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How should I set up the listener service for a dynamic user interface?
So I'm working on a project and I'm running into conceptual problems in creating my user interface. It's for a DirectX11 multi-monitor game I'm writing. I've got a prototype working, with entity ...
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Design Pattern for asking users for clarification with one of multiple UI types
I am working on a program that has several frontends. The main application has a GUI that allows a lot of manual user interaction. The second one is more like a script that just runs a default work ...
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What kinds of patterns are ideal for driving complex user interface workflows?
I'm developing a very complex wizard-style application similar to tax preparation software. The user is guided through many screens, each asking for some piece of data. Different answers lead the user ...
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UI Design patterns for non-screen based project
I'm working on a small project coded in Python that uses a single button for input and a RGB LED as feedback, which responds to button presses and asynchronous events from the network. As the ...
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What principle is violated by having a button do two radically different things or screens act radically different depending on the situation
I've come upon a situation several times in my career when previous developers have done something funny. They will make a control (button) function radically different depending on how the screen ...
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How can I put multiple hierarchical forms in a single web page and avoid making it a mess?
We are a group of developers working on a web application that accepts forms filled and sent by our users and present it in an overall view. Our main form view looks like this: There are multiple ...
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Where and how to reference composite MVP components?
I am learning about the MVP (Model-View-Presenter) Passive View flavour of MVC. I intend to expose events from view interfaces rather than using the observer pattern to remove explicit coupling with ...
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NCurses, scrolling of multiline items, "current item" pointer and "selected items"
I am looking for hints/ideas for the best (most effective) way on how to scroll multi-line items as well as emphasizing of the "current item" and "selected items" such as: 1 FOO ITEM 1 Foo sub-item ...
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Design pattern for overlapping actions and animations?
Is there a design pattern for dealing with overlapping UI actions and animations? A few examples: Let's say I have an interactive table row that expands to reveal an extra control when the user clicks ...
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How to conceptually consider and implement user interface rules for numerous controls and data inputs?
I have a user interface with numerous controls and data inputs on it. Buttons, text fields, and checkboxes, etc. Imagine the following "rules" exist for a sample UI with 2 of those controls: ...
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What design pattern (in python) to use for properly separate runtime infos with core code?
I am not sure if this is a clear question. I work on a python project that is based on terminal(console), for which I am planning to implement a GUI. I am not major in CS so I really have no idea ...
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Creating an account to receive sensitive information on a mobile device
I am developing an Android application for my final year project which allows the holder of a mobile device to receive a text notification containing potentially sensitive information from a server. ...
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