GUI Programming advanced apps
So ive been trying to build a stock broker app on wpf. I am sufficient in c# and only that(3 years). So the UI part has been really annoying and frustrating.
Why doesn’t Microsoft release UX frameworks to build UI’s like their current UIs?
When I started learning programming with the .NET framework, I started by using WinForms as a UI technology. It uses “classic” menus just like this office 2000:
A few years later Office 2007 was released, the ribbon was born:
And even some years later Office 2010 was released, which also added new features like the stage:
A few days ago Office 15 preview was released and they added more fancy new stuff:
That’s huge progress IMO, but why don’t they enable the developers to build UI’s like them? When I have a look at .NET, there’s still no way to build a ribbon. Even with WPF, which is highly extensible, there are no premade controls. So the community has started several projects to create all those “features”. I know, today Microsoft has released a ribbon for WinForms and WPF, but that’s still not part of any core framework (not even the 4.5 one). But this is not limited to .NET as far as I know? Today there are still no APIs for unmanaged applications to create those ribbon UI’s?!
Need some advice on CLI design, I need to provide simple but powerful command line options
I am writing a utility that runs on RHEL5 command line. I need my command line options to be simple but powerful. I looked at the various UNIX utilities to get an idea of how simple command line utilities have to be. Do you guys suggest any documents/links that talk about command line etiquette? I am modelling my utility on top of LVM (that’s all the info I can give for now). I know it’s a software engineering question, but I thought it would be appropriate to post here. Please advise….
Most recent vs Most used [closed]
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How should a website validate a users mailing address?
This is for a site that relies on shipping items via UPS or FedEx. I know there is software out there that does it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_Accuracy_Support_System), but if you are trying to build your own solution for a simple website.
Are there any programming fonts with oldstyle figures? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
Is it a good idea to design an architecture thinking that the User Interface classes can be replaced by a command line interface?
In Code Complete page 25, it’s said that it’s a good idea to be able to easily replace the regular user interface classes by a command line one.
Desktop application, dependency injection
I am thinking of applying a real dependency injection library to my toy C#/GTK# desktop application. I chose NInject, but I think this is irrelevant to my question.
What data structure could a word processor use to map the user’s caret position/text selection to its internal representation of the document?
Word processors (e.g. Microsoft Word) display documents to the user as styled text. The user can select a part of this text and apply styles to it, and edit the text.
Object locking over Internet
I am building a tutoring application that can be used to draw objects and then one is able to drag them around. I would like to know what is the best thing to do when someone clicks on an object and starts to drag it.