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Is filling the center-area of a GUI with several forms a good practice?
Center-area concept:
For a desktop application, we commonly find a similar structure for the GUI:
Top menu / Ribbon
Dockables left and right to explore the content and show properties.
Center-area ...
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How to present a tree in which objects may appear more than once?
I have a window showing a number of objects that can be individually hidden or recolored. Accordingly, in a sidebar each has a checkbox and a color swatch that launches a color picker when clicked:
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Problem with layout of features
I have a set of features that adjust style of the graphs. They set existance, colors and size of the element. I must be able to apply size and existance to all the graphs. But I don't want to apply ...
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Improve form design for more efficient editing/browsing through data
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I am asking for advice to properly redesign the GUI so user can have the best possible user experience.
Although I am generally satisfied how things turned out for entering data into ...
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Can not design window to be used both for inserting and reading data from database
I am working on a financial software which has a lot of data to be entered into database.
I have managed to design user interface for entering data on my own, and my employers are satisfied.
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Scaling an Address Form on Resize
My application has a form for filling in the names and addresses of a donor. Each donor gets a closable tab and each tab has an address form.
The problem is that the application runs in a regular ...
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How can I deal with too much blank space in a desktop application?
Usually people are concerned with too much data/interface, and not enough screen real estate, but I'm in the opposite situation.
The desktop application I'm working on has several tabs for entering ...
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Responsive web design technique in desktop application?
What do you think about using responsive web design techniques in a desktop application?
We need more space for large data and since all monitors today are widescreen, it could be good practice I ...
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How to let the user add and edit items in a ComboBox? (WinForms)
In my WinForms application there is a ComboBox with default values. The user should be able to add items to the ComboBox or rename existing items.
I want the design to be simplistic. This was my ...
