will look like, and then to present and discuss the design with the ...
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UI builder for demonstrating an asp.net MVC web application [closed]
I want to start a new asp.net mvc project, and currently I am in the design phase. The customer asked us to provide the UI for the system to agree on it before starting our implementation efforts. the ...
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Is the Glade GUI designer a good option for a beginner?
I am a student of Computer Science and I already have basic programming experience in Python 2.x, 3.x, C++, and HTML. I never made a program with a GUI. I have just programmed games, scripts/plugins, ...
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How to render graphical interface automatically (behind the scenes)
I am trying to write a program that shows images of a Java application's GUI automatically (ie, without someone building, running, and then taking screenshots of the interface).
I know WindowBuilder ...
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How does one go about implementing a GUI/shell on top of a kernel?
What are the basic procedures, steps, etc.
I am considering writing a kernel or just taking Linux source and adding on from there, but I don't want to use the Qt framework, nor the Unity/GNOME ...
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Java; How to I make a GUI list out of an array of objects? [migrated]
I have an array of Objects. These objects are simple, just two Strings. I have a toString() method that just returns one of those strings.
I need to take that array of objects and make it into a ...
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Learning django and Python GUI [closed]
Can anybody suggest me some good user-interactive sites like Codecademy, for learning Django.
And also some good resources for learning python GUI programming.
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What's the right way to work with a graphic designer?
Recently, we worked with a graphic designer (arranged by the client) to provide the skin for a Django+Bootstrap application we had built. The designer provided a series of static images of the new ...
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What should the relation between parent and child GUI components be?
This seems to happen every time I create any sort of GUI. I have trouble figuring out how child classes should communicate to their siblings.
It's a general problem, but it's probably easier to use a ...
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Any Cross-Platform C++ GUI toolkit that doesn't use the Signal-and-Slot model? [closed]
I am not very comfortable with the signal-and-slot system which is employed by the Qt and
GTK+ toolkits.
Can anyone suggest me any Cross-Platform C++ GUI toolkit(s) which is active and reliable and ...
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Are GUIs ever programmed in DirectX for higher performance?
I've been researching GDI a little and on some websites I'm lead to believe it can hardly draw a few boxes, while on others it can easily be used in an interactive charting application.
So I'm ...
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Other than XML, what are some examples of “coding” a GUI design?
I've been trying to think outside of the box as to how desktop GUIs can be designed in code(not a graphical designer!). I've come across basically three ways this is done:
XML
Raw code (create a ...
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Modern REPL for Haskell - is anybody working on it? [closed]
It's time Haskell had a modern REPL like Mathematica's (or better).
Make each calculation run in a separate thread, so user has control over each computation box's resources (ability to pause, play, ...
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Chess GUI in Javascript [closed]
Hi I am currently working on a chess application. I have written these applications before, but never added GUI to them.
This time I upped the level a bit, I am trying to make a Multiplayer Web ...
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How to create in Python Tkinter a widget that would act like a choice tree?
I would like to know if there is such widget in tk (or in any different standard Python 3 module), or how to create it:
Of course it doesn't have to look like this, but it should offer same ...
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Dynamically change of UI on value changes in list box
I have a list box with several elements, let it be web servers (tomcat, iis etc). For each list box value, UI must have different views. For example, if we choose IIS, user name and password fields ...
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How GUI toolkits are made for c++?
Like GTK and wxwidgets, im having a hard time wrapping my head around it, ive looked at the source code of wxwidgets and i see no windows api functions in sight, i would like to just create a custom ...
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Where to start in developing a game engine as a web app
I have to create a web application, preferably I would host that on Google App Engine. it is a multiplayer game, So it needs to be interactive. I am only familiar with C/C++ coding, and have started ...
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Are there any advantages to using Eclipse RCP for a new project? [closed]
Given the advancements in rich client side HTML5 applications (apart from developer familiarity) are there good reasons to start a new application using Eclipse RCP as opposed to something like ...
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OOP when using a GUI Designer
I usually do database and web development but at the moment I'm learning desktop development with Mono and Gtk# using using the MonoDevelop IDE. I'm also using the Stetic GUI Designer inside ...
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Which GUI framework for a GUI newbie but expert C++ developer? [closed]
I have an API that streams short event messages for a human audience. I wish to display this in a beautiful dynamic display to users.
What GUI framework would work best with this data? I'm assuming ...
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What are some key factor when designing GUI? [closed]
What could be considered some key factor on GUI design??
Should it have loot of colors?
how many data should the user see on each screen?
Is there some sort of guide for GUI design?
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Why would each widget need a reference to its parent in a simple widget system?
I'm working on a simple widget system (single window, fixed size). Each widget gets its parent (i.e. the widget containing it) passed into its constructor - except for the root widget, which I called ...
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How to get a reference to a central AssetLoader in every Widget?
I'm working on a simple UI system for a game. The building blocks are Widget objects, which can contain each other. There are several sub classes of Widget, e.g. LabelWidget, ImageWidgetand ...
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Data representation with C# and WPF
I'm developing an application handling DB parts. I retrieve the data from the DB with stored procedures and prepared statements. Now I want to display the data in the GUI.
What is the current ...
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User selection and object creation
I'm writing a GUI application. The user selects item from a comboBox (non editable). The suitable input data control is then enabled and user enters data. Then the appropriate object according to the ...
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What are the cons of using XML for GUI development? [closed]
I'm hoping this question fits within the scope of Programmers SE and that it's not too open ended.
I've always hated GUI design. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I've hated CSS/HTML, I've hated ...
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What data structure could a word processor use to map the user's caret position/text selection to its internal representation of the document?
Word processors (e.g. Microsoft Word) display documents to the user as styled text. The user can select a part of this text and apply styles to it, and edit the text.
The word processor must (I ...
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Which Web or UI technology to learn for experienced Java developer [closed]
I have been working on Core Java for around 4-5 years now, but have no exposure of working on any Web or UI technology. So want to have preliminary knowledge of some Web/UI technologies now.
My query ...
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How to avoid big and clumsy UITableViewController on iOS?
I have a problem when implementing the MVC-pattern on iOS. I have searched the Internet but seems not to find any nice solution to this problem.
Many UITableViewController implementations seems to ...
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Why don't we have web IDEs?
Why don't we have a lot of good web-based IDEs? Which aspects of the system make it difficult for IDE to be implemented as a web application?
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What is a proper way of building Winform apps with multiple “screens”
What's a proper way of building a Winform app that has multiple 'screens'? For example, I'm trying to write a small backup program (mainly for giggles), and I've been dumping controls and containers ...
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Free tool to design Java user interfaces [closed]
While in the process of developing GUIs for my Java project, I am wondering if there is something that lets you visually design your GUI for Java and correspondently generates the needed code, just to ...
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Thread safe GUI programming
I have been programming Java with swing for a couple of years now, and always accepted that GUI interactions had to happen on the Event Dispatch Thread. I recently started to use GTK+ for C ...
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How do I organize a GUI application for passing around events and for setting up reads from a shared resource
My tools involved here are GTK and Haskell. My questions are probably pretty trivial for anyone who has done significant GUI work, but I've been off in the equivalent of CGI applications for my whole ...
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What to learn after standard C++? [closed]
I switched to C++ a few months ago, learning its syntax, the main features
of the STL and what you can usually find in a "learn C++" manual.
Now I would like to go further. What would be your ...
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Help deciding on language for a complex desktop - web application [closed]
I'm about to start working on a fairly complex project needing a desktop GUI as well as a web interface and I need to decide on a language(s) to use. This is from an electrical engineering/robotics ...
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Overloading interface buttons, what are the best practices?
Imagine you'll have always a button labeled "Continue" in the same position in your app's GUI.
Would you rather make a single button instance that takes different actions depending on the current ...
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Combining multiple events into one action/ Defer refreshing
So in a GUI program I have multiple events that trigger a update of a workspace. This update call is costly so I would want it to not happen very often.
A user might pick something from a dropdown ( ...
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JavaScript percentage displayer and/or adjuster? [closed]
I have web UI allowing for per-item percentage adjustment:
I'm looking for a JavaScript plugin (jQuery-like, hopefully) allowing a graphical way to display percentages via some sort of bar ...
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How to deal with hints/tutorial mode?
Currently I'm working on an basic application that has a 'tutorial mode'. Initially hints (bubbles with text) will be displayed above various ui elements, explaining how they work. Currently I have a ...
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Is it possible to use RubyGnome2's/QtRuby's HTML renderers to make UI for a Ruby script?
I'd like to make a graphical user interface for my script, instead of running it from the console. I'm aware there's a wealth of UI libraries for Ruby, but I'm quite familiar with HTML and CSS and I'd ...
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GUI advice for a responsive touchscreen
I am tasked with building a piece of software that interfaces with a MySQL database, in order to allow the user to pick songs to play and que using a touch screen, and then they are shown ...
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Developing an Interface to a Dynamic System
I work for a small company and have been designing a GUI to interface our embedded system. The problem with this embedded system is that it is not a finished product (may never be) and is constantly ...
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Using WCF as an API for Database access by the GUI, or no?
Originally I asked this question on Stackoverflow but I was suggested to move the question here.
I've asked this question a while ago in MSDN forums but I'd like a second opinion from ...
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Webkit as GUI in .Net/Mono
I want to make a cross platform application, which will also have a website where the desktop applications (Windows, iOS, Linux) will talk to the server and keep the users data in sync.
So far the ...
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How can one best avoid writing bloated GUI code?
I find whenever I work with GUI code, the code tends to bloat faster then other kinds of code. It also seems harder to refactor. Whereas in other kinds of code I can refactor pretty easily -- I find I ...
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Desktop GUI loading slow
I am developing desktop based GUI (single form) using wxPython and loads it using remote citrix access from client private network.
Suppose, the GUI has certain group of select and text boxes which ...
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Resources on concepts/theory behind GUI development?
I was wondering if there were any resources that explain concepts/theory behind GUI development. I don't mean a resource that explains how to use a GUI library, but rather how to create your own ...
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How to “translate” interdependent object states in code?
I have the following problem. My UI interace contains several buttons, labels, and other visual information. I am able to describe every possible workflow scenario that should be be allowed on that ...
