a menu bar with many items to perform common tasks in an application, often visible from the main window or all windows of an application.
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Use of tab bar and navigation bar in iPhone app
I'm developing an app that provides information about companies. I would like to have tab bar buttons for "Favorites" view and "Search" view. I also need tools for actions, for example in the ...
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Adding paging, sorting and filtering toolbars to a table
I have a bunch of report views, which essentially are tables. They should enable the user with sorting, paging and filtering capabilities.
My idea is to add those features via menu-bars.
Paging ...
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Opensource Icons for my app? [closed]
I'm working on an opensource project in C# which is basically a small desktop application in WinForms. What I need is a set of icons/images to add to the UI elements such as toolbars and command ...
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Desktop applications with no toolbars
I'm developing a brand new user interface for an old (20+-year) desktop application.
Commands have several ways that they can be accessed — main menu, context menu, keyboard shortcut, and a ...
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Toolbar buttons - to be or not to be?
I need to create a toolbar for my application, and let's assume that due to external constraints it must be a regular toolbar, not a ribbon. The application itself has a significant number of ...
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Replicated bars and menus consistency
So, using Google tonight I noted, in the results page, some links get duplicated among two bars, one anchored at the top, and a second one below the search box.
You can compare the initial page with ...
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Navigation toolbar design
I'm working on a new web page using a navigation toolbar at the top of the screen. There is an employee profile box on the left, certifications (if any for that employee) in the center of the toolbar ...
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Should action buttons be separate or part of a single toolbar?
This is a follow-up question from the previous question managing taxonomy hierarchies UI patterns.
Question: When an item in a list has action buttons that perform create/edit/delete actions, is ...
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Alternatives to Menu + Toolbar or Ribbon
The main application I'm working on has a very traditional (and boring) old school menu and toolbar, the toolbar indeed just a row of 16 small icons.
It has worked for us well over the years, but ...
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Separating actions on items from general actions in a toolbar
Rearranging an existing toolbar of ours, I would like to separate between types of action buttons.
General actions that applies to the system, e.g. Settings,
List actions that applies to the entire ...
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Organizing hidden commands in a customizable tool bar
We got a classic Windows tool bar with command buttons with icons. If you right click the toolbar you can choose Customize toolbar to open a dialog from where you can pick out the buttons to be shown ...
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Should I include all toolbar items inside menus?
An application I'm working on has a toolbar that doesn't have all of the buttons as commands inside the menus in the application. For me this feels quite awkward.
The Java Look and Feel Design ...
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Android: Action bar vs. Toolbar, Spinner vs. Dropdown
Is there any distinction between the key functionality of Android controls: Action bar vs. Toolbar, Spinner vs. Dropdown. To me they seem to be the same and I wonder if there is a reason of ...
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Transparent background toolbar - how to give it attention, but not too much
I am building an ipad application.
In my application I show images.
I've got a toolbar that contains basic abilities like sharing, shopping etc.
I want my toolbar to be an anchor point throughout the ...
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Is it still preferred/acceptable to right-align the Help menu in Windows applications?
Back when I first learned Windows GUI programming, it seemed very common to right-align the Help menu in applications.
It seems this is no longer the norm in all of the Windows applications I ...
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Toolbar of digital signatures
Where I work, we have one of our systems in a web viewer for PDF files signed with the extension ". P7s."
We are doing a toolbar similar to the adobe reader (picture below). The panel is also of ...
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An icon that represents “End Game” in iPhone app [closed]
I'm stumped. I would like to have an icon in the toolbar that represents "End Game". My app is a scorekeeping app, and when the user wants to end the game and start with a fresh scoreboard, they would ...
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Animation with a vertical Toolbar?
We have a web mapping application (Flex), that our clients can use from anywhere between 10min to 5hrs a day.
It is simulating a desktop application (think similar to Photoshop) and users select from ...
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Navigation bar and Toolbar in ipad app at top of screen - apple's approval?
I'm a newbie. I have got a wire frame for ipad application, in which navigation bar and tool bars are placed on the top. And back button is placed in toolbar. Whether it violates apple's guidelines or ...
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Ordering actions in a toolbar
I'm building wireframes for a checkout/cart system. Based on the state of the cart, I have two toolbars within the item listings The actions are:
Save for later, Remove, Edit
Remove, Email When ...
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What is the best way to display per-tab commands or actions?
I am working on a multiple document interface Windows application. We're using tabs to represent open documents for editing.
I have three levels of possible commands:
Global
Per-tab
Per-sub-tab
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Toolbar at the bottom of the screen
In IE in Windows 8, the toolbar/addressbar in Internet Explorer is at the bottom of the screen. Is there any research or study that supports this kind of layout?
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Does sinking part of a toolbar help split it into separate functional parts?
For a product just shipped, I needed to separate a single horizontal toolbar into 2 distinct parts: the first for file operations, the second for editing/navigation operations.
Because I added the ...
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Interface for image editor app with many tools for small touchscreens?
I'm making an image editor app for phones with touchscreens. It will have tools that are similar to related desktop applications like brush, pencil, rubber, mask, smudge, crop, text etc. tools.
For a ...
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How many toolbars?
We're developing a desktop application for accountants and lawyers. One of its feature is document management.
There are several actions users can do about documents, so we are doubtful about how ...
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QuickBooks UI and (still on) buttons position criteria
My company is redesigning one of its accounting software.
Intuit's QuickBooks is something that be considered in the same market field, so I took a look at its UI.
Here is the invoice management:
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What examples are there of animated toolbar icons? [closed]
Are there applications (including web applications) that have animated toobar icons? I would imagine they would only animate on hover/mouse over, but I'd be interested to show someone this so we can ...
