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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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GUI not working after rewriting to MVC

I'm practicing MVC style programming. I have a Mastermind game in a single file, working fine (maybe apart of the fact that "Check" button is invisible at start). http://paste.pocoo.org/show/226726/ But when I've rewritten it to model, view,…
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How to best position Swing GUIs?

In another thread I stated that I liked to center my GUIs by doing something like this: JFrame frame = new JFrame("Foo"); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.getContentPane().add(new…
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What GUI libraries are the JetBrains using?

Background I am somewhat new to Java and am enjoying using IntelliJ IDE developed by the JetBrains team. I have downloaded the source for the Community Edition, and I am trying to work out what GUI libraries they are using to get the…
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How can I add a hint text to WPF textbox?

For example, Facebook has a "Search" hint text in the Search text box when the textbox is empty. How to achieve this with WPF text boxes??
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Vertical align with Tailwind CSS across full screen div

How can I vertically align a div with Tailwind? What I want: ----------------------------------- | | | | | | | item1 | | …
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Difference between validate(), revalidate() and invalidate() in Swing GUI

Swing components have multiple methods related to updates of screen layout, in particular: validate() invalidate() revalidate() The Java documentation defines these somewhat from a technical perspective, but it's not particularly clear how they…
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Newline in JLabel

How can I display a newline in JLabel? For example, if I wanted: Hello World! blahblahblah This is what I have right now: JLabel l = new JLabel("Hello World!\nblahblahblah", SwingConstants.CENTER); This is what is displayed: Hello…
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How to crop circular area from bitmap in Android

I have a bitmap and I want to crop a circular region from this bitmap. All pixels outside the circle should be transparent. How can I do this?
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Padding doesn't affect in an XML Layout

I am trying to set padding in a declared within an XML file/layout. But whatever I set, nothing changes related to padding. If I modify any other properties, I see the effects on the UI. But it doesn't work with padding. Could you please…
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What is the need of JSF, when UI can be achieved with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and AngularJS

I was reading about JSF that it's a UI framework and provides some UI components. But how is it better or different from number of components that are available from jQueryUI, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Svelte, ExtJS, or even plain HTML, CSS and…
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Hand Coded GUI Versus Qt Designer GUI

I'm spending these holidays learning to write Qt applications. I was reading about Qt Designer just a few hours ago, which made me wonder : what do people writing real world applications in Qt use to design their GUIs? In fact, how do people design…
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What's dp (density independent pixels) units with CSS?

For Android, people recommend using dp (density independent pixels) measurements for UI elements, and there are conventions that exist such as using 48dp for a button height, etc. I'm working on a web application, and I'm getting a lot of criticism…
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What's the best UI for entering date of birth?

What is the best method for date of birth selector? 3 text inputs (month / day / year) or one mask input. User MUST use keyboard 3 select boxes. User can use keyboard or mouse. One nice datepicker. I want to know what is the most usable and…
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Is there a visual profiler for Python?

I use cProfile now but I find it tedious to write pstats code just to query the statistics data. I'm looking for a visual tool that shows me what my Python code is doing in terms of CPU time and memory allocation. Some examples from the Java world…
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How to make PHPStorm collapsing all methods/functions on file open?

How to make something like this? (all methods collapsed by default without any hotkeys)
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