Questions tagged [gui]
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 devices, household appliances and office equipment.
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How to handle exception messages in GUI applications in order to decouple application code to GUI code?
I want to make an application with a GUI in a way that most of its code is independent from the GUI used (let's say I'll use Java 8 and Swing for example). I have some methods with try/catch blocks ...
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Designing a WPF / MVVM architecture where view behavior changes in different states
As part of my bachelors thesis, I'm trying to develop something akin to a painting program. That means, I have a toolset, be it selection, drawing, highlighting, etc.
I'll have a canvas that displays ...
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Observer reporting to multiple layers up from the bottom of hierarchy
There is a swarm of objects. When a new unit of certain kind appears on the frame, the swarm integrates this object by calling some add_new_unit method. Above the swarm is a controller abstraction, ...
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“Screen-states”: How to express all of them in a concise way? [closed]
If my software has some screens, how do i express the various states of those screens? If, for example, I have 3 checkboxes in a screen, so I have 8 combinations total and at first thought, 8 states ...
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How to inform presenters of sub views of a main window about global data change in an MVC or MVP GUI app?
Suppose I'am writting a GUI desktop application which has a main window with a corresponding presenter. This main windows may host one or multiple panels which each also have their own presenter.
The ...
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At what stage should the (G)UI be designed?
I'll take out the ellipsis to make this easier/quicker to read:
Large group project in school, stakeholders gave a fuzzy explanation as to what they want. I suggested that we:
sketch the GUIs so we ...
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WebApp for ETL with visual mapping - read csv and map it to data model
a few years ago I wrote a python script for reading CSV, handling the headers, filtering data, renaming stuff via RegEx...bascially to do various ETL stuff.
This was done using a exhaustive ...
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Making execution of Python script fool-proof beyond adding shebang
Assume that a Python package (available via PyPI) is too difficult for novice users to utilize. Specifically, typing python2 path_to_package/start_GUI.py in the command line, which opens a TKinter GUI,...
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Term for user interfaces using characters to create “keyboard navigating menus”: GUI or CLI?
Does anyone know a term for these kind of user interfaces? Some examples:
old BIOS menu of PCs
safeboot menu of windows
other old MSDOS applications running on fullscreen using "keyboard navigating ...
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What options are for a GUI for a Java application? [closed]
This might be a bit of a wide question. I have a couple of classes in Java that take input a String which is a mathematical expression and evaluates it.
I want to implement a desktop GUI for this. ...
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TDD for Graphics application
I have googled and read few articles about the TDD for UI. I am not very much clear about how to start the implementation of the Graphics Application using Test Driven Development or how to write unit ...
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can I send message to the actor in sequence diagram
Is it correct for the user(actor) in sequence diagram to receive a message from object while<< UI>> is exist in the diagram
for example user will request to edit some data ..so the request will ...
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How can a GUI display unsolicited output?
"Solicited output" means a user issues a command to a GUI and the GUI displays the corresponding output.
In this context, I include Web apps in the term "GUI".
However, often a GUI needs to display ...
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Web GUI for Python scripts
I have several but independent computer vision pipelines which were original planned to run by a user via a cmd (task1 -> script_1.py, task2 -> script_2.py and so on).
All pipelines share some code (...
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How to separate serialization, visualization and computation from GUI editable code objects?
This might be an X Y problem, but here's my situation.
I've got a QT5 C++ code base whose task it is to allow for the configuration of a "process chain". A "process chain" here means a list of ...
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Ideal Interprocess Communication
So, there is a workflow I feel needs to exist. It may already exist, and I don't know about it.
Consider the Linux command line workflow, the "motto" of Linux, more or less. You have a bunch of ...
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Is there a theoretical foundation for GUI layout management?
I don't mean to come across as glib, but I feel that the clearest way I can communicate what I want to know is through some analogies:
CPython, gcc, javac, ... -> compilers
MS Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, ....
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Solving similar devices problem
Problem:
Winform app for servicing different types of devices (approx. 10 types).
Some devices have more settings similar (or same) then the others.
Each device could also has software and hardware ...
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Manage the Lifetime of GUI States
I am designing a program responsible for a GUI (with the graphics and user input being managed within a typical update loop) which has several states:
The default state is an animation which ...
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Proper Separation of Concerns in GUI Development
The Situation
I'm developing a JavaFX desktop application that can be described in three parts:
The Data
The GUI
The Process
The GUI is a means of seeing and editing the data and the process is a, ...
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Data sync between Model and View in MVC pattern
I have a question about MVC pattern, concerning the controller part.
Most of the program I happen to write are basically spreadsheet like. They are written in C/GTK+ and Python3/Qt5/Tkinter but share ...
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Choosing the right paradigm when building a GUI for an application
I'm building a GUI for a CL program and I have the following question
Is it better to
Have the GUI invoke the program behind the scenes using a shell with some options eg: If I were I were writing a ...
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Architecture of gui application
I am writing gui application. I want to implement following structure:
project tree with nodes of different type and behavior (i.e. when right clicking or selecting there can be different menu ...
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UI vs Window vs View
What are the differences between these? I would assume UI would be the overarching interface for a specific application composed of multiple windows. A window would then be composed of either 1 or ...
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What is an effective design pattern for 'fan-in' from multiple task threads into a single UI thread?
In many applications the 'UI thread' is special and framework UI updates must be dispatched from this thread.
However, in order to avoid locking the UI slow tasks are executed in background threads ...
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GUI that builds an object - how to design the GUI?
I'm currently writing the GUI for my application. As I understand in a MVC-like application are the following components for each feature:
Business data: a complex object hierarchy containing all the ...
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At what stage of a Java project do you configure GUI components?
I need a little advice with project design. I have taken on a personal project to enhance my knowledge of Java Swing, API integration, JDBC and OOP
I have chosen to do this in Java as I previously ...
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Multi platform GUI with a python/C++ core
I am aware of the existence of several threads on the topic, but I am looking for fresh hand-on experience, that I was unable to find.
I have an application written in C++ (core, linear algebra and ...
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Releasing Python GUI app on GitHub: still use setup.py?
First Software Engineering question, so I hope I'm on topic.
I'm an academic scientist working on on Python GUI applications for educational (and eventually research) use. The GUI uses PyQt and ...
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Events fired when widgets are updated programmatically
In the GUI application I'm working on I have a number of custom (composite) widgets that I've created, with each widget having an update_gui function where I access my SQLite database so I can fill in ...
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Incrementally populating a list with a sliding effect
I have seen a very nice effect in many applications which i don't how how it is achieved.
There is, usually, a list (eg. with emails) and the app populates it gradually with the emails putting them ...
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Options vs Preferences vs Settings? What do they mean, and for what should I use them? [closed]
Across the various different programs, you will most often have a menu item called:
Preferences
Firefox
Chrome
Gedit
Synaptic (Under a Settings menu column)
Hexchat (Under a Settings menu column)
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Idiomatic way of writing a GUI system in Go?
I'm writing a little GUI system for my game in Go. So far my structure is kind of like this:
type Component interface {
Update()
Render(ctx)
Translate()
GetComponent() []Component
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User Interface design for selecting elements from big lists
I am not to sure if this is a question which fits the topics of software engineering.
I have two levels of objects "Categories" and "Category Values". I need to build a user interface for users to ...
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Using ObserverPattern, but need to stop some observers displaying changes immediately
In a GUI application (to organize images), I use the Observer Pattern (or anything similar to model-view-(view)controller) to inform other components about changes.
Assuming three components A, B, C ...
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Sending events down a tunnel, and bubbling them back up
I am working on developing an HTML canvas application, where I need to be able to do my own UI event processing. That's where the stem of this question comes from, but I'd really like to understand ...
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Background operations in controller/presenter or form?
I have a desktop application with each window decopuled into presentation layer (containing the Form/Controls etc.) and application layer (Controller/Presenter - naming is irrelevant to the question). ...
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How to decouple UI from logic on Pyqt/Qt apps properly?
I've read quite a lot about this subject in the past and watched some interesting talks like this one from Uncle Bob's. Still, I always find pretty difficult to architect properly my desktop ...
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Why use X11 windows extensively in a GUI toolkit?
In GTK+, most if not all widgets are based on GDK windows, which are in turn each backed by their own X11 window, assuming one uses the X11 backend (Note that I'm not talking about toplevel windows, ...
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Should a State Machine or Processing Engine be abstracted away from the UI?
I'm working on a suite of micro-services, with a web-based GUI. We are using a 3rd party state machine via REST calls. Sometimes we get/set state from one of our micro-services, while other times we ...
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GUI applicaton states and polymorphism
I have WinForms GUI application, which can work in two "states" with different functionality, but these states share GUI controls. I am dividing these states by using enum almost in every method, like:...
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Not understanding the concept of how to make my GUI application
I am making a program that primarily deals with heavy data mining and analysis. It is primarily a back-end type algorithm, with no GUI elements or console windows seen as it runs. Occasionally though, ...
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Creating a private in-house application with Qt
I want to create an application using the Qt framework, but can not at all afford a commercial license. While looking at the licensing comparison table, I noticed that the LGPLV3 license said this:
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How to create a layout of controls that can be duplicated on a form at runtime
I have a bunch of controls including labels, updown menu, combo boxes, radio buttons, and check boxes that must be replicated once someone hits the add button. Is there a way that I can create a ...
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Associate selection from GUI with executable code
I am currently writing a GUI for a C# application that adheres to the following software requirements (and am struggling with the conceptual design):
Have a GUI with some choices of different ...
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Standard for implementing GUIs for command line utilities
I wrote a command-line utility and I want to develop a GUI for it. I saw that almost every tool on linux comes command-line, and it eventually has a GUI which interacts with the command line utility ...
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Choosing default size of application window
Suppose I'm developing an application with a simple graphical user interface, like a basic text editor. How do I choose a good default size of the application window? Should the height of the window ...
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Why Does JavaFX's GridPane Attach Properties of the Layout to the Components?
I am currently learning JavaFX and I came across a very strange API for laying out GUI components. It is perhaps best explained by it's javadoc:
To use the GridPane, an application needs to set the ...
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Possible DRY with Pausing Mechanism
Background
I am currently working on the architecture for a future software design. The design is one long running task (hours-long) with thousands of sequential calls to various libraries. I ...
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GUI Testing With Network
I am doing GUI tests for my network application and I'm wondering if I should stub out mock responses, or if it's OK to keep using the network for the GUI tests.
It seems to me the main benefits of ...
