Questions tagged [user-interaction]

User-interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being and a computer program.

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How do I communicate with the user in a finite state machine implementation?

Basically I have a custom implemented finite state machine that mostly listens for hardware switch state changes for initiating transitions, but some things need communication with the user... For instance, the user needs to tell it whether to…
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iPhone iPad is it possible to completely disable screen interaction and gestures programmatically?

I built an ios game for my cat and he's quite fond of it. However, when he touches the screen , he repeatedly invokes all kinds of gestures - notification center, pinch to home screen, swipe between apps. I have to sit next to him and "fix" the game…
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JavaFX - draw rectangle in canvas with mouse (like in Windows paint app)

I'm developing a JavaFX application. I have a canvas and I want to know how can I draw an rectangle or other geometric shape with mouse, like in Windows paint app. Does anybody knows?
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How to make an interactive city map without Flash

So I've looked at all the previous questions asked and found that nothing was answered to the point of what most are asking and I would like to rephrase the question asked about making clickable maps. The idea - Have a map of a singular city in the…
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Is it possible to record/replay a set of touch events on iPhone for demo purposes?

I'm thinking of a way to include a demo of how my iPhone app works along with the app. I need to demonstrate how one of my on-screen GMGridView controls works. Is it possible to record or programmatically create a set of long press, touches moved,…
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What language to use when prototyping a small game

I am currently considering writing a small game. It is essentially a map where you can zoom out and in, and in certain places click on info boxes where, at some point, I hope to integrate minigames. Granted, game might be overstating it. Think of it…
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Android : Touch events in layout after animation

I have a LinearLayout which contains only a ListView. LinearLayout fills the entire screen and the listView at first stays at the bottom quarter of the screen. I am setting Top Margin of ListView to a big value to keep the listView at the bottom of…
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UIImageView pixel-perfect `touches began` for non-transparent parts of UIImage

developing iphone app, I have used a UIImageview and i have set an image of irregular shape // uiimageview type shutter shutter = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,32.5)]; //setting image on shutter UIImage* shutterimg =…
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Last Instance of User Interaction on Mac

I'm trying to detect the last instance that a user interacted with a given Mac (preferably in some sort of comparable data structure, like seconds since the epoch.) This interaction should include typing, mouse motion, app interaction, etc. However,…
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Why do some gui softwares feel solid to use while others feel the opposite?

Sometimes when you use a piece of software the software feels well defined and solid. Though other times the software doesn't feel like this and just feels much more dynamic and not solid. A good example of this is VSCode. VSCode is a great piece of…
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User interaction from the PostScript executive

I'm building an application in PostScript that needs to take input fom the user at a prompt (I will be using the GhostScript executive, and the file won't be sent to the printer). I can't see anything in my PostScript Language Reference Manual that…
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Randomizing variable only after user interaction

sorry for the format of this question, my code, if its been asked before, etc. i'm a little new to coding with python, especially pygame, so i don't know exactly what i'm doing i'm trying to make a game which randomizes a shape from a list and the…
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Android: Detect General Use by User

I am working on an application that monitors phone use (specifically, what time its being used). Presently, I log times of phone calls, SMSs, MMSs, Screen turning on, screen turning off, and keygaurd unlocking. Now I want to determine when the user…
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Accessibility concerns in an HTML-CSS-JavaScript interactive tree-graph

The structure is as follows:
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