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User Interface (UI) is the system through which people interact with a computer. This tag can be used for UI-related programming questions. Note that there's a separate Stack Exchange site for User Interfaces, Interactions with the Computer and User Experience design: https://ux.stackexchange.com.

User Interface (UI) is the system through which people interact with a computer. This tag can be used for UI-related programming questions.

Note that there's a separate Stack Exchange site for User Interfaces, and Interaction- and User Experience design.

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How do you test the usability of your user interfaces

How do you test the usability of the user interfaces of your applications - be they web or desktop? Do you just throw it all together and then tweak it based on user experience once the application is live? Or do you pass it to a specific…
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Are there Perl GUI builders, especially for WxPerl?

Are there good GUI builder for Perl GUI libraries, especially for WxPerl?
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Designing a GUI

How would you, as a developer with little (or no) artistic inclination, design a GUI for an application? In particular, I'm thinking about desktop apps but anything that relates to Web apps is welcome as well. I find it extremely hard to design…
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Unable to connect signal to a function inside main()

I am aware that to use the signals and slots mechanism of Qt inside a class, the class must include the Q_OBJECT macro, but I am attempting to use signals and slots in main(), without using any class. Here is my code so far: #include…
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pyqt - how to make a textarea to write messages to - kinda like printing to a console

I'm fairly new to pyqt - I'm currently using it to make a visual representation of a graph. I made a custom widget for this, which was fairly easy. But now I'm stuck when having to use built in functionality. I want to add a 'view' to my application…
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How to add space between items in android listview?

I would like to add padding between EACH item in a listview, but I would like to keep the default divider as I think it is aesthetically pleasing. Anything wider looks ugly. I currently have:
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How to make my TextView width half of its parent?

If I want to make my TextView width exactly equal to the width of its parent, I can use android:layout_width="fill_parent" What about if I want to make it half the width of the part? Or, in general, set the width relative to the…
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Perl documentation (POD) browsers?

I'm looking for is a good on-screen POD reading experience. For years, I've used perldoc or man running in an xterm to read Perl documentation on screen, and a small custom program built around Pod::LaTeX to print it. The printed version is good:…
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Keeping GUIs responsive during long-running tasks

Keeping the GUI responsive while the application does some CPU-heavy processing is one of the challenges of effective GUI programming. Here's a good discussion of how to do this in wxPython. To summarize, there are 3 ways: Use threads Use…
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Easy way to launch Python scripts with the mouse in OS-X

I'd like to write cross platform Python scripts that are GUI frontends for command line programs. The problem is I know a few Mac users who think that using the terminal will have the same effect as throwing their computer off the top of a…
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How do I get the default font for Swing JTabbedPane labels?

Does the text in Swing components have a default font? In particular, what about tab labels on JTabbedPanes? I'm working on a mock-up of a GUI made with Swing and want it to blend it with a screen image I grabbed of a Swing app.
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Is there anything called GUI standards?

GUIs are one of the important areas in most of the software products. I would like to know whether there is something called GUI Standards that defines the best practices in GUI design, but in depth. As an example are there any definitions that…
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UI Patterns in JavaScript

What UI patterns do you usually use in JavaScript? By UI patterns I mean best practices to be used to build and organize UI, generated/managed from JavaScript (apart from libraries like jQuery or YUI). For example, if you came from .NET world you…
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Get current active window's title in Java

I am trying to write a Java program that logs what application I'm using every 5 seconds (this is a time tracker app). I need some way to find out what the current active window is. I found KeyboardFocusManager.getGlobalActiveWindow() but I can't…
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Displaying translucent / irregular-shaped windows with Qt

Is it possible to display translucent and/or irregular-shaped windows with Qt? (I'm assuming it ultimately depends on the capabilities of the underlying GUI system, but let's assume at least Windows XP / Mac OS X) If so, how does one accomplish…
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