UI

XAML

JavaScript – Events Bubbling – Illustrated

13 Nov 2023 by Mark Pelf

Tutorial on “Events Bubbling” in JavaScript language

Javascript

event

Integrate dynamic HTML pages in your Silverlight app

12 Apr 2013 by NightWizzard

...for example a WYSIWYG HTML editor to edit or display emails...

Fast and high quality Bitmap to icon converter

29 Jul 2013 by Ordiales

When no XP support is necessary. Better Icon structure arrises and easy conversion is allowed.

Stateful Screen Rendering on Little Devices

26 Feb 2023 by honey the codewitch

How to make very responsive, flicker free interactive screens without using a lot of memory

Calling Server Side function from Client Side Script

8 Jun 2012 by Pranay Rana

Calling Server Side function from Client Side Script

SOAP UI - Part 1 - Introduction

22 Jun 2012 by Jobless Creature

This is a article on SOAP UI. This is used for web service load testing

Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part I)

3 Sep 2012 by John Atten

Examination of a quick way to create more useful expandable groups in the .NET ListView control.

Basic WPF Way to Implement and Include Animation in XAML

5 May 2014 by Gerald Gomes

This article will make an attempt to describe a basic way to start implementing animation in WPF.

Drag&Drop HTML5/JS API Summary

25 Oct 2017 by Gerd Wagner

The HTML specification defines an event-based drag-and-drop (D&D) mechanism, which is supported by all current major browsers (including IE11 and iOS/Safari), except on Android. We show the minimum setup for a working D&D operation.

HTML5

Javascript

Drawing Formatted Text in a Windows Forms Application using WPF FormattedText Class

22 Aug 2012 by wborgsm

How to draw muliline formatted text on a System.Drawing.Graphics object.

c# Buttons: Show Message when mouse hovers over the button

22 Oct 2012 by User 9125307

I think this would be the perfect solution for you:private void ButtonName_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e) { System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip ToolTip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolTip(); ToolTip1.SetToolTip(this.button1, this.button1.Text); ...

user-controls

How to click/select Row in ASP.NET GridView or HTML Table

27 Jun 2012 by Technoses

The above code will slow down the browser and the browser can hang when Rows in Grid will be 10000 or above.Please view the below suggestion:CS Codeprotected void grvGroups_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e){ if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) { ...

VRT - Realtime HTML5 Data Visualization Application

11 Nov 2015 by Odd Marthon

A versatile visualization web browser application using standard web technologies.

ImageWallViewer

29 Dec 2017 by wim4you

Show UniformGrid and scroll through a few thousand images, UI virtualization

7 User Interface UI Principles

25 Jun 2020 by Adrian Pirvu

Basic principles in designing User Interface (UI / UX)

Give color to dialogs and buttons

9 Jun 2010 by CPallini

Sweety Khan wrote:Can we give a background or just a color to our dialogus in MFC?Yes, you may handle the WM_CTLCOLORDLG [^] message, see, for instance "Dialog FAQ".Sweety Khan wrote:Can we change the text color of buttons?In a similar way, handle the WM_CTLCOLORBTN message...

Configure Windows Service with UI

16 Jun 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I have developed some approach related to it.First of all, Windows Service cannot have UI. It should keep working when a user logs off and when nobody has logged in. It does not mean that the same assembly cannot be used it two modes: interactive and Windows Service.I've created WPF...

service

Creating JavaScript Tooltips Has Never Been This Easy

12 Sep 2013 by Nitij

This article demonstrates how to create JavaScript tooltips.

jQuery autocomplete custom styling

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Recently I have come across a situation where I need to customize the UI of jQuery UI autocomplete plugin. For reference I am adding the plugin

HTML

auto-complete

plugin

How do I create a UI for a WCF servie ?

21 Mar 2014 by Volynsky Alex

Hi eXterminatorrr!Generally speaking, you should be able to perform these activities :* Create client for the service (or add service refference, then client will be created automatically)* Consume your WCF service through client from GUI eg. example by this link : Create a WPF...

WCF

Using jQuery unobtrusive validation with Twitter Bootstrap

7 Nov 2015 by mnguyen88

This is an alternative for "Using the jQuery unobtrusive validator with Twitter Bootstrap tooltips"

OpenGL in Python with TKinter

25 Jan 2016 by Samuel Teixeira

Why simple if we can be complex?

Google Map, JQuery, AngularJS Address Form autocomplete and geocoder

24 Jan 2016 by lakhdarr

Control and directives for address form auto completion using Google map V3 and JQuery/AngularJS

A Drag and Drop ListLauncher with fold-able Groups

3 Mar 2017 by wim4you

Launch additionally a limited number of hand picked Programs, Documents or Folders from the taskbar

.NET Core UI using Webviews

30 Nov 2019 by Johannes Bildstein

Write cross platform desktop applications with .Net Core by using the OS native webview.

need help for a simple mfc program

28 Apr 2010 by Richard MacCutchan

Why not use a user drawn button with the icon design on the button? That should give you access to all normal button interaction.

Disable close button in dialog

29 May 2010 by Nuri Ismail

Here is an example for you that will enable/disable the close button in runtime:BOOL bEnable = FALSE; // TRUE to enable and FALSE to disable//.....UINT nMenuf = bEnable ? (MF_BYCOMMAND) : (MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_GRAYED | MF_DISABLED);CMenu* pSysMenu =...

C# Committing Textbox changes when events don't fire

23 Mar 2011 by Eduard Keilholz

Have you tried the Validating event rather then the Validated event?

forms

How to Bind Derived Type in MVC View

9 May 2013 by Abhay@Accenture

How to bind Derived Type in MVC View

Kendo UI: Implementing a Grid Widget

14 Jun 2013 by ShubhamSaxena

Learn how to implement Kendo Grid.

WebForms

Telerik

Make an MVC Application into a SPA with AJAX and History.js

13 Apr 2014 by Edson_Ferreira

This tip will demonstrate how to create a SPA using an MVC Application, AJAX and History.js

Drawing on an HTML Canvas

27 Apr 2014 by Dennis E White

Development of a jQuery plugin to be used to create and draw on a canvas element

Assorted MIDI Controls - MidiUI Part 2

14 Jul 2020 by honey the codewitch

Continuing our series with a knob control and a MIDI visualizer

How do I change main menu in application dynamically?

29 Apr 2010 by #realJSOP

My experience is that users don't like it when controls (or menu items) appear and disappear while they're using the program. At the very most, they are just barely comfortable with items being disabled, but when things start disappearing/reappearing, they freak out. I'd rethink my interface if...

How to draw round button

11 May 2010 by «_Superman_»

There are some example articles here on CP -http://www.codeproject.com/KB/buttons/roundbuttons.aspx[^]http://www.codeproject.com/KB/buttons/CRoundButton2.aspx[^]

Best way to invalidate an area

15 May 2010 by Richard MacCutchan

23_444 wrote:I'm not convinced ... that WM_PAINT is firing for each call.You are correct, these calls tend to get collected together and then the app gets a single WM_PAINT message for an accumulation of more than one of the invalidated regions. As to the advantages of doing it this way,...

GDI

Clear textboxes in a dialog

14 Jun 2010 by Henry Minute

If your login form verifies the user and password then simply set myUserIDTextBox.Text = ""; etc after verification but before closing/hiding the login form.If the login form simply passes the UserID and Password to the main form for verification then store the information in private...

Find problem in displaying an image to another dialog using MFC

5 Jul 2010 by Sauro Viti

On the color filter button click handler, add code to show the color filter dialog as modal; then on the OK button click handler of your color filter dialog call EndDialog(IDOK), and back on the filter button click handler show the modiied bitmap:// On your color filter dialogclass...

Design

Using WPF UI Automation with PowerShell

20 Sep 2010 by Uros Calakovic

I encountered a problem while trying to use WPF UI Automation with PowerShell - PowerShell reported incorrect type for automation elements

PowerShell

SharePoint 2010 Master Page Customizations Through Code

28 Sep 2010 by Oddleif Halvorsen

Ever been in a situation where you need to modify a SharePoint master page, but really would like not having to create a custom master page? It can be done. Sure, this depends on the amount of customizations, but in a lot of situations you can do what you need from code.

Creating Control in non UI thread

1 Oct 2010 by Abhinav S

Cross thread communication is indeed possible.Have a look here[^] and here[^].

Disable Child Controls Recursively

13 Nov 2010 by jarvisa

public void ControlStatus(Control control, bool isDisable){ foreach (Control c in control.Controls) if (c.HasControls()) ControlStatus(c, isDisable); else { WebControl wc = c as WebControl; if (wc != null) ...

Tweak CMFCVisualManager to alter hidden panes appearance

2 Feb 2011 by Eugen Podsypalnikov

Just add the following line:CMFCAutoHideButton::m_bOverlappingTabs = FALSE;at the end of your CMainFrame::OnCreate(..) :)

Configure Windows Service with UI

16 Jun 2011 by #realJSOP

A service can't have a UI. You have to do like SA said - create a separate app (that lives in the system tray) that can communicate with and control the service.

service

Custom Expandable ListView

16 Jan 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Thank you for compliance and clarification of the question (I up-voted it). It's the best to modify the question itself and leave the notification in a comment. You should also tag the UI library, for your own good. Please see my last comment to the question. There are some commercial...

.NET4

WinForms

ListView

Transfer data across thread borders

30 Jan 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

You cannot attach any data to EventWaitHandle. I think you have no idea about the purpose of even wait handles. You code is a strange mixture of events thread synchronization primitives and and does not seem reasonable at all. Using "-=" operators on the invocation list of an event instance is...

forms

Update the UI from another thread makes the app runs very slow

28 Feb 2012 by E.F. Nijboer

If you update the ProgressBar on every byte handled then it will indeed be very slow. Calls to UI elements are very expensive to a certain degree which will become very noticeable when called very often (also because the call needs to be invoked into the user thread). A simple way is to check if...

What Would a Good Single Word Term Be For This?

2 Jul 2012 by #realJSOP

I'm developing something akin to an ad-hoc query interface, and in this UI, the user is allowed to select AND or OR to add more conditions to the query.What would you call this column? I'm using "Continuation", but I'm interested in finding a better 9and possibly shorter) word to use in its...

Design

Postmessages from function inside workerthread to UI

8 Oct 2012 by nv3

I am not sure that I understood your question correctly. You might want to let Windows do the synchronization for you and use SendMessage from your worker thread to send display messages to your UI thread. The sending thread will be synchronized with the receiving thread by Windows. But be aware...

recognize click event on UserControl (c#)

14 Oct 2012 by Curtdawg123

You can use thispublic void main(){ pictureBox.Click += new EventHandler(pictureBox_Click);}public void pictureBox_Click(object obj, EventArgs ea){ // This get executed if the pictureBox gets clicked}

user-controls

Resize iframe when it is open

7 Nov 2012 by jim lahey

See the following discussion on StackOverflow:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153152/resizing-an-iframe-based-on-content[^]

ASP.NET

Provide Html.LabelFor Value for Model Fields from Database at Runtime

7 Nov 2012 by Aydin Khatamneajd

Using ModelMetadataProvider to Set Display Name Metadata for the Model Fields at Runtime

A simple ticker with jQuery

19 Nov 2012 by Raghav Nayak

Simple vertical scroller.

Adding multiple controls into flow panel on non-ui thread in vb.net?

19 Dec 2012 by Adam R Harris

You are going to have to create a delegate to add the controls for you, something like this:** assuming your flow control is called 'flow' private delegate sub delAddControl(ctrl as Control) private sub AddControl(ctrl as Control) if (flow.InvokeRequired) then ...

user-controls

Using PhoneGap in Windows Store Applications

14 Jan 2013 by Mihail Mateev

In this article you will learn about how to use PhoneGap with the new cutting edge Microsoft platform – Windows 8

Enabling full-keyboard-access behaviour programmatically

2 Apr 2013 by Bernhard Häussermann

Shows how to programmatically enable full-keyboard-access tabbing behaviour in your Mac OS X application.

Objective-C

Dev

What factors control dialog button appearance?

13 Apr 2013 by Santhosh G_

Please add the following compiler directive to specify manifest file attributes.#if defined _M_IX86#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df'...

Win32

Build Calendar App for Windows 8 with dhtmlxScheduler

31 May 2013 by Stas Wolski

This tutorial describes how to create a basic Google-like event calendar app for Windows 8.

Slow running Process that might require user interaction

9 Aug 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Please see my comments to the question.One approach alternative to the BackgroundWorker is using preliminary created thread, created through the constructor, which you can keep sleeping (wasting no CPU time for that, of course) and activate when the task is fed to it. This is a really good...

Multiple usercontrol on webpage

9 Nov 2013 by Nelek

Step 1) Do a little research. Google is a good start pointStep 2) Start codingStep 3) Compile and use the debug to solve little issuesStep 4) When you get a problem you don't know how to solve but at least you tried it, then come back and ask for something concrete with a snippet of the...

ASP.NET

Simple Bitmap Buttons for WinForm Applications

6 May 2014 by Daniel Lieberwirth (BrainInBlack)

This describes a simple way to create interactive, bitmap based, buttons for WinForm applications.

NUI Wars Part 1: Overview

3 Feb 2015 by Vangos Pterneas

Natural User Interfaces make some serious buzz these days – not without a reason. Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) literally change the way people interact with computers. They create new patterns, new means of communication, and new business opportunities. We can now play football without a con

Kinect

How to develop a UI in Qt for a C program

6 Sep 2015 by TheHumbleGuy

Hi,first of all -> Qt is C++Qt supports different variants of UI implementation. QWidget-based and QtQuick-based. If you create a basic desktop application i would recommend the QWidget based way.Its probably the best to start with a small example to understand the basic concept of...

How do I embed a particular style into .ui file in Qt?

11 Nov 2015 by Jochen Arndt

Such styles are usually applied on application level and not on widgets.At first you should decide which kind of styling you want use (style sheets or setting styles by code). They can be mixed but it is not recommended. This link may help you with the decision:...

Creating dynamic data entry user interfaces in C#

18 Apr 2016 by F-ES Sitecore

It doesn't really matter, but MVC is the more modern technology however it'll require you to understand web concepts better, whereas webforms hides a lot of the implementation details from you making it easier to use in some instances. Seeing as you don't seem to know either technology it'll...

Visual-Studio

ASP.NET

How to update progressbar using tasks in C#?

18 May 2016 by Richard Deeming

The ProgressBar control[^] has built-in support for showing indeterminate progress - just set the Style property[^] to ProgressBarStyle.Marquee:oi1ProgressStatus.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;await Task.Run(() =>{ BaseParameters.ErrorBag.Clear(); if...

TPL

Copy a GL Texture to Another GL Texture or to a GL Pixel Buffer and from a GL Pixel Buffer

13 Oct 2018 by Steffen Ploetz

How to use GL's pixel buffer object (PBO) to copy one texture to another

Guarantee Correct Spacing for toolbar Separators on Multiple TB_ADDBUTTONS Calls

15 Jan 2020 by Steffen Ploetz

A solution for: If the toolbar is created button by button with single TB_ADDBUTTONS calls, the width of the separators is not calculated correctly.

Survival game issues

3 Mar 2021 by Chris Copeland

i've tried reading over it a few times but i cant see the issue. I don't think you have read over it a few times as the error is quite clear. Your code is trying to find a field called ThirstSlider but the field is clearly named incorrectly:...

Message of "2 out of 5" using Progress Bar

3 May 2010 by Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

There's not many articles under the progress bar section of codeproject, but this article has a progress bar with text on it:How long is this process going to take?[^]You can adapt that to your heart's content.DavidCrow is a very reliable programmer, so it should be good code!Iain.

Search string in dataGridView and select the string

3 May 2010 by Ankur^\m/

Check this[^].The link will teach you something very interesting as well. :)

Restrict Dialog Box to be within Application Boundaries

5 May 2010 by CPallini

You may find this DavidCrow's article [^] helpful. :)

Exception in MFC dialog message handler

13 May 2010 by Sauro Viti

Just replace:m_txtImageCtrl.SetWindowText( _T("0/0" ));with:if (::IsWindow(m_txtImageCtrl.m_hWnd)) m_txtImageCtrl.SetWindowText( _T( "0/0" ));

Using BCGControlBar library in VC6, IntelliSense not working

13 May 2010 by s373785346

I have installed BCGControlBar and run its wizards normally, my IDE is VC6.0. The problem is that when use any class of BCGControlBar, it's not intelligent. For example, where declare one variable like this:CBCGPButton m_bcgButton; when input one dot after m_bcgButton it shows nothing, why?...

VC6

Best way to invalidate an area

14 May 2010 by 23_444

I need to invalidate different areas on a screen at the same time (occurring in the same function).I could invoke the InvalidateRect(&rc) for each area:InvalidateRect(&rc);InvalidateRect(&rc2);or I could create a region and add the rectangles to the region and then use...

GDI

Need help creating a pie chart in MFC

14 May 2010 by Maximilien

Your question is not clear; What do you mean by:Druks wrote:so that the pie chart will be drawn from a file or even a dialogAre you meaning you want to get the data from a file or some user input from a dialog ?Do the different article and sample of Pie Charts posted on CodeProject...

chart

Problem displaying modal child dialogs

18 May 2010 by Jeson.DJ

My project is a MFC project based on dialogs. The class name of my parent dialog is CdialogchangDlg and my child dialogs are CPicture2 and CPicture3. I can access my child dialogs. Now I want to go to another child dialog from one child dialog, I use buttons to do this.The code is:void...

Draw over desktop without flickering

18 May 2010 by xspitfirexx

I am working on a mouse gesture recogniser and I am pressing right click and drawing with pencil tool all over my desktop. When I release it the drawing is still there and I need to use InvalidateRect() function to remove it. But it flickers like when you press Refresh. Is there a way to...

Windows

GDI

Problem displaying modal child dialogs

18 May 2010 by Chris Meech

You are just filling the stack up with CPicture2 and CPicture3 dialogs. Eventually you will run out of resources. I would recommend that instead of switching from child to child, have the parent create modeless dialogs instead. :)

Disable close button in dialog

7 Dec 2018 by vivek.chauhan2009

Hi,how to disabled close button in a simple dialog?ThanksVivek chauhan

Change color of row in CListCtrl

2 Jun 2010 by mikhil10

Hi friends, I am using CListCtrl with check boxes in my code. I want to change the color of row if its check box is checked. I have tried using function SetTextBkColor on 'OnClickLstdata' event but it changes color of all inserted rows. Please provide the solution. Thanks... :)

How to post mouse events to a process?

2 Jun 2010 by #realJSOP

First, you need a handle to the target application's main window. This is much easier to achieve if your application launches the target application interally (using the Process object). After you get the window handle, you can send the window any Windows message that you wish.BTW, if...

Windows

How to implement hint edit?

6 Jun 2010 by Niklas L

If you mean a light gray text saying what a field is used for when nothing is entered, you need to subclass the edit control and respond to WM_PAINT. Check if your control is empty and if so write a message in the client area using a light color.

VC6

How to use DHTML in ATL/WTL application

8 Jun 2010 by enowy

Hi everyone.I have plan to make new desktop application based on ATL/WTL. From now on I want to use DHTML UI in this project (for example like CDHtmlDialog of MFC).How to use DHTML UI in this project (I can not use MFC in this project).Thank you.

WTL

ATL

Clear textboxes in a dialog

14 Jun 2010 by isantosh85

I have created a web phone project. When I log in then I get a new window with logout button. My login window has two textboxes. When I log out then I get the login window but the previous information is present in that text box. How can I get the clear text boxes after logout click in my...

Clear textboxes in a dialog

14 Jun 2010 by Sauro Viti

On is answer, Henry wrote myUserIDTextBox.Text = "";That's is right if you are using C++/clr (i.e. managed C++). If you are writing your application as native you can write myUserIDTextBox.SetWindowText(_T(""));

Hiding toolbar in SDI

15 Jun 2010 by Sauro Viti

Remove the WS_VISIBLE style constant from the styles passes to the call to Create.

Get selected item in treeview

15 Jun 2010 by koropatva

I have a program written in C++ with WinApi functions (I am not using MFC). In this program I have a treeview (elements can be added or deleted) and I want to solve a problem: I want to know exactly which item was selected. Please help. Example:+Color -Red -Blue+Ground -sldfs...

Windows

Win32

Creating Control in non UI thread

4 Oct 2010 by Heinzzy

this code create and add a button either in UI or background threadpublic partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } public void CreatingControl() { if (this.InvokeRequired) ...

Disable Child Controls Recursively

13 Nov 2010 by PSU Steve

You can just use "not IsDisable" versus the IF...ELSE block. Additionally, the recursive call to ControlStatus should be done all the time so that the parent control is enabled/disabled along with the children. // to enable\disable the control & its child controls public...

MDI Alternative

2 Jan 2011 by Abhinav S

You can always create new tabs if you want to avoid MDI forms.Just as an example, Internet Explorer or other browsers support multiple tabs and many tabs can be opened together.Note: Having tabs and MDI's together might be a little confusing to the user anyway.