Questions tagged [ui]
User Interface _ the application interface designated for the end users
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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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Design for Pages that starts for Different Purposes
At my company, we have different pages for different purposes and some of those pages has multiple starting points. According to that points, pages opens with different types. For examle: When clicked ...
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Are automated UI tests necessary? What should be tested?
Our small team writes desktop apps using WPF + Prism. Most of the team members are not so familiar with professional software developing process. I'm trying to adopt some agile techniques to make the ...
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Save data from multiple Qt components scattered around multiple QML files
I would like to save the current "value" property of several components (e.g. a Slider) as a configuration profile when the user clicks on the Save button in my application. However, the Save button ...
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Self describing data with UI
I have a use case where my team owns a web UI to aggregate data from 10+ service teams and present it to the customer in order to collect more information . This data (which is in json format) is very ...
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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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Separate UI applications vs single with logic for showing/hiding functionality
Currently my company has a single internal application that our support agents use. It only supports one product at this time. Tech stack is angular on the front end and spring micro services for ...
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Web designer equivalent in Android and iOS worlds?
When web came, for years designers would create stunning designs in Photoshop, and developers would try to translate those designs to HTML/CSS/JS. This had many problems with itself. Lack of ...
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If either html+css or an image can achieve my desired decoration, which one should I prefer to use?
For example, to create flow indicator like:
Step 1 > Step 2 > Step 3
I can either:
1.Use html+css
.concave{
border-left:1em solid transparent;
border-top:1em solid orange;
border-...
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UI Architecture
I'm confused in architecture solution for boolean expression tree.
Business logic has algo to parse config and make a tree from such expressions.
(a && b || c) && d || (e && f)...
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Windows Service with authentication, some UI required
I have to build a Windows Service which requires OAuth2 authentication. The service is intended (like all services should be) to run unattended (no user need to be logged in in Windows). The problem ...
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Get value from UI element or from variable
I had a debate with a friend and I'm looking for a way to resolve it and decide which approach is better for maintenance and whether there's some consensus about a best practice regarding it:
If an ...
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how should the MVP pattern handle views created at runtime?
how should the MVP pattern handle views created at runtime ?
for example
There is a mainView (that has a model and presenter) that needs to display a list, each item in the list is represented by it'...
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Real time update as user entering information like what Google doc do or use a save button
I am making a design decision to real time hit API to save all the fields in a form when user make an change even if hes not finished yet. Or, use a save button like most app does.
Any pros and cons ...
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easy way of preventing multiple users of working on the same task
Our client has a software, where tickets come in. Multiple employees are responsible for answering these tickets (via phone), in a short amount of time (call back within X minutes).
What would be the ...
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Search page design with logical operators
I have a page that displays a set of records. The page has filter section to search records.
currently the logical operator AND is applied between all the filter conditions. Now the requirement for ...
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How to manage multiple views in a single page JavaScript Application without a 3rd party library [closed]
I am building a JavaScript application that makes AJAX requests to a PHP API Back-end to load JSON data for different views.
The app UI consist mainly of a left sidebar menu which has items loaded ...
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Should I put UI and logic in separate classes?
I currently work on a hobby project which I use to learn more about Android/Java programming and programming in general. Recently, I decided to integrate jUnit into the project. Just getting it in ...
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NPM downloadable package with only high level brand styles [closed]
I've been tasked to create an NPM package that our Frontend teams can make use of that has styling for the companys UI elements:
Layout Grid unit proportions, gutters and spacing.
Typography ...
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Pros and cons of asserting on the DB level in selenium tests
Consider a Selenium test that does some steps on the UI (e.g. fill a field and then click a save button), and afterwards checks with a DB query if the data entered in the new field was really saved ...
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How to handle a complete UI redesign of a web product? [closed]
Sorry for the codeless post, but I am wondering how to handle a complete UI redesign for a big web product? Maybe somebody have experience and could actually determine the steps on how you would do ...
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Interface Methods vs Data Objects
Building a UI editor for Android and basically there are interfaces such as this:
interface Item {
fun decorate()
fun translate(x: Int, y: Int)
fun rotate(rotation: Float)
fun scale(...
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Knowledge base UI pattern
In our database backed (C# WPF / Entity Framework) application, we want to build a system to enter, store, display and search arbitrary content linked to our main entity. The challenge here is to find ...
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Advice: Switching to MVC from Webforms Web designer vs UI designer [closed]
Over the last two years, I've taken over a web application development group. My focus for the first two years was building teams, get technology updated and in-place, and fixing my customers pain ...
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Browser Web Application UI/End User Testing
I am building a web application in php. I am following TDD (write tests before production code) for my unit tests and using BDD to drive discovery of my applications features and to provide ...
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Feature Toggles for Front-end Redesign
We are planning a redesign of our front-end and would like to roll it out using a feature toggle. We want to expose the changes to limited sets of users as we iterate and perhaps allow users to opt ...
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Are debug-build-only UI controls a bad practice?
Often, to simplify testing, I add UI controls that are only visible and enabled in debug build only. Or prepopulate mandatory input fields in debug build. Is this a bad practice? Assuming the release ...
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How to refer to ByRef and ByVal in a dropdown label? [closed]
The MSDN page on ByRef and ByVal keywords isn't very helpful; unless I somehow skipped it, they're simply being referred to as "keywords" everywhere.
One of the main contributors of the Rubberduck ...
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Do classes in a JRE library support observable and/or asynchronous reads from external/non-JRE assemblies?
How can I implement my cross-platform library (e.g. on JRE) to operate in a thread-safe manner on object references, so that native front-ends on other platforms can observe the object and take ...
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Defining and testing detailed user interface requirements
I am in the process of designing and building a small web app. While implementing a first prototype I discovered that I make many unwritten assumptions about the behaviour of the interface. For ...
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Is turning UI (or other) features on and off based on dates-a code smell?
We have an awful system written in ASP.NET 2.0 that we need to add some functionality to. The problem is that a certain product has UI features that have to be turned on for business initiated after a ...
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Semantic web and web UI impedance matching
While developing a web-application (= application with web UI) using semantic web resources / technology like RDF, OWL, SPARQL, there is constantly a feeling that at the same time semantic offers much ...
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Pattern for separating UI code from logic in Wicket
I'm using Apache Wicket for developing web apps, I have developed a few for the last year and it has been great; today I was looking at a few pages and most of them look like this:
public class ...
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Usage of “bugfix” to refer to UI changes in branch names
If a user interface has an undesired look (elements not having padding or margins when it would be appropriate, etc.) and I implement a correction in a new (named) source control branch, would it be ...
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Why don't all UI Control methods RunOnUIThread
In both .NET and in Android and I'm sure other frameworks I've noticed this issue where you end up with a task that takes too long and so holds up the UI thread.
Say you have a method that updates a ...
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Techniques for fitting multi language labels on forms
I am building a multi language website on ExtJS, where I have covered all the technical aspects of the multi language aspect.
How would deal with different string lengths? Lets say I design a 160px ...
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How do I Create Automated UI test code for application developed using Domain-Driven-Design with very little concrete UI requirements?
We are developing an application using Domain-Driven-Design(DDD).
We have to come up with Automated UI Test code.
The customer has used 3rd-party GUI Administration template (https://bootstraphunter....
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Where to override the design of jQuery UI elements?
We are using a few jQuery UI elements in our web application, and I need to change their design. For example, the ui-progressbar is way too high and its rounded corners don't fit well with our design. ...
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Algorithm for a UI showing X percentage sliders whose linked values always total 100%
A system I'm building includes a set of UI sliders (the number varies) each with a scale of 0-100. By slider I mean a UI where you grab an element and drag it up and down, like a volume control. They ...
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Mobile App Development-Architecture/Platform: Main performance concern: device/UI responsiveness [closed]
I am currently investigating different alternatives for building a mobile instant messaging application for iOS and Android, using an XMPP server (probably ejabberd) as the back-end. Main requirements ...
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Drawing a custom rendered control in Windows - resizing
Some background: in order to learn GUI programming and drawing in Windows I'm starting to create my own GUI toolkit in Windows (so this is a didactic exercise, please don't suggest "use Qt" or "use ...
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Are there any downsides to replacing js confirm boxes with “mark record as deleted”?
I believe in the user experience of always having a confirm pop-up for deletions.
However (though we're very used to it), a separate small pop-up window is not ideal and for users on different ...
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Reactive programming vs MVVM pattern for managing GUI updates
Reactive programming and MVVM are two approaches that can address the problem of separating the domain layer from the UI.
MVVM does this by defining a viewmodel, which is a data structure mapped to ...
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Clarification about MVC Design pattern
I've been reading up on MVC and I had a doubt. The example where the Model, View and Controller are all individual classes whose objects are created and used to deploy the application in another class....
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Custom Domain or Attribute Reference Table or Both?
I'm designing my first real database and I'm weighing the pros and cons of how to enforce uniformity in my data. My first option is to create a custom domain and program my UI to only allow certain ...
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Rich console UI
There are bunch of console programs and especially games using full redraw (not sure ho this correctly named) of console window.
For example, look at output of linux top program -> http://upload....
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how should I handle server error during ajax logout?
I need to write a handler for server error during user logout. What is a common practice?
ajax.post({
url: '/auth/logout'
}).done(function (response) {
switch (response.statusCode) {
...
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Building an organization-specific XML editor in HTML
I'm building a user friendly XML editor in HTML/JS.
Looking for some general advice on how to build the editor UI and which approach you'd recommend on mapping the data to the UI.
Details about the ...
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Why are dark color schemes in editors so popular? [closed]
Nowadays, almost everybody is using a dark color scheme in their code editor - dark background with light text. Even most web based editors (e.g on Github) feature dark color schemes.
I honestly don'...
