Questions tagged [gui]
In computing a graphical user interface (GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and office equipment.
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Multi processing or multi threading for pywinauto?
I am trying to automate an old GUI tool which requires filling in some data from a CSV and selecting appropriate tree item values based on it. I need to do this in multiple instances of the ...
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TCL/Tk: Why is it an error for a window/widget's name to start with an uppercase letter?
I was going to ask this on Stack Overflow, but after doing some reading, I guess history questions are considered off-topic there and should be asked here instead? Anyway, as to the question:
Perhaps ...
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Tracking data change in GUI form
Problem: our application allows users to close a form window after certain changes without any confirmation, instead of pressing the Save button. This makes them complain they have to start afresh.
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Avoiding instanceofs with GUI composites
I have a stack of custom Row widgets. Each of them is a label with some editComponent (often a JTextComponent). Rows are aware of their previous and next siblings (if a Row has no such sibling, the ...
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How are applications where any command can be run CLI, but also has a UI element, structured?
Sorry if the title sounds too broad, I'll try to clarify. I am trying to understand the structure of applications that have a GUI, but any action can also be run from a CLI (either integrated in the ...
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How do you update a GUI table after DB ops?
I have a DAO that removes rows from a DB table. I have a GUI table representing some of those rows that passes user requests for deletion to that DAO
How should I update the GUI table?
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Flow of data in GUI apps
When syncing data between different levels in Swing (or any GUI project, for that matter), what is the right flow of data in that sync chain? Like so?
DB -> Model -> UI
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Is it a good approach to encapsulate View and Model inside a dedicated Widget?
Lets say you have a ItemView and a ItemModel.
Would it make sense to have a ItemWidget encapsulating those two, so code using ItemWidget don’t have to deal with ItemView and a ItemModel specifics?
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What was the first company to make a drag-and-drop GUI designer like Visual Basic?
When Visual Basic came out, it was revolutionary for its drag-and-drop GUI designer, allowing users to quickly create GUI programs. This video shows Bill Gates introducing it in 1991. Did drag-and-...
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How are windows at program startup called?
Often, when a program is starting it shows a modal window which has program logo, copyright information etc. For example, NetBeans shows the following window at startup:
Could anyone say how such ...
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development environment for C++ GUI applications
I am currently developing some C++ GUI application using wxWidgets (although the GUI framework doesn't really matter here) and thus far have been developing this on my own, which was working well. ...
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MVC: Should View get strings of GUI components directly or should the controller pass strings to View?
I have an MVC application in Java with GUI components in a View class. The GUI has to support two languages, so texts on buttons etc. depend on which language was set at start up. Strings are in ....
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What is a Reactive User Interface? Where did the term come from?
I heard about Reactive User Interfaces in a React course. I would like to understand the concept, but was unable to find reliable sources. Best I could find is that they are some sort of declarative ...
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How do you achieve encapsulation while "separating view and business logic"?
I've been trying to get a better understanding of OOP (I'm not the biggest fan of it, but I still want to understand it).
One of the core principles of OOP is encapsulation - you're supposed to ...
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How does Matplotlib / other GUIs work to draw the individual pixels?
So I wondered how matplotlib (or equivalents) makes graphics appear on your screen.
I found that matplotlib does not do the drawing itself; instead it is built on TKinter, which is built on TK, which ...
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