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What properly goes into the “caption” of a message box?
By convention, what is the best practice for the text that goes into the "caption" field of a text box?
The "caption" field is the text that shows up in the title bar:
I have experimented with ...
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Is a cancel button necessary in a windows form?
After reading the question "Is a cancel button necessary for a web form?", I still ask myself, whether the same applies to a Windows form/dialog box.
Consider the following dialog box:
Compared to ...
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Are double tabs on the same level acceptable?
In my Windows application, I want to show the user some kind of map. The information displayed on this map can vary a lot, depending on filters set by the user. With these filters set, the user will ...
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What is the best way to communicate that certain functionality is currently unavailable in an application [duplicate]
Let's say there is some feature in an application (accessed via a button) that only becomes available once a number of criteria are met.
Off the top of my head, there are 3 options here:
Hide the ...
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Proper UI for Hierarchical Data Entry
I am developing a Windows Forms application to manage legal documents. Users will enter and modify information about these documents and much of this information is hierarchical. Documents have ...
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Legacy Text Interface (e.g. Telnet) to GUI [closed]
I work in a very large, established company with a consistent philosophy of, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The (large) division of the company that is responsible for maintaining customer ...
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Is there a generally accepted way of handling controls that are not the same size?
I am standardizing the spacing between controls in an existing winforms application.
(4px between rows)
The project uses telerik controls that cannot be resized.
The telerik datepicker is 20px high ...
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Best way for user to select data filters on a winforms/desktop ux?
We're doing some major changes into our existing layout for a Winforms (desktop) application.
This application has a report manager and every single report is run-time created from an XML (layout) ...
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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 ...
