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• Learning to create beautiful /next-generation GUI

  - by ShaChris23

  I really want to create a stunning-looking GUI desktop application that looks like, for example: Mac OS X interface Picasa desktop client on windows IPhone apps Office 2007 I've mostly been programming GUI using Qt/Swing/WinForm and I'm tired of creating so plain looking GUI, lol. So I was thinking about diving into stuff like: jQuery WPF/C# iPhone SDK Silverlight Adobe Air/Flex Just to get some ideas on how to create really cool looking UI. Does that sound like a good list? Any developers here that could share what platform they use to create very cool looking desktop app? On a sidenote, I really wonder what developers at Apple / Microsoft use to develop their own cool-looking software. EDIT A lot of responses talk about the importance of usability over "cool-looking".. I totally agree that usability and simplicity are the most important aspects of user interface design. I've been doing GUI development for a while now ( 3 years), so that I understand. But using cool-looking UI also improves user experience + it could make big difference on whether or not your software sells. I mean, otherwise why would Microsoft/Apple try to make their OS UI look "cooler" everytime there's a new version? Why would websites like pragprog.com, or versionsapp.com. make their websites look like that? Basically you kill 2 birds with one stone: stunnning-looking UI + super usability (because it looks simple and intuitive). That is what I'm striving for. And as far as I know, I cannot achieve that using Qt/Winform. Most of the books I have read just show you how to make average-looking (read: 1990's) UI. I want to learn how to create cool-looking UI. And the only place I see cool-looking UIs these days are the technology I list above. I'm not enamored with any technology; but I just want to know how things are done in other technology to see if I could apply them to the technology I'm using, or see if I could use those technology in my line of work. An example: if I were to pick between this UI and this UI, I probably would pick the latter, if just based on looks alone. Functionally, they are just the same UI; they both allow you to keep track of your time. They both contain buttons and textboxes, etc. But the fact that they look different, also differentiate them in terms of attractiveness. So in all, I think the "ice on the cake" is very important. I would say it's the thing you strive for after you are certain you have a totally intuitive, usable UI.

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• Facebook Connect How to get userId after sign in from face book connect

  - by necromancer

  i am using facebook connect it is working fine but what i want now is i want to get the information of the currently logged in user. like name, email etc. I am working in asp.net 2.0 Regards

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• Important UI Features That Are Often Left Out

  - by lkessler

  I really want to know if I'm missing anything obvious in the software I'm developing. What User Interface features that you consider important are often missing in most software?

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• Can I point two separate ASP.NET websites to the same profile database?

  - by Ben Aston

  I'd like two websites to have read/write access to the same user profile database (named "aspnetdb" by default). Presumably this is possible by configuring the websites appropriately in the web.config. Are there any issues I should be wary of?

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• Solve math question in PHP

  - by Koning WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

  The user can enter a math problem like 5 + 654, 6 ^ 24, 2!, sqrt(543), log(54), sin 5, sin(50). After some reformatting (e.g. change sin 5 into sin(5)), and doing an eval, PHP gives me the right result. However, this is quite unsafe. Can anyone point me in the right direction parsing and solving a math question like the examples above, which is safe? Thanks.

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• How to customize the look and feel of the UI controls in WinForms?

  - by DanSogaard

  I'd like to customize the standard user controls look (buttons, dgv, txtboxs ... etc) and the layout of my forms to a state of art modern interface like any decently built application. How can I do that?. What to look for? any articles, books .. etc that might be of help!

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• Advantages/disadvantages of browser-based interface vs. graphics

  - by Josh

  Hello everyone, I'm in the design phase for a desktop-based application. Because of the nature of this particular application, I believe it would benefit greatly from a web-based approach (i.e., allowing a user to interface with the application through a browser running in kiosk mode) in order to leverage the simplicity of HTML/CSS/JS and the availability of many great JS interface plugins. Does taking this approach (rather than coding in a native or cross-platform graphics library) come with any gotchas?

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• What's a good book to recommend to a laymen for using Joomla (not developing for it)?

  - by DJTripleThreat

  I have a new client that really just has a need for a CMS setup. If she is going to need training (and she will) on how to use joomla as software, I'm going to charge her support fees but I also want to provide her with a useful resource in case I'm too busy to help her out. Anyone got a good user manual recommendation for Joomla?

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• How to cuztomize the look and feel of the UI controls in WinForms?

  - by DanSogaard

  I'd like to customize the standard user controls look (buttons, dgv, txtboxs ... etc) and the layout of my forms to a state of art modern interface like any decently built application. How can I do that?. What to look for? any articles, books .. etc that might be of help!

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• Is it possible to hide the doc icon programmatically

  - by Unicorn

  Is it possible to hide doc icon programmatically on demand. I know one way by which defining property "Application is agent (UIElement)" in plist we make the cocoa app as user agent. But this result in hiding the doc icon permanently. I am looking for a way where i can control visibility of doc icon. Any idea ?

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• Scrum stories and behind the scenes features

  - by James P.

  As I understand things, the Scrum backlog is composed of a series of Stories that represent something for the end user and this is further decomposed into Features. If this is the case, where does all the behind the scenes features go that aren't really linked to a story but are still useful? For example, say I'm making an application that catalogs the contents of a hard drive. A story wouldn't require it but having an md5 hash on each file would be a nice feature.

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• A Couple Android Soft Keyboard Questions

  - by Rich

  This is kind of a repost, and I apologize for any broken rules, but I have a couple of questions about the soft keyboard on Android phones: 1) I have an Android app with a couple different views (that the user switches between). How can I determine which is the current view?? I need to get the current view to execute the code that hides the virtual keyboard. 2) How can I check whether the virtual keyboard is currently being displayed (so I can filter the actions of my various hard keys)?? Thanks, R.

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• similar programs like Sofa Framework?

  - by TopTierTracker

  http://www.sofa-framework.org/ looking for other similar medical simulation software that have easier API for programming, better documentation and more active user interactive help forum. the goal is to do virtual design. I want to design something that can simulate a pipe pumping with haptic devices, but I couldn't get Sofa to work with my phantom device in their UI, and I can't use their API to build my stuff either. it's hard to get things going with slow support. thx for the help

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• Is it possible to hide the dock icon programmatically

  - by Unicorn

  Is it possible to hide dock icon programmatically on demand. I know one way by which defining property "Application is agent (UIElement)" in plist we make the cocoa app as user agent. But this result in hiding the dock icon permanently. I am looking for a way where i can control visibility of dock icon. Any idea ?

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• c# reading a set count of characaters from the console input stream

  - by metro

  Im tring to make something like a textbox for a console application, how to limit the Console.Out to only write a defined count of characters from user inputs ?

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• Creating phone number format standard php

  - by Webnet

  I found this resource when looking to commonly format user's phone numbers.... http://www.eyesis.ca/projects/formatphone.html I was wondering if someone else might have a better solution.

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• reading a set count of characters from the console input stream

  - by metro

  I'm trying to make something like a textbox for a console application, how to limit the Console.In to only read a defined count of characters from user inputs ?

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• Are there any modern GUI toolkits which implement a heirarchical menu buffer zone?

  - by scomar

  In Bruce Tognazzini's quiz on Fitt's Law, the question discussing the bottleneck in the hierarchical menu (as used in almost every modern desktop UI), talks about his design for the original Mac: The bottleneck is the passage between the first-level menu and the second-level menu. Users first slide the mouse pointer down to the category menu item. Then, they must carefully slide the mouse directly across (horizontally) in order to move the pointer into the secondary menu. The engineer who originally designed hierarchicals apparently had his forearm mounted on a track so that he could move it perfectly in a horizontal direction without any vertical component. Most of us, however, have our forarms mounted on a pivot we like to call our elbow. That means that moving our hand describes an arc, rather than a straight line. Demanding that pivoted people move a mouse pointer along in a straight line horizontally is just wrong. We are naturally going to slip downward even as we try to slide sideways. When we are not allowed to slip downward, the menu we're after is going to slam shut just before we get there. The Windows folks tried to overcome the pivot problem with a hack: If they see the user move down into range of the next item on the primary menu, they don't instantly close the second-level menu. Instead, they leave it open for around a half second, so, if users are really quick, they can be inaccurate but still get into the second-level menu before it slams shut. Unfortunately, people's reactions to heightened chance of error is to slow down, rather than speed up, a well-established phenomenon. Therefore, few users will ever figure out that moving faster could solve their problem. Microsoft's solution is exactly wrong. When I specified the Mac hierarchical menu algorthm in the mid-'80s, I called for a buffer zone shaped like a <, so that users could make an increasingly-greater error as they neared the hierarchical without fear of jumping to an unwanted menu. As long as the user's pointer was moving a few pixels over for every one down, on average, the menu stayed open, no matter how slow they moved. (Cancelling was still really easy; just deliberately move up or down.) This just blew me away! Such a simple idea which would result in a huge improvement in usability. I'm sure I'm not the only one who regularly has the next level of a menu slam shut because I don't move the mouse pointer in a perfectly horizontal line. So my question is: Are there any modern UI toolkits which implement this brilliant idea of a < shaped buffer zone in hierarchical menus? And if not, why not?!

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• How do I customize the ASP.Net Bubble Event to pass an additional variable?

  - by CowKingDeluxe

  I am using BubbleEvent to give events from a web user control to its parent (which is a Default.aspx with code behind page). I would like to use BubbleEvent to not only pass the sender and event, but also an integer or another variable. Is there a way to add a parameter to the BubbleEvent, or is there a different way I should be approaching this?

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• How can I track repeated visitors using cookies

  - by paramesh

  I want to track repeated user for our web site to show others by using cookies. It can be either java or javascript.

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• How can I securely check if a username is already taken?

  - by Geo

  I have a form where someone can create a new user. I'd like to add some AJAX to check if a username is taken, as soon as the input field loses focus. I'm not really sure how to go about this, as this could pave the way to bruteforce attack, since you could check for any username and see whether or not it exists. Any suggestions?

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• Python get raw_input but manually decide when string is done

  - by Jasie

  I want someone to type words in the console, and autocomplete from a list when they hit "tab" key. However, raw_input won't return a string until someone hits [Enter]. How do I read characters into a variable until the user hits [Enter]? *Note: I don't want to use import readline for autocompletion because of OS issues.

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• overriding listbox RenderEndTag method

  - by scatman

  i am trying to extend the listbox control. i tried to override the RenderEndTag and everything worked well. but when i try to use the contorl in a Web User Control, the code inside the RenderEndTag is not executed. any help?

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• how to get all 'username' from my model 'MyUser' on google-app-engine ..

  - by zjm1126

  my model is : class MyUser(db.Model): user = db.UserProperty() password = db.StringProperty(default=UNUSABLE_PASSWORD) email = db.StringProperty() nickname = db.StringProperty(indexed=False) and my method which want to get all username is : s=[] a=MyUser.all().fetch(10000) for i in a: s.append(i.username) and the error is : AttributeError: 'MyUser' object has no attribute 'username' so how can i get all 'username', which is the simplest way . thanks

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• Should the function or the caller be resonsible for input validation?

  - by haudenschilt

  I'm doing a security audit on a fairly large php application and was wondering where I should include my user-input validation. Should I validate the data, then send the clean data off to the back-end functions or should I rely on each function to do it's own validation? Or even both? Is there any standard or best-practice for this sort of thing? Currently the app does both inconsistently and I'll like to make things more consistent.

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