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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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Custom titlebars/chrome in a WinForms app

I'm almost certain I know the answer to this question, but I'm hoping there's something I've overlooked. Certain applications seem to have the Vista Aero look and feel to their caption bars and buttons even when running on Windows XP. (Google Chrome…
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"htop" style gui with python, how?

I am intersted in building some text based GUIs, things that look like the terminal, but has functions like selecting rows and performing actions. You know, things like htop and atop, ex: Any resource on that?
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Unicode characters not showing in System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

These characters show fine when I cut-and-paste them here from the VisualStudio debugger, but both in the debugger, and in the TextBox where I am trying to display this text, it just shows squares. 说明\r\n海流受季风影响，3-9 月份其流向主要向北，流速为2 节，有时达3 节；10 月至次年4…
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Is "tip-of-the-day" good?

Many programs (often large ones, like MS Office, The GIMP, Maxthon) have a feature called "tip-of-the-day". It explains a small part of the program, like this one in Maxthon: "You can hide/show the main menu bar by pressing Ctrl+F11" You can usually…
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Is there a browser agnostic way to increase a checkbox's size without changing HTML markup?

Is there a browser agnostic way to increase a 's size without changing HTML markup ? I tried to change height and width in the CSS but the problems is that in Firefox the checkbox gets pixelated. In Opera only the logic size…
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Javafx adding ActionListener to button

button.setOnAction(new EventHandler() { @Override public void handle(ActionEvent e) { label.setText("Accepted"); } }); In the code above we are defining what will happen when we press the button. This is all good but I…
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iPad slidable panel control like twitter

What would be the mechanism behind twitter iPad application? I feel its having split viewcontroller, viewcontrollers with animation and gesture controls, or there may be scrollviews for endless scrolling. How can I develop same UI for my…
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How do I retrofit a GUI to an existing C program?

I've been working on a project of porting an old solaris CL program to run on Linux, and barring some unrelated hardware issues, that's finished. Now I want a GUI for it, so the user can choose among the various options with drop downs and check…
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how to write a desktop application which uses HTML and CSS for user interface and python/perl/c++/java for the processing?

Different languages have different GUI toolkits, but it looks very difficult to achieve attractive user interfaces as good as we can using HTML and CSS with less effort. I don't do my application in javascript as I doubt if it has all the required…
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UITest color of a label (not UI label)

Here is a pic of the table I'm working with. I'm just trying to get the color of "requested" (gray) or "draft" (orange). I'm able to get the actual string of "requested" or "draft" by var timeSheetStatus = …
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Comprehensive tutorial for beginners on how to write Windows GUI programs

I'm trying to learn how to write Windows GUI* programs in C++, using Visual Studio 2008, but I haven't found any more comprehensive tutorial for beginners. The more comprehensive tutorials I have found are either only about how to make buttons,…
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Making UI for console application

How can I make an interface for console applications to make them look like edit.com under Microsoft's operating systems. Target languages are C, C++ and C#.NET.
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How to apply gradient to status bar in android?

Could anybody help me out with following image. As I have to apply gradient to status bar. I know to do only single color to status bar through them colorPimaryDark. As you can see in Image it shows same gradient in status bar as in verification…
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TimeZone Select field in Ruby on Rails

I want to output one of those select fields for the user to select their timezone. My User model saves the timezone as an integer in seconds. But I can change that if it's not practical. Something like this: