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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Desktop UI builders state of the art studies or papers?
I am quite surprised that searching for advances in the last 30 years of UI builders for desktop applications did not showed interesting results in Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...
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Is there any benefit testing only with mocks/fakes/doubles?
Say I want to test the behavior of the GUI while I follow a PassiveView approach. I also use the command pattern to handle the actions of the user. So given a PersonView and a PersonService with a ...
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Best way to access (grand grand) parent element in gui
I'm creating a multi window gui program, in c++ with Qt Widgets. I do have many custom gui elements, which usually are c++ classes inherited from QWidget or other Qt elements. When foo is the main ...
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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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“Dead programs tell no lies” in the context of GUI programs
In The Pragmatic Programmer, the authors write:
One of the benefits of detecting problems as soon as you can is that you can crash earlier, and crashing is often the best thing you can do. The ...
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Am I using the correct terminology for my project?
I'm currently the sole programmer for a project. We are creating a handheld device that includes a screen to display live data and video feed, push buttons to control the program's functionalities, ...
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DRY principle vs decoupling (business from GUI)
Say I have a business model called Vehicle. Vehicle has many fields but to keep it simple say it looks like:
public class Vehicle {
String ownerName;
String brand;
FuelType fuelType;
}...
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What are “User Process Components”?
This article about application architecture design mentions "User Process Components" as part of the presentation layer.
User process components. Your user process components help ...
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How to record the sequence of events effectively when there is a logical flow runs over various event notifications?
Let me explain what I mean there is a logical flow runs over various event notifications based on our web app, which is event-driven and it is quite common in my opinion.
User clicks a button to ...
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Check if can delete before save
I am designing an application that works with REST API requests for dealing with information stored in a database.
The user will add, edit, delete information in this client and after SAVE the ...
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How to construct a model state dependent context menu in a MVP GUI application
Lets say I have a GUI application which tries to adhere to Model-View-Presenter (MVP) as best as possible.
In this application I have a list box with items. One should be able to interact with these ...
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In the MVC pattern, what has the responsibility for creating the view?
This is something that has been bugging me for a bit in a program I am trying to build. It is a desktop GUI application, and I settled on the use of the famous "MVC" (Model-View-Controller) ...
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What's a good way to inplement a “delete” function for my custom polymorphic widgets?
I'm currently trying to make a simple program with UI where a user can add, select and remove different objects inherited from an abstract common interface with a mouse.
What I plan to do is use a set&...
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A question about WinForms versus WPF regarding GUI performance
I have some experience with WinForms and want to make a GUI for real-time plot of signals and also controlling hardware.
I am planning to use WinForms for this and want to avoid WPF. My reasoning is ...
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A desktop app which incorporates a REST API?
I am planning to build an adapter between a PC and devices which have the same function but which have different interfaces. The adapter will probably be based on a Raspberry Pi and will have a touch ...
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Making a GUI for receiving/checking user input - how to arrange GUI and validation checks
Sorry if my question sounds general, I'm new to GUI and frontend/backend ideas and all that (mostly I just do scripts for math hw and such) but I make it more specific here. I have a program that runs ...
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Simple tic-tac-toe GUI in Common Lisp: Avoid using Continuation Passing Style?
I've made a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game in Common Lisp using the Ltk library.
One of the things I wanted to do was to support CPU vs CPU, human vs human, human vs CPU, and CPU vs human. Also, possibly ...
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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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Why use classes when programming a tkinter gui in python
I program primarily in python and have programmed a couple of GUI's with Tkinter, every tutorial I have ever seen has recommended defining and using a class for the GUI, but my GUI runs flawlessly ...
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Multiple main windows in one process vs multiple processes
I'm making a desktop application where it would be perfectly sensible for the user to have multiple instances of the main window open at the same time (i.e., with different documents open between them)...
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Display different panel on button click (MVC pattern)
I have to code a gui like this:
It's an homepage with a left menu and a changing right part, on button1 click form1 must be displayed, on button2 click form2 a so on.
Each form has its own button "ok"...
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How Would I Create Bindings to a GUI toolkit like GTK, Tk, or Qt for a Programming Language?
The title says it all. How would I, in theory, create a binding for different GUI toolkits for a programming language that has no GUI bindings. I ask because I want to experiment with this sometime ...
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Recommendations for a web-based help system
I'm putting together a fairly large GUI. I'm a tech person, but more on the hardware side, not software. I'm wondering what software package would be best suited to enable me to generate a web-based ...
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How is fast-scroll simulated?
I've noticed on web and mobile apps, when scrolling down to the bottom of a list with thousands of entries it reaches the bottom instantly but appears to be scrolling through every entry.
How is ...
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how to build microservices that also have GUIs
In a microservices architecture where each component does one thing, how do you handle GUI logic? How do you avoid building a front end web application that has a lot of smarts built into it where it ...
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Whats a proper way to design a GUI event system?
I'm trying to write a GUI library for a project (also for learning purposes) from scratch (in C++), and it's working pretty well, but since this is my first attempt i feel that the design of the event ...
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Alternatives to polling an API
Assume we have a desktop application (probably WinForms) that acts as a client to some API for an app with a messaging function. This API has endpoints that return a JSON of messages, and who sent ...
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Build docker images for GUI applications in Linux
Currently I'm building GUI applications for Linux and they have many dependencies( We ship Raspberry Pi devices with the executable installed on each device). My idea is to create a docker image for ...
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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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balance between UI responsiveness and avoiding race conditions
To keep scope small I will talk about UI race conditions initiated by the same user in the same app sessions.
The question is general and not specific to mobile, web or desktop UI.
The issue
Modern ...
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Who is responsible for GUI timeouts: the GUI or the app?
I have an application written in C#. This app uses a GUI for message display and user input, and the GUI is connected to the app via an interface class:
public interface IEndUserInterface
{
void ...
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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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How to output exception messages in GUI applications in order to decouple application code to GUI code?
I want to make GUI applications such that the non-GUI code is independent from the GUI one (let's say I'll use Java 8 and Swing for example). The goal is that I could hypothetically change the GUI ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Is Python a good choice to develop UIs? If so, wxPython or Tkinter?
I'm looking forward to develop a desktop application using Python. I'm a beginner and I don't have sufficient expertise in Python. I'm also a Java programmer. Although I have some experience in ...
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When to use RCP?
I like to write small GUI applications using Java and Swing, something like a client for the social website Tumblr
Should I use Eclipse RCP or the Netbeans platform?
And what benefits do I get from ...
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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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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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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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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 (...
